Poll for TGIO party at regional forums

Want to have a say for the TGIO party? Go check out the poll in our regional forums.

Please vote for location and date by 5 pm on Tuesday 11/29. We’ll have information as to the selected location and date by the Final Push Write In on the 30th.

Black Friday Write-in at Wild Iris

If you are in town for Thanksgiving, and just need to get away and write, we have added a new write-in on Friday, Nov. 25th. We’ll be at Wild Iris Books / Cafe Colette from 2 pm – 4 pm – one of this year’s “Come Write In” bookstores.

Take a break from the post Thanksgiving slump, or even your holiday shopping (perhaps even get more shopping done between word wars), and come boost your word count as we near the end of the month.

Big Event is tonight

Be sure to join us at Library West for the Big Event Write-in. We’ll be there from 5-10 pm.

If you can’t make it in person, be sure to join us via chat at 7pm to talk with Eleanor Brown, and again at 8:30 to talk with Gail Carriger. Lee Roland is joining us live at 5:45 if you can make it.

Big Event brings guest authors to local wrimos

Be sure to join us for our “Big Event” at the Library West Info Commons next Tuesday, Nov. 15th.

The event runs from 5 -10 pm, and is co-sponsored by the UF Libraries. This year we have local author Lee Roland joining us from 5:45-6:15. Following her chat/ question session will be a word war to win a copy of her book Viper Moon.

We will be joined via live chat from 7-7:30 pm by Eleanor Brown, author of The Weird Sisters, with a word war following for a chance to win a copy of her book.

Finally, from 8:30-9 pm we will be joined via chat by author of the Parasol Protectorate series, Gail Carriger. The subsequent word war will be for a copy of her book Soulless.

If you are unable to join us in person, please join us via the Gainesville NaNo chat room for the chat with our guest authors, for the opportunity to ask them questions.

Chat is back

With the end of Meebo Rooms, we were left scrambling to find an alternate chat room that we could use for online write-ins, and for our authors to join us for our Nov. 15th Big Event. I finally found one with Mibbit, and have managed to update our chat room page with the new room.

The chat is open for online write-ins, and general conversation. If you sign in, change the random username to one you’ll remember, so that you can more easily participate in the chat. If you come across problems, let us know, and I’ll do my best to figure them out. Since it is a new –to-me interface, and it is a little more technical than the Meebo Rooms were, I’m not sure where the learning curve will be, but I’ll try to resolve problems as quickly as possible.