NoVa Kickoff Party

The NoVa Kickoff Party is this weekend, so I wanted to post that information here. Yes, this is probably redundant and I don't know if anyone actually reads this, but maybe one day they will.

Copied from Kristin's post over at the NaNo forums:

Saturday, November 1st from 2:30-5:00
Panera Bread
12120 Fairfax Towne Center
Fairfax, VA 22033

There are tentative plans for dinner afterwards at the TGIFriday's which is in the same complex. We'll probably decide that once the write in is over and then whoever wants to heads over for dinner.

Email list

DCWG now has an email list through Google Groups. You can sign up on the main page of the site, or visit the group's page on Google. We're going to use the email list in conjunction with our meetings, so that we can have a more active group - especially during our off weeks.

Pre-Nano Meetup

Yesterday we had our first Reston meetup for Nano over at the Panera in the town center. I personally declare it a success! There were four of us there who worked on the plots for our novels, and another friend showed up for moral support. Sadly we didn't have any new people appear, hopefully there will be some at the first meetup on the 8th of November. I think if we can get at least five or six of us we can justify the normal size meeting room at the library.

Next week is the kickoff party in Fairfax, hope to see you there!

Meetup Information

Meetup info for NaNo, and DCWG after Nano too. I'll post information here and in the calendar if there are changes to any of this info. I've updated the calendar with these dates.

For NaNoWriMo:
Meeting time: 1pm to 3pm
Meeting place: Reston Regional Library (We'll get a meeting room if available, otherwise we may have to change the meeting place, depending on the number of people)
Meeting date: Every Saturday for the month of November - Except for the first Saturday (Nov. 1st) as there is a kickoff scheduled in Fairfax. So our meeting dates for November would be the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th.


For DCWG:
Meeting time: 1pm to 3 pm
Meeting place: Reston Regional Library (We'll get a meeting room if available, otherwise we may have to change the meeting place, depending on the number of people)
Meeting date: 1st and 3rd Saturday of every month. -- Please note this will not mean every other week. I'll post the meetings to the calendar at http://www.nanostew.net.

Calendar Update

Kristin has updated the calendar with the various meetups throughout Northern VA for NaNoWriMo. Be sure to check it out and see if there's anything you can make it to!

Update

The resources page has been updated with some links to screenwriting programs. I also managed to find a few more progress meters and added those as well.

Site Update

Updated the resources page with some free writing software. I've used both q10 and Open Office, both are decent for writing, although Open Office is more of an office suite of packages than just a writing program. I haven't used yWriter4 before, but from what I gather it sounds loosely similar to Microsoft OneNotes. If anyone has used it, please feel free to post what you think about the program. If you know of any other free writing software that I should add to the site, let me know.

Thanks!

Site Updates

Hello, I've been updating the site this morning. I've added Kristin and Dan to the authors page, as well as adding a resources page and the Nano Dares. On the resources page you'll find links to helpful writing tools such as progress meters, and nano spreadsheets. I've also added Script Frenzy info to the site, as a lot of us participate in that as well.

Hopefully I"ll get more people added to the authors page soon. If you have any suggestions for the resources page, or new dares that you think should be added, please let me know.

Thanks.

Nanostew.net is live!

The site is up and open for visitors. Please bear with me as things will be getting tweaked and more author info will be added. Feel free to comment here or drop me an email and let me know what you think of the site. It's nothing major or fancy, but it was fun to put together.

If you have ideas, comments, questions, etc. - don't be afraid to contact me, or someone else in the group. We're all nice and will answer any questions to the best of our ability.

I do plan on adding a page for the Nano Dares. Also, I can add some of the other Nano tools, like the lists of names and the plot suggestions by scanning those in and making them available as pdfs. Links to other sites would be good as well, such as random name generators and the like.

To be honest, I need to find my notebook where I wrote down the ideas I had for the site, and then get to working on it some more. Maybe I'll try to hunt up some good links today. Any suggestions are appreciated.

So, enjoy the site!

Thanks!

NanoStew.net Blog

Hello, and welcome to the NanoStew.net blog. Here we will post updates to the site, changes for meeting times or places, and hopefully some excerpts of novels and works in progress as well.