Announcing the Evening of Scribbling Recklessly! This is our answer to the Night of Living Dangerously, since I know most people here in Nashville can't go to California this year.
What: A six hour long, prize filled, crazy write a thon!
Where: 2300 Knights of Columbus Drive || Nashville (Near the Airport)
When: Sunday, 22 November 4-10 PM
Admission:
Okay, guys. This is a big fundraiser event for NaNo. So, there's going to be a little bit of an admission fee.
It's a TEN DOLLAR donation to get in the door - cash preferred, or checks will be accepted. Please note. Part of the money will go to pay the room rental fee. But the location is huge and we have parking and it's all ours.
Also, because of our limited (read that as non-existant) budget, I'm asking that everybody bring a finger food-ey side dish to share. Remember, we'll be stuck there for six hours, so I'd hate to have you waste away to nothing.
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With that all said, here's some other stuff.
Right now, my goal for us is a final word count of 50,000 words for the day.
Just to put in perspective how easy this goal is, if you can write the daily word count in under 2 hrs, that means each person can write about 5,000 words in 6 hours.. We'd only need 10 writers to make that goal. We can so do this!
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24,002 / 50,000
Nov 20, 2009 - 20 35
Keep watching this spot! The following companies have offered to donate prizes!!!
Recieved:
Spirit of Nashville (4 large prints, 3 small prints, gorgeous full color hardcover book) http://www.spiritofnashville.com
Two Rivers Golf Association (packet includes coffee mug and reuseable water bottle!)
The Frist (Ten admission tickets!)
Nashville Sounds (Gift pack)
Lotz House (admission for two)
The Steeldrivers (Tshirt and CD)
Robert Liparulo (autographed book)
Captain Rodney's Gourmet Foods
Hands On Science (family admission)
Regal Cinema/Green Hills (two sets of two tickets to anything - with movie posters!)
Black Mask Books (2 trade paperback books - "Red Alert" and "Seven Slayers")
E. Michael Terrell (2 Signed copies of Racing The Devil.... Yes, one of our very own WriMos in print!!)
Margaret Britton Vaughn - Poet Laureate of Tennessee (2 autographed poetry books, 1 autographed short story collection)
Red Panda Jewlery (8 chainmaille keychains)
Ink Monkey Magazine (issue 1 and 2)
Bongo Java ($25 gift card!)
Nashville Zoo at Grassmere (admission for 2)
Independant AVON Sales Representative Genia Shipman (bath & body gift pack - pomegranate mango scent - plus stuff for our kickoff goodie bags!)
Four Square Creative (they do graphics, editing, illustrations, etc...)
Starbucks/Nipper's Corner (Bags of coffee)
Mansker's Station
WSMV/Chanel 4 - Snowbird Stuff
Lost River Cave (Kentucky)
Classic Coup tshirt company (http://classiccoup.blogspot.com/)
Other Nano sponsors for 2009 -
The Parthenon
Knights of Columbus
Cathzar
Sweet Desires by Lizzie
...and many many more!!
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46,228 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 12 58
I'll be there! I'm so excited about this! I'm a freshman at Belmont who came from a small town in Illinois, so my past three years doing NaNo, nothing like this has been available to me. It's going to be a whole new NaNo experience, and I can't wait ;)
----------1,418 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 13 32
Well, I may just have to skip church! We'll see......
52,907 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 22 07
Okay, I need to remember to put in to have that day off. This'll be big fun.
----------2005: The Braids of Destiny (WON!)
2006: Movements of Fire and Shadow (WON!)
2007: Lost Secrets (WON!)
2008: Dancing in the Moonlight (WON!)
2009:
24,002 / 50,000
Oct 3, 2009 - 21 33
Elaine - the event won't start till 4, so you *should* have time to go to an early service and then ... six hours of the most fun ever at the event.
Shar - you know you don't want to miss this. :)
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0 / 50,000
Oct 4, 2009 - 00 03
Oh, I'll totally be there. November just won't get here fast enough! :)
36,310 / 50,000
Oct 4, 2009 - 07 31
Sounds fantastic!
