Hey Wrimos,
Just in case any of your folks are super new to the region and didn't get my awesome regional emails (ha ha), I've decided to compile them here for your reading leisure.
Enjoy!
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Week 2
Hello to all of you BC Wrimos and fellow affiliated Wrimos that just happen to love BC,
Welcome to Week 2 of your Nano experience and the beginning of our hardships, if you haven't already experienced them. Week 1 was our week of experimentation and character development: determining whose story we're telling and whom it was it was about. We wracked our brains for inspiring or interesting people we've met or known in our lives, drawn upon our own experiences, or just pulled a name out of a hat. We've looked towards the sky, spread our wings, and flown straight into the clouds with our imaginations held high.
If you were successful in your flight during Week 1, you'll find yourself soaring in the 10K+ margin, and either be only slightly behind or well ahead of what's required. If you were less than successful in your flight during Week 1, you'll find yourself - like me - flapping your wings hard and trying to keep up with the pack. You might have even found yourself in a nose-dive from time to time.
Is it time to quit? Take off your pretty wings and hang them up for another year?
Heck no. It's time to dust off the cobwebs that have been forming in other parts of your imagination and dare yourself. Dare yourself to do what, you say?
Dare yourself to continue. Dare yourself to win. Triple-dog dare yourself to make it through the weekend and write as many words as you possibly can without being tired enough to fall smartly on your face on your way to work/school on Monday morning. Dare yourself to write without any inhibitions and to do things differently. Cleverly. Interestingly. Strangely. Be the black sheep and enjoy it!
Do yourself a favour and pull out your favourite word-processor and in big, bold fancy letters, I want you type out the following words: "Elenya says: 'Triple-dog dare you to finish!'" Print it out on your fancy printer and stick it right above your monitor. Anytime you think that you're too far behind to make it, look up at that fancy sign and see that I'm rooting for you and flying alongside you.
Don't doubt yourself. Have faith in the Nano process. And never stop writing (or flapping those wings you got before Week 1 started).
Flappin' Along,
Elenya
PS. Just a few administrative notes on our forums. Make sure that you're checking our IRC Chat (http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3083324) on a regular basis for some impromptu word wars (and also to meet new writing buddies). Also, if you're lost as to who your ML is for your area, check out the list of MLs (http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3045362). Finally, check the calendar for any scheduled write-ins/events in your area (http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=nanobcelsewhere%40gmail.com&ctz...).
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The Big Day
Hail and well met, BC Wrimos - we've made it to another year.
The spookiness of Hallowe'en has passed us by and now we're ready to dive into writing: fingers arched on keyboards, pens grasped in hands, coffee (or hot chocolate) steaming near by, and the promise of delicious Hallowe'en candy on the horizon. We've finally made it to Day 1.
For those of you who are Nano Vets, like myself, you know that Day 1 is one of the most important days of the month - it is the day where your ideas are the most virile and they're just bursting out of your brain, ready to be written onto the page. It is the day where you feel as though your story will write itself and you are merely the vessel. For those of you who are joining us for the first time this year, take our advice: don't stop writing this weekend. Obviously you'll need breaks (food, drink, muffins, bio-emergencies, nuclear warfare, etc.) but don't stop writing because you've reached your daily quota of 1,667 words.
Banks as many words as you can this weekend because next week is the dreaded Week Two.
And believe me, Week Two has heinous plot bunnies that will come and Bunnicula away any sanity you had left. But fear not! If you bank many words this weekend, you will be okay.
So let yourself fly this week, my BC Wrimos. This is the week to cherish.
Sending good writing mojo your way,
Your ML (Elenya)
PS. The IRC chatroom is set up! Head to http://www.schizogeny.com/nanobcelsewhere.html and enter your nickname/handle. C'mon in and introduce yourself to all that are there! I'd offer muffins at the door but I'm pretty sure I ate them last night. Oops.
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Countdown to Nano Begins!
Hello my fellow Wrimos!
It has been a good long while since I've had the pleasure of sending out a regional email and here we are, only 5'ish hours away from diving into our new NaNo Novels for 2008. So, what can we expect out of this year's happenings?
1. We have our very own IRC chat room, thanks to the co-ML for Vancouver (MysteriousAges). He's graciously set it up for us so that we can use it for our online kickoff (tomorrow, starting at 8AM, ending... whenever you realize your eyes have started to fall out of your head) and for any online write-ins/word-wars that we please.
Server: irc.vaultofages.net
Port: 6667
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1783 - more information on setting up IRC Clients. I'll send more information whenever I can get a hold of the lovely MysteriousAges.
2. News of Co-MLs and announcement of future Co-MLs - BC Elsewhere is an enormous region and having one ML to cover the whole thing (while said ML is a university student) just won't work this year. So, I've put the word out to our group of Wrimos that I'm in need of two more Co-MLs - one to cover the Kootenays and the other to cover Vancouver Island (outside of Victoria). Interested? Send me a Nanomail! Ashneko and Cranberrygirl, you're in the midst of being turned into Co-MLs officially so wait for the word!
3. Write-ins - we haven't had the chance to set up any official write-ins for this time around (namely due to my own time constraints) so I'll be scouring the forums today to set them up in an official order. Looking for a write-in but you're not sure where to look? Check out our regional calendar: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=nanobcelsewhere%40gmail.com&ctz...
4. I'll send another email on the morrow with pep talk goodies abounding.
Happy Nano's Eve, my fellow Wrimos.
As always,
Your friendly neighbourhood ML (Elenya)
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ML for British Columbia: Elsewhere
Email: kamloops_bc@nanowrimo.org
