HELLO!
The forums are back early, I see! Welcome back, all previous participants! Welcome, newbies!
I'm your ML, Jha / Jaymee Goh, and I will be handling all Halifax events - again! If you need me, my contact is as follows:
e-mail: jhameia(dot)goh(at)gmail(dot)com
MSN: catts_o_catti(at)hotmail.com
Some housekeeping:
Most of our meetups, write-ins and parties will be held at Paperchase Cafe, 5228 Blowers St., unless I say / we vote otherwise. Ordinarily, I'd tell you that Google Maps is your friend, but I am wired from drinking Coke today, so I will tell you how to get there, right now!
Go down Spring Garden Rd towards Barrington.
After the Public Library, turn left (this is Grafton St.)
Take the first right down (this is now Blowers St. and you are passing the infamous Pizza Corner).
Walk down. Paperchase is right after I Love Sushi, and the cafe is upstairs.
The fabulous Aisha who runs the cafe has agreed to give us a 10% discount for NaNoWriMo (this is food and beverages) - if anybody has a colour printer and knows how to muck with graphics and cardstock, I could use your help printing cards so we can flash 'em to the staff for discounts.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2PM, is our first NaNo meetup since last year! WOO! It is our PRE-Pre-NaNo party. If you can't make it, DON'T FRET! We'll have a Pre-NaNo party in October!
We generally have write-ins every Saturday or Sunday, where we bring in our laptops and plonk ourselves in the 'Chase for a few hours just writing and taking in the excellent atmosphere and drinking our 10%-off food and drinks. I highly recommend coming out to these things, because they are fun and the writerly life can be solitary and sad, so these write-ins make it significantly less so!
If you have LiveJournal, my username is fantasyecho and I post NaNo event details on there. Event details can also be found on our Halifax NaNoWriMo Google calendar! Let me know if the link doesn't work.
SO!
Who's back? Who's new? What're you going to be writing this year? ARE YOU PSYCHED?
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Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
50 Stories; 1,000 words each... will I survive?
Current story:
0 / 50,000
Sep 27, 2008 - 18 49
*honk*
15,517 / 50,000
Sep 27, 2008 - 19 48
Yup, I'll be there!
6,244 / 50,000
Sep 27, 2008 - 20 11
I am the infamous you-cannot-remember-my-name girl, Jha. Now try. This'll be my third year in a row and it offends my poor old Mum you can't remember the name she gave me... :P /will stop bad joking now.
Won't be at the party thing... forgot about it, but, yes, I'm back. WHOO.
----------'Now the ring's in the pawnshop, the rain's in the hole/Down at the five points I stand/I'll lose everything, but I'll never let go of your hand' - "Never Let Go" - Tom Waits.
51,287 / 50,000
Sep 27, 2008 - 20 28
OMG IT'S THE GIRL I KEEP MISTAKING FOR A PREVIOUS YEAR'S PARTICIPANT WHO I ACTUALLY HAVE ON MSN. She laffed at meh when I told her about this. XD
I'll get your name eventually! Third year? Really? I remember meeting you at last year's meetups, but not the year before's! Maybe my brain is going...
----------Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
50 Stories; 1,000 words each... will I survive?
Current story:
8,537 / 50,000
Sep 28, 2008 - 00 39
I have TWO advantages this year over all my previous fruitless attempts to get beyond, say, 5k at the most:
1. I have acquired a LAPTOP. If you recall my stellar performances last year using nothing but paper and pen while pitted against fingers thirty years nimbler than mine in a titanic struggle the likes of which haven't been seen since John Henry was a steel-drivin' man, you will ALL be trembling in terrified anticipation of our next SPEED ROUND challenge...
2. I am on SABBATICAL this year. This means I can actually devote more than seventeen seconds of my day (at random intervals) to the crafting of well-crafted, zaftig prose...
Extra points if you DIDN'T need to look up the meaning of 'zaftig'... [GRIN] A gold star on your term report if you can cite the first novel you encountered 'zaftig' in [for me it was Robert Heinlein's JOB].
