Canada :: Nova Scotia

Pictou/Antigonish County Welcome and Check-in!

Tsuki-chan — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:31:17 -0700

Look, I'm getting it started nice and super early this year! For once, I'm actually organised, haha.

So. Yeah. If you're in Pictou/Antigonish County, post a little introduction. Who you are, where you're from (if you want), all that jazz.

I should probably go first, hm? Well, I'm Caitlin, and I'm one of your MLs for this year! I'm a third year at STFX and this November is going to make my head explode. I have a new co-ML, Leah, this year, as Denise/Rostand is in fourth year and is way too busy to ML - you'll meet Leah, no worries, and she is awesome.

We have some vague plans sketched out for this NaNo, but if there's anything we've done in past years that you'd like to ahppen again, or anything we haven't done that you think would be cool, feel free to pitch it to me or Leah.

This year is going to be an awesome year, for sure, even if our heads explode while we're making it awesome for you folks.

Don't forget: you can ask Leah or myself any question at all about NaNo, and if we don't know the answer, we'll know who does or how to find it.

Three cheers for Pictou/Antigonish!!
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Canada :: Nova Scotia

Anyone from the Valley?

bigboote — Thu, 2 Oct 2008 19:25:35 -0700

Hi All,

This is my first go 'round at this! I only just heard of it less than a year ago and thought it sounded like fun.
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Canada :: Nova Scotia

H-R-M: CHECK-IN!

Jha'Meia — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:20:53 -0700

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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Capers, where are you?

wordsmith — Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:17:19 -0700

Welcome and welcome back!

I'm your ML, wordsmith/Sherry, and I'll be at the Cape Breton helm again this year. You can reach me any of the following ways:

E-mail: sfwriter(at)gmail(dot)com
MSN: sfwriter(at)msn.com
Yahoo: scriptzine
Twitter: sdramsey

In the past we've generally held meetups at The Bean Bank on Charlotte Street in Sydney. I'd love to be able to spread the love around some other parts of the Island, so if Sydney's not really do-able for you, sing out and we'll see what we can do.

I definitely think we should have a pre-nano meetup before October is over. If you're interested, let me know and we'll set something up!

I'd also like to have a few write-ins this year--is anyone else with me?

I'll have our Google calendar set up within the next couple of days and post a link here.

So chime in, tell us you're here, introduce yourself if you're new, and tell us what you're going to be writing!

Cheers,
Sherry/wordsmith

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Canada :: Nova Scotia

Intro post

thanx4holding — Sat, 4 Oct 2008 08:34:55 -0700

Hi all. My name's Brendan. I'm 38 and moved back to Halifax in May after two years of living in Antigonish. I did NaNoWriMo last year and hope to make the word count again this year. It's nice to "meet" you all. I didn't know about the September gathering, but I hope to make the next one.
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Canada :: Nova Scotia

What's KEEPING you guys, anyhow???

Pernicious — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:45:31 -0700

May we have the details on the pre-pre-launch-lunch-and/or-lynching at the Paper Chase on Sunday? When does it start?

Many Thanks!

PS -- I'm bringing PICTURES from previous outings...
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Canada :: Nova Scotia

It's back!

TanyaReed — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:49:49 -0700

Anyone from the Yarmouth, Shelburne, or Digby area this year? (Besides me, that is.)
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Going in without an idea again. Should I be worried?