Write-Ins Mondays and Wednesdays at Barnes and Noble in Southcenter

Excellent. 5 straight days of Southcenter write-ins, I love it!

Need a Saturday one too IMO.

2008: Chains of Ares (50,082)
2009: Untitled Fantasy Novel

BUMP until my event is added to the official calendar

Thank you for posting it here. Otherwise I probably would have missed it. Me and the duck Mandarina was kind enough to give me will try and be there tomorrow. Looking forward to meeting people there.

I seem to have found myself working on a trilogy for my first NaNo. Huh.

2009: Dawn of Steam
Book1: First Light (finished)
Book2: Gods of the Sun (finished)
Book3: House of the Rising Sun (in progress)

So run one Tamas. But pick a new venue. (Though you're going to take over the Tue/Thur come the 17th right?)

Renda Dodge
South Seattle Municipal Liaison

Awesome, I was thinking Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays were bereft of write-ins in my area and lo and behold I find the Monday and Wednesday B&N write-ins on the region calendar! So now I'll only have Saturdays off from write-ins but oh well, gotta give my right hand a break sometime ;)

SeattleKos
"The Time Before"
(a spec-fic original)

An update for this write-in. The Starbucks is remodeling the store and the store will close early at 8:00 today, and for Tuesday and Wednesday. I'll still be
We'll still meet at the same time at 5 and go until they kick us off.

How did it go? I tried to make it tonight, but in the end, wasn't able to make it. Still going to try and make it tomorrow, despite the early closing. Definitely hoping to meet with some of the other writers around here, as I'm curious what everyone is doing and how people are progressing.

I seem to have found myself working on a trilogy for my first NaNo. Huh.

2009: Dawn of Steam
Book1: First Light (finished)
Book2: Gods of the Sun (finished)
Book3: House of the Rising Sun (in progress)

The write-in went pretty successful. There were 6 people not including myself who came to the write-in and we had a productive time writing. We managed to overtake 2 tables.

An update. The Starbucks is back to normal operating hours and will close at 9:30 PM from now on.

An update. The Starbucks is back to normal operating hours and will close at 9:30 PM from now on.

Went to the write-in at Borders at Southcenter today and there was no organized event. Why was it on the calendar? Since I had to arrange baby-sitting it was a waste of time and money.

When in doubt, get naked.
http://mollieandlori.blogspot.com/

Oh no -- Seattle's Best Coffee at Borders near Sears, Sunday between noon and 4pm? I think I was the last one there, leaving shortly before 6pm; my yellow rubber duck may have been obscured by my (small, green) laptop. (There were a few ducks on one of the other small tables, though.) We were on the padded seats in the back-right side of the cafe, near the balcony (?). (Well, I got there a little late -- 1:30pm or something -- so I don't know if other people were there right at noon, if you got there at noon. I assume so, though; there were at least five other people today, and they looked pretty settled when I came in.)

Usually, you can tell who the Seattle NaNo-ers because of the pile of rubber ducks and the complaining about meeting word goals for the day. :/ Where were you sitting?

(Not the organizer, just trying to help.)

If you're over 72,000 words I hope you weren't complaining about word count...lol!!!

Maybe I was confused. I was assuming this would be an organized event with word sprints. So it was just about sitting in a coffee shop writing? If so, then it was my mistake. I was looking forward to more social interaction. My learning curve I suppose.

When in doubt, get naked.
http://mollieandlori.blogspot.com/

Hi Lori,
It usually is a bit more organized. There was some confusion as to who was hosting yesterday. Hopefully that won't be an issue in the future!

Renda

Renda Dodge
South Seattle Municipal Liaison

Ha! I discovered (on Tuesday the 17th, no less) that my writerly subconscious really wanted me to write two novels this year, not one long novel (arghgh). So now I am scrambling to get #2 done by 11/30 (I just hit 20,000 last night) and not trying to think the word "trilogy" too loudly to give anyone any ideas. Bleargh. :)

There were at least two word sprints (but I don't think any more than that) -- it varies by group. For yesterday's crowd, I think people just had more momentum without sprints, so there weren't any loud, obvious signs of organization. I've been at write-ins with 10-minute sprints every 20-30 minutes or so, too (which is probably the opposite). Next time you're at a write-in, I strongly encourage you to find the people with ducks and introduce yourself. :) (And mention it if you have any specific write-in goals, like hoping for sprints.) It's nice to meet other NaNo-ers non-virtually, and there's usually some social chatting in-between writing scenes (or as part of general NaNo-tradition procrastination).

(edit: Hm, or maybe there was confusion about organization; I missed that detail. I just assumed people were, you know, not in a sprinting mood. Renda, were you trying to run the write-in through skype?!)

I love how other people hijacked my write-in thread even though the complaint is not about the write-in on Mondays and Wednesdays.

An update for these write-ins (Mondays and Wednesdays). Today, I will be running a little late.

Mark Kerrigan

I will be running a tad late.

I'm here if anyone shows up. Just look for the ducks!

2006: The Dragon Mage (11000/50000)
2007: World's Greatest Heroes: the Next Generation (23000/50000)
2008: The Library (I finally won!!)
2009: Grimm City Tales: Detective Redding Hood