In short, I'm psyched up, just like Charlie Brown at the beginning of baseball season -- or when he takes his kite out for the first time in March... or when he takes careful aim to kick that football Lucy is holding so firmly some twenty yards in front of him
702 / 50,000
Sep 28, 2008 - 06 04
I will be there. With bells on.
51,287 / 50,000
Sep 28, 2008 - 06 28
Hey John!
I KNOW I've seen "zaftig" before. I just can't remember where.
Mangsy, hi!
----------Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
50 Stories; 1,000 words each... will I survive?
Current story:
54,355 / 50,000
Sep 28, 2008 - 08 12
Hi everyone,
I hope you guys have a kick ass party....Unfortunately I won't be at any of the events this year in Halifax as i'm in seoul, korea.... But make good use of the paperchase and writes lots. I miss you guys!!!!!!!!!!
----------Dare To Dream
Dare To Believe
Dare To Be Different
Dare To Be Yourself
Dare To Make a Difference
51,287 / 50,000
Sep 28, 2008 - 09 19
We'll always have MSN, Eva! Come home soon!!
----------Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
50 Stories; 1,000 words each... will I survive?
Current story:
56,027 / 50,000
Sep 28, 2008 - 13 14
Yo! I can't wait to see you guys again! And I might actually have a laptop this year! ^,^
----------NaNoWriMo 2008:
PATCHWORK HEARTS - http://patchworkhearts.wordpress.com
51,287 / 50,000
Sep 28, 2008 - 13 24
Hey you! I was wondering where you were today!
You did Script Frenzy, didn't you? Did your brains explode?
----------Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
50 Stories; 1,000 words each... will I survive?
Current story:
6,244 / 50,000
Sep 28, 2008 - 16 19
I'll get your name eventually! Third year? Really? I remember meeting you at last year's meetups, but not the year before's! Maybe my brain is going...
I was there in '06, however I was a noob and very much the shy person.
Maybe the fourth year, you'll remember my name. (I'm VERY shocked; my preferred variation of my first name is short - as in, three letters short.)
----------'Now the ring's in the pawnshop, the rain's in the hole/Down at the five points I stand/I'll lose everything, but I'll never let go of your hand' - "Never Let Go" - Tom Waits.
51,287 / 50,000
Sep 28, 2008 - 16 31
I was there in '06, however I was a noob and very much the shy person.
Maybe the fourth year, you'll remember my name. (I'm VERY shocked; my preferred variation of my first name is short - as in, three letters short.)
Jen? Viv? Lis? Mel?
Yeah, I don't remember a lot of people's names. I forgot Katie's name today. I thought she was a Jen.
----------Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
50 Stories; 1,000 words each... will I survive?
Current story:
0 / 50,000
Sep 28, 2008 - 17 10
We could always start assigning three letters at random.
"I declare you to be Gzq!"
6,244 / 50,000
Sep 28, 2008 - 18 43
"I declare you to be Gzq!"
There is water all over my monitor now. Gee, thanks.
(Also, I'm stealing that for the next time someone annoys me.)
----------'Now the ring's in the pawnshop, the rain's in the hole/Down at the five points I stand/I'll lose everything, but I'll never let go of your hand' - "Never Let Go" - Tom Waits.
51,287 / 50,000
Sep 28, 2008 - 18 46
Now I want a randomly generated three-letter name too.
Hmmmm....
*smushes keyboard*
"sjr"
That works.
----------Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
50 Stories; 1,000 words each... will I survive?
Current story:
0 / 50,000
Sep 28, 2008 - 19 09
Despite what the smoke and crackling noises would have you think, even electronics get thirsty.
51,287 / 50,000
Sep 28, 2008 - 19 15
Patrick! Don't encourage the computers! Next they'll be demanding foodcrumbs!!
----------Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
50 Stories; 1,000 words each... will I survive?
Current story:
6,244 / 50,000
Sep 28, 2008 - 21 05
Despite what the smoke and crackling noises would have you think, even electronics get thirsty.