----------"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic to it. Begin it now." -- Goethe
1,418 / 50,000
Oct 4, 2009 - 08 16
fly - I go on Sunday mornings and evenings - I'm in a class my pastor teaches from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. I think I just figured out that the last session is on the 15th, so I can make it to our EoSR and not miss a thing! =) Yay!
37,035 / 50,000
Oct 4, 2009 - 12 03
wahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! I won't be able to do it. Our final performance of the local Nutcracker (staring myself as one of the parents and my daughter as both a mouse and one of the Mother Ginger kids) is that night at 7.
Due to rehearsals and what not I may not be able to make any write ins and stuff.... :( I will have a finalized calendar well before November....good thing is the studio has WiFi so I can take the laptop and write during her rehearsals. (and post)
----------NaNo '05: I Wish I May (won)
NaNo '06: I Wish I Might (won)
NaNo '07: Have This Wish (won)
NaNo '08: Spinner's Web (won)
NaNo '09: Oaken Hearts (working title)
24,002 / 50,000
Oct 4, 2009 - 19 05
Pooka, don't you know better than to do something like that? Sheesh. (HA!)
Yay for them having WiFi!
I hope you can make something!!
Our event is going to be the coolest thing ever!
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55,212 / 50,000
Oct 5, 2009 - 17 10
Sounds fun.
Nearly every gathering I have been to in Nashville is a pot luck. Must have something to do with running around with broke songwriters. Seriously, we even have a pot luck and a song circle when someone dies.
So it's totally appropriate that we're sharing food while writing. For me, it's become synonymous with living here.
----------Winner 2005: The Tribe of Palmetto Bay
Winner 2006: The Blue Light
Winner 2007: Fido
Winner 2008: Disappearance
Winner 2009: Comp Psi
http://cookingback2reality.blogspot.com/
0 / 50,000
Oct 5, 2009 - 17 27
I'll be in Alabama that weekend, but if we can make it back by Sunday afternoon I will definitely be there! Woohoo!
40,395 / 50,000
Oct 5, 2009 - 18 53
I should be there. It sounds like it is going to be a whole lot of fun. And it will let me try out some of the recipes I have been wanting to try out. =)
----------2008: Wrong Turn
24,002 / 50,000
Oct 6, 2009 - 22 33
Nearly every gathering I have been to in Nashville is a pot luck. Must have something to do with running around with broke songwriters. Seriously, we even have a pot luck and a song circle when someone dies.
So it's totally appropriate that we're sharing food while writing. For me, it's become synonymous with living here.
Well, if you'd each like to pay about $40, I'll cater dinner. :p
I think you're right about the broke thing. Starving artists can usually afford finger foods for something, but dinner out somewhere is another story. I figured for this, a low minimum donation was a good plan, bring munchies (because really, I'd rather graze all night than eat a catered meal), etc.. I want a packed room. Seriously, I want it more than I want NaNo to get a donation.
And seriously, $25 to BONGO JAVA. Who here (besides me) doesn't want free coffee goodness?
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42,122 / 50,000
Oct 7, 2009 - 12 57
Okay, for the rookies among us...
I'll assume I need a laptop to participate?
How do prizes work for a scribblefest - door prizes for simply showing up? Most words? Best hors d'oeuvres? Ugliest T-shirt?
Pencil me in, though I've still not decided on a novel topic yet. Should have one (and 30,000+ words) by then, I s'pose.
-- Nash
24,002 / 50,000
Oct 7, 2009 - 13 40
Well, you don't *have* to have a laptop to participate, but I would imagine your arm would get tired if you wrote longhand for six hours.
I'll have tickets for various reasons (paying the $5 donation and bringing food to share like you're supposed to do each get you a ticket!), and you can buy extras for $1 each. (Remember, these are for NaNo!)
During the event, I'll interrupt you guys every hour on the hour to draw for some of the prizes. (Laptop users should really take a break once an hour anyway)
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52,184 / 50,000
Oct 7, 2009 - 15 34
um, I don't? Seriously, I've never hopped on the coffee train. But hey, I'm plotting on attenting this anyway! It's always more fun to write in groups.
