Wow! We accomplished so much as writers in the Bloomington-Normal region who reached the 50,000 word count in NaNoWriMo.  Congratulations to everyone who tried and to those who wrote all the way to 50,000!  It’s a great accomplishment and I’m sure you’re proud of yourself. Plus, we average 29,608 words per person.  That’s a great average! Here’s the list of who finished! bradzb bobmcbobob1 dOgma HellsMelle KiKiWrites LinedpaperMike Maxalt Melenka melissamclaughlin misslissylou MurphyChacho omny sama pagan451 poeticthings smjohnson21 snark.gallant — probably the first to finish TaterTotMom Taylorxx — probably the youngest writer to finish TheGreatSquishy TravisHuls visibledream34 Watermelonheaven And those in our region but with other home regions: auri_munonys BStanfill001 debra. Foobar_Zen Geekrokken55 Grouchmuffin IcyRoses JadeBlue JessWiz nudge._.twin randajane Utopiaswriter TimSimms Enjoy a great celebration!  And start planning for next year! We did it!

Wow! We accomplished so much as writers in the Bloomington-Normal region who reached the 50,000 word count in NaNoWriMo.  Congratulations to everyone who tried and to those who wrote all the way to 50,000!  It’s a great accomplishment and I’m sure you’re proud of yourself.

Plus, we average 29,608 words per person.  That’s a great average!

Here’s the list of who finished!

bradzb

bobmcbobob1

dOgma

HellsMelle

KiKiWrites

LinedpaperMike

Maxalt

Melenka

melissamclaughlin

misslissylou

MurphyChacho

omny sama

pagan451

poeticthings

smjohnson21

snark.gallant — probably the first to finish

TaterTotMom

Taylorxx — probably the youngest writer to finish

TheGreatSquishy

TravisHuls

visibledream34

Watermelonheaven

And those in our region but with other home regions:

auri_munonys

BStanfill001

debra.

Foobar_Zen

Geekrokken55

Grouchmuffin

IcyRoses

JadeBlue

JessWiz

nudge._.twin

randajane

Utopiaswriter

TimSimms

Enjoy a great celebration!  And start planning for next year!

We did it!

Big Push to the Finish Write-In! Sunday, Nov. 29 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Coffeehouse & Deli in uptown Normal Prizes for using the phrase ‘grand prairie’ in your text! Prizes for other writing fetes, too. Get help with putting words into NaNoWriMo word count computer

Big Push to the Finish Write-In!

Sunday, Nov. 29 from 4 to 5:30 p.m.

Coffeehouse & Deli in uptown Normal

Prizes for using the phrase ‘grand prairie’ in your text!

Prizes for other writing fetes, too.

Get help with putting words into NaNoWriMo word count computer

Word Challenge of the Day: Detritus Use this word in a sentence in your NaNoWriMo Novel. Post it to the thread in our forum. Or, print out how you used it on your novel to the Wed. Nov. 18 Write/Half-way Celebration at Carls Ice Cream on College in Normal from 7 - 8 p.m.  Win a prize if you can do it

Word Challenge of the Day: Detritus

Use this word in a sentence in your NaNoWriMo Novel. Post it to the thread in our forum.

Or, print out how you used it on your novel to the Wed. Nov. 18 Write/Half-way Celebration at Carls Ice Cream on College in Normal from 7 - 8 p.m.  Win a prize if you can do it

Word of the day: Balance Try to incorporate the word — Balance — into a sentence in your novel.  Publish your sentence on the Bloomington-Normal forum on NaNoWriMo.  Post here. AND, if you are the first person at the Sunday, Nov. 15, Write-IN to bring a sentence, within a paragraph, in your novel you will win a prize!  All the prizes are books about writing. The Write-In is Sunday from 3:30 to 5 on the third floor of the Bone Student Center of ISU.  Park in the parking lot behind the Bone. Entrance to the parking lot is on Locust St.  It’s about 80 cents an hour. Or park on the street for free.  There’s coffee on the main floor and lots of snacks.  The third floor is pretty small, as it’s mainly a foyer with tables for studying that wraps around the Braden Theater.  Click here for a map to ISU.

Word of the day: Balance

Try to incorporate the word — Balance — into a sentence in your novel.  Publish your sentence on the Bloomington-Normal forum on NaNoWriMo.  Post here.

AND, if you are the first person at the Sunday, Nov. 15, Write-IN to bring a sentence, within a paragraph, in your novel you will win a prize!  All the prizes are books about writing.

The Write-In is Sunday from 3:30 to 5 on the third floor of the Bone Student Center of ISU.  Park in the parking lot behind the Bone. Entrance to the parking lot is on Locust St.  It’s about 80 cents an hour. Or park on the street for free.  There’s coffee on the main floor and lots of snacks.  The third floor is pretty small, as it’s mainly a foyer with tables for studying that wraps around the Braden Theater.  Click here for a map to ISU.

Word Challenge of the Day: Hyperbole

Word Challenge of the Day: Hyperbole

Wednesday News

The word of the day: Hyperbole

Write-In Tonight at Panera Bread on Veteran’s Parkway near Borders from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Special incentive for the tumblr readers. If you are the first person to bring in a sentence using ‘hyperbole’ in your novel, you will receive a prize!

Word of the Day: Scintilla Kind of weird word, with tiny meanings, but could do big things in your writing. Try it out! If you use it in a sentence, please post on the Bloomignton-Normal Region, Word of the Day section. This word idea came from Artwiculate.com Image of moth from here

Word of the Day: Scintilla

Kind of weird word, with tiny meanings, but could do big things in your writing. Try it out!

If you use it in a sentence, please post on the Bloomignton-Normal Region, Word of the Day section.

This word idea came from Artwiculate.com

Image of moth from here

Word Challenge of the Day: Undead For all you zombie fans! Please post a sentence or two in which you use this sentence in your NaNoWriMo novel.

Word Challenge of the Day: Undead

For all you zombie fans!

Please post a sentence or two in which you use this sentence in your NaNoWriMo novel.

Write-In Saturday!

Write-In Saturday, Nov. 7

Join NaNoWriMo writers for a Write-In on Saturday, Nov. 7 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at Fusion Brew, 712 Kingsley St.Normal.  Phone: (309) 454-9300.  Here’s a link to Fusion Brew’s website.

Parking is available underneath the building.  There are parking spaces specifically for Fusion Brew, or it seems to be okay to park near to the FB’s spaces, too.

Since the ML won’t be there, please bring your own NaNoWriMo signs and introduce yourself to other people.

Fusion Brew is great, but it’s small so please, please, make a purchase to support this cool place.

Have fun!  Keep writing!

Word of the Day Writing Challenge We’ll have regular writing challenges to see if you can incorporate a word into the text of your NaNoWriMo novel. You may also use the photo as inspiration, too. If you can, please post the sentence on the Bloomington-Normal Region site. The word for today is: Perambulate Good luck!

Word of the Day Writing Challenge

We’ll have regular writing challenges to see if you can incorporate a word into the text of your NaNoWriMo novel. You may also use the photo as inspiration, too. If you can, please post the sentence on the Bloomington-Normal Region site.

The word for today is: Perambulate

Good luck!