I'm in agreement with Jha. Don't encourage the computers. It's hard enough to feed me.
----------'Now the ring's in the pawnshop, the rain's in the hole/Down at the five points I stand/I'll lose everything, but I'll never let go of your hand' - "Never Let Go" - Tom Waits.
0 / 50,000
Sep 28, 2008 - 22 00
Everyone knows keyboards generate foodcrumbs directly from the aether already. They need sustenance that's conducive to being conductive.
54,355 / 50,000
Sep 29, 2008 - 04 36
The brain food needs to be for me while I`m not writing when I should be.... The computers will have to go hungry for I need my chocolate.
----------Dare To Dream
Dare To Believe
Dare To Be Different
Dare To Be Yourself
Dare To Make a Difference
6,881 / 50,000
Sep 29, 2008 - 06 29
Hey
Checkin' in, missed yesterday but I plan on making to a few events.
Nice to meet you all.
----------Try to scratch haiku
onto paper I stare down
asking for the moon
51,287 / 50,000
Sep 29, 2008 - 06 58
Hi nemish! Welcome to HaNoWriMo!
----------Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
50 Stories; 1,000 words each... will I survive?
Current story:
15,540 / 50,000
Sep 29, 2008 - 14 56
I'm sad that I couldn't make it to the meeting thing, but I'll be there next time, I hope!
And *Raises hand* I have a color printer and know how to muck with cardstock and graphics and all that. I'll gladly help
----------And then I knew I was dead. Because, through the heavy water, I heard the sound of an angel calling my name, calling me to the only heaven I wanted. [IMG]http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m70/erinjjohnson/EDWARD-1.jpg[/IMG]
51,287 / 50,000
Sep 29, 2008 - 16 55
And *Raises hand* I have a color printer and know how to muck with cardstock and graphics and all that. I'll gladly help
You rock my socks.
Add me to MSN and I'll show you what I'm talking about!
----------Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
50 Stories; 1,000 words each... will I survive?
Current story:
56,027 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2008 - 21 42
It exploded, but in a good way. I had ideas coming out my ears!
I thought I could set up a Script Frenzy group like how you set up a NaNo group, but no one was interested, and I didn't plan ahead far enough. I stuck it out alone.
And hell, there was a meeting already? I need to pay more attention to these things! :(
Well, I'll be sure to make the next meeting. I've got a killer plot that I need some help with!
----------NaNoWriMo 2008:
PATCHWORK HEARTS - http://patchworkhearts.wordpress.com
51,287 / 50,000
Oct 3, 2008 - 06 53
I thought I could set up a Script Frenzy group like how you set up a NaNo group, but no one was interested, and I didn't plan ahead far enough. I stuck it out alone.
And hell, there was a meeting already? I need to pay more attention to these things! :(
Well, I'll be sure to make the next meeting. I've got a killer plot that I need some help with!
Haha, yeah, I e-mailed some, and I posted about it here before the forums were wiped. Just to kick things off really early. We'll have another meetup sometime soon, I promise! Keep your eye on the Google Calendar link I posted: it currently has deets on the Official Kick-Off and the First-Day Write-In Extravaganza!
And yeah, I heard about that... Aisha told me that someone'd tried to get the couches booked and she asked me what that was about, and I was like "dunno" but then I saw your post here! Good try though!
----------Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
50 Stories; 1,000 words each... will I survive?
Current story:
3,003 / 50,000
Oct 6, 2008 - 14 32
I am neither back nor new, but somewhere in between - it's been three or four years since I last attempted NaNo, and that attempt was feeble enough that it should probably be ignored SO
Hi! I'm Doug. I'm entirely 100% new to NaNo, and anything Zibblsnrt says about me is a lie, unless it's complimentary, in which case it's an outrageous lie.
0 / 50,000
Oct 6, 2008 - 14 51
He's telling the truth, people!
51,287 / 50,000
Oct 6, 2008 - 16 28
LOL, that's like that game where one person never lies and the other never tells the truth! Welcome, Doug!
----------Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
50 Stories; 1,000 words each... will I survive?
Current story: