Vancouver is a big region.

No, really. It’s huge. With about 900 active and homed (meaning that vancouver is their primary region) participants in 2010, spread across something like 2.8 square megameters, Vancouver is among the largest NaNoWriMo regions. And we have two (2) Municipal Liasons to try and engage as many people across the region by holding in-person gatherings.

Of course, since the MLs have lives and work of their own and are limited to being in one place at any given moment, this becomes a nigh-impossible task! To help ease the burden and spread the NaNoWriMo love across the GVRD, we have recruited a crack team of Mini-Bosses! These Mini-Bosses are Read the rest of this entry

Mysterious Ages and I did a panel discussion at VCON this year talking about NaNoWriMo.org.

We handed out the Top 10 Reasons to Participate in NaNoWriMo to the attendees and thought we’d share them with you too :)

Top 10 Reasons to Participate in NaNoWriMo

10 ) It’s 30 days. Whether you make it to 50,000 words or not you’ve tried something new.

9 ) You meet other aspiring (& published) writers, not only in Vancouver but from around the world thanks to the forums

8 ) November becomes a housework-free month (Darling, can you do the dishes tonight I’m at a key point in my novel)

7 ) It’s therapeutic, all those things you wish you could do… you can do vicariously through your characters

6 ) A fantastic excuse to stay up way past your bed-time and eat all that half price Halloween candy that conveniently goes on sale Nov 1st.

5 ) You benefit from the synergy that envelopes us as we all work toward that common 50,000 word goal

4 ) You can participate as much or as little as you want, we’re just a click or coffee shop away when you need a boost or have written yourself into a corner

3 ) NaNoisms – those little phrases that made perfect sense when you wrote them… “Good thing decapitation isn’t fatal” or “Can you hand me a glass, I can’t see you clearly.”(Quotes courtesy of the NaNoWriMo.org forum)

2 ) You can make lasting friendships (some of us write together all year long at ‘The Other 11 Months’ group on Facebook

And most important of all…

1 ) You can finally say those magic words, “I wrote a book”