----------NaNo Writer: '04, '06, '07, '08
NaNo Winner: '06 (untitled), '08 (A Different Kind of Solitude)
24,002 / 50,000
Oct 7, 2009 - 20 17
kyrdwyn... It's good to know I'm not the only non-coffee drinker among us.
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Oct 7, 2009 - 20 54
We should see if Teavana might cough up something, or just bring some Teavana stuff for the non-coffee peeps. :) (twist my arms and make me go to Teavana.......)
----------NaNo Writer: '04, '06, '07, '08
NaNo Winner: '06 (untitled), '08 (A Different Kind of Solitude)
24,002 / 50,000
Oct 7, 2009 - 22 49
Where is Teavana?
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Oct 8, 2009 - 04 29
Sounds like fun. Hopefully I can convince the hubby to stay home with the baby and give me a night away to write...
Oh, and I don't do coffee either... or tea. Hot chocolate, all the way!
52,184 / 50,000
Oct 8, 2009 - 05 54
It's in the Green Hills Mall, near Sephora. They do specialty loose leaf teas and tea making items. Their Pina Colada blend makes a kicking iced tea.
----------NaNo Writer: '04, '06, '07, '08
NaNo Winner: '06 (untitled), '08 (A Different Kind of Solitude)
24,002 / 50,000
Oct 8, 2009 - 11 22
Oooh.. the fancy one.
----------I was going to get my mother a present from there once, and then she made a comment so I never ended up doing it.
Never realized what it was called.
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Oct 8, 2009 - 11 59
um, I don't? Seriously, I've never hopped on the coffee train. But hey, I'm plotting on attenting this anyway! It's always more fun to write in groups.
Yeah, I'm with you. Not a coffee drinker (I don't even like the smell). But I've put in to have the day off, so I should be there!
Sara
----------2005: The Braids of Destiny (WON!)
2006: Movements of Fire and Shadow (WON!)
2007: Lost Secrets (WON!)
2008: Dancing in the Moonlight (WON!)
2009:
24,002 / 50,000
Oct 8, 2009 - 13 11
Sara - the smell actually makes me sick.
But, for those of you that aren't into some of this stuff, don't fret... When I do door prizes, I'll lump together everything for, say coffee shops and cafes, and then draw a ticket and give first pick, etc.. So you have a good chance to pick something you want. :)
We have a TON of prizes!
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Oct 8, 2009 - 13 12
And I should add... I'm still out asking for stuff. So woot!
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Oct 9, 2009 - 22 26
We should see if Teavana might cough up something, or just bring some Teavana stuff for the non-coffee peeps. :) (twist my arms and make me go to Teavana.......)
I asked today, and they have chosen to not play nice with me.
In fact, the manager was less than pleasant about the whole thing. So boo to them.
Actually, most of the places there (Green Hills) sucked ass and wouldn't give me anything.
It was really annoying.
But, did get movie passes and I have a couple other places that I have to call back, so I might get a few more. :)
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20,193 / 50,000
Oct 10, 2009 - 10 55
I'm really looking forward to this event. Should be a LOT of fun :)
----------2004 - The Grotesque's Spirit
2005 - Jane's Way
2006 - Fruit of the Blood
2007 - A Wolf by Any Other Name (working title, never finished)
2008 - Cave Dweller
2009 - Pitch and Pearl
52,184 / 50,000
Oct 10, 2009 - 15 21
I asked today, and they have chosen to not play nice with me.
In fact, the manager was less than pleasant about the whole thing. So boo to them.
Well 'thpt' on them. We shall have our NSR without them!
----------NaNo Writer: '04, '06, '07, '08
NaNo Winner: '06 (untitled), '08 (A Different Kind of Solitude)
24,002 / 50,000
Oct 10, 2009 - 17 09
I'm glad you are all so excited about this. Now to just hammer down a few details. :)
This event is going to rock!!
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