Comments on: Sale Madness At The Book Mark http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/2007/09/16/sale-madness-at-the-book-mark/ "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." - James Dean Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:51:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Don Ray http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/2007/09/16/sale-madness-at-the-book-mark/#comment-26747 Don Ray Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:39:32 +0000 http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/2007/09/16/sale-madness-at-the-book-mark/#comment-26747 Hi Charlotta. Thanks for the post. Let me know how you do this time! Hi Charlotta. Thanks for the post. Let me know how you do this time!

]]> By: Charlotte Newman http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/2007/09/16/sale-madness-at-the-book-mark/#comment-26743 Charlotte Newman Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:48:32 +0000 http://www.chiriquichatter.net/blog/2007/09/16/sale-madness-at-the-book-mark/#comment-26743 Hi Don et al, Thought this was the perfect place/subject-wise to let you and whomever else, know about this wonderful, maddening event that happens every November. It's called "National Novel Writing Month". It's insane! Here's their URL, in case I forget to include it, by the end of this comment. htpp://www.nanowrimo.org The challenge is: to write a novel of 50,000 words (or more), in one month. It's a contest, with cyper encouragement, cheerleading, "word-counting", and lots of other wildly fun stuff. It happens between November 1st - November 30th, and the contest is run every year. You can sign up for free and participate. The contestants participate from many countries, not just the U.S. NANOWRIMO has all sorts of other entertaining stuff in the in-between times, like this past summer, the challenge was, "can you write a screen play in one month". The site's based in San Francisco, CA. I believe. I tried for the "novel" last November. Made it to 15,000 words. Was recovering from hip surgery at the time. Unfortunately, my reward for "recovering" from surgery was to have to go back to work on November 15th for my usual 9 1/2 + hr data-entry slog. (Naner Naner. I'm retired now. No more 9 1/2 + hr days). So, I kinda lost steam, but I do have the beginning of a novel. Maybe not a good novel??? but, hey, it's almost a Novella at this point. So, if anyone's got the itch, this is guaranteed to drive you truly, absolutely nuts, in an insane fun kind of way. A woman who works for an international pet relocation service, turned me on to this last year, via an email exchange about transporting our cats to Panama. I apologized in my email for being long-winded - cause I write (that't my excuse, and I'm stickin' with it), She said she writes too, and said, check out this URL. Me, my guy, and the cats are still in the U.S., but will be heading out to Panama late winter next year. So the pet relocation thing never did get resolved at that point, but a novel fragment lingers on my system. OK. Check it out if you wish. Thanks for the airtime. Charloe Hi Don et al,
Thought this was the perfect place/subject-wise to let you and whomever else, know about this wonderful, maddening event that happens every November. It’s called “National Novel Writing Month”. It’s insane! Here’s their URL, in case I forget to include it, by the end of this comment.

htpp://www.nanowrimo.org

The challenge is: to write a novel of 50,000 words (or more), in one month. It’s a contest, with cyper encouragement, cheerleading, “word-counting”, and lots of other wildly fun stuff.

It happens between November 1st - November 30th, and the contest is run every year. You can sign up for free and participate. The contestants participate from many countries, not just the U.S. NANOWRIMO has all sorts of other entertaining stuff in the in-between times, like this past summer, the challenge was, “can you write a screen play in one month”. The site’s based in San Francisco, CA. I believe.

I tried for the “novel” last November. Made it to 15,000 words. Was recovering from hip surgery at the time. Unfortunately, my reward for “recovering” from surgery was to have to go back to work on November 15th for my usual 9 1/2 + hr data-entry slog. (Naner Naner. I’m retired now. No more 9 1/2 + hr days). So, I kinda lost steam, but I do have the beginning of a novel. Maybe not a good novel??? but, hey, it’s almost a Novella at this point.

So, if anyone’s got the itch, this is guaranteed to drive you truly, absolutely nuts, in an insane fun kind of way.

A woman who works for an international pet relocation service, turned me on to this last year, via an email exchange about transporting our cats to Panama. I apologized in my email for being long-winded - cause I write (that’t my excuse, and I’m stickin’ with it), She said she writes too, and said, check out this URL.
Me, my guy, and the cats are still in the U.S., but will be heading out to Panama late winter next year. So the pet relocation thing never did get resolved at that point, but a novel fragment lingers on my system.

OK. Check it out if you wish. Thanks for the airtime. Charloe

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