Sprint Week!

[writingvixen.livejournal.com]

Many of you who have gone to school know what Homecoming week is all about. Typically there is a 'spirit week' leading up to the big game where everyone can show off their school spirit and have a blast. Great games and activities are planned and it's fun for all.

Don't you love it?

Don't you miss it?

Well guess what?

We're going to institute Sprint Week (get it sprint? rdrr?) for NanoWrimo! The entire week leading up to November 1st, your mods here at nanowrimo and allyear_sprints have fun and excitement planned for you, including special sprints, amazing discussion forums, and crazy daily activities.

The fun starts on October 25th. Let me break it down for you.



October 25th

Special Event: Create your own soundtrack for NaNoWrimo!
Special Dress: Wear your craziest pair of socks all day long
Special Sprints: 5am-8am - Host: Emmy - plotting sprints (character, setting, ideas)
8pm - Host: Kitty - Soundtrack sprint - join Kitty in creating your special soundtrack for nanowrimo

October 26th

Special Event: Create your book cover day!
Special Dress: Dress like your book jacket photo day.
Special Sprints: Noon - 2pm - Rolling up a quick character - Host: Jill
2pm - 6pm - the art of sprinting with distractions - Host: Melissa

October 27th

Special Event: Create a NanoWrimo Eye Mask (shopping list and details to come)
Special Dress: Pajama party day! Wear your pjs all day long! (or at least while you're prewriting and joining us for sprints!)
Special Sprints: 10am-1pm - Raising the Stakes and Character Reactions - Host: River
8pm-10pm Create the Sleeping Mask - Host: Mel

October 28th

Special Event: Open the Thesaurus Day! An extra long list of words to add to your NaNoWrimo
Special Dress: Wear your writing hat day!
Special Sprints: 7pm-10pm - Sarah - Fun with Synonyms {finding the wordy way to say something}

October 29th

Special Event: NaNo Bracelet Day! Make a cord to wear around your wrist the month of Nov.
Special Dress: Crazy accessories, from hats, to gloves, dress it up like crazy.
Special Sprints: 10am - 1pm - The Cloud - Making the time (writing when you don’t have the inspiration/time).
5pm - 8pm - The Cloud - Fun with outlining? (tentative based on work schedule)
8pm - 11pm - Rachel - Writing Trivia

October 30th

Special Event: Organizing your nano writing area 101
Special Dress: NaNo Gear Day - wear your nano themed gear, or make your own nano tshirts. :)
Special Sprints: 8am-11am - Cat - He said/She said - new ways to express dialogue
8pm - midnight a journey into insanity - Melissa

October 31st

Sprints from noon on, with special events the hour before each kick off in the continental USA, leading all the way until November 1st!

Special note: Every day we will have a post up for people to post pictures of themselves wearing or participating in the daily theme/dress etc! It's entirely optional, but feel free to have fun with it! We know that we will!

Also all sprints are listed in East Coast time and will be held in the room http://www.chatzy.com/writingsprints - please sign up at http://www.chatzy.com to be able to enter! Hope to see you all then!

Comments

[writingvixen.livejournal.com]

Thanks Mod Squad, for scheduling all these great sprints. You rocketh and rolleth!

[andersenmom.livejournal.com]

Glad to help.

[maxie.livejournal.com]

There are just no words for how much I love you guys and how committed you are to making this community a....community! It makes me excited to see other people being excited for NaNo! Thank you for taking the time to plans these great pre-NaNo wordshops (yeah?) for us!

[writingvixen.livejournal.com]

You might very well be my new favorite person with that word. Wordshops! Brilliant!

[maxie.livejournal.com]

As if there were really any other word for it! Wordshops 2012, sweeping NaNoland!

[jacquelee]

Oh, this is so great! I love how many events there are during the day (evening for me) I was worried they would all be scheduled after 6pm EST which would make it nearly impossible for me to attend (seeing that that is already midnight for me). But YAY it looks like I'll be able to join in a lot of the fun! Can't wait!

[krazikrys.livejournal.com]

SO looking forward to the Sprinting with Distractions sprint because...well, that is my life! Distractions find me (as in a 2 year old), so I can't wait!

[ibonekoen]

These sound really awesome! :D Can't wait.

[dream-of-orange.livejournal.com]

This is just amazing and a great way to get into the spirit! I will probably continue dressing upp all through November now that you mentioned the above dressing themes

[waldenwriter.livejournal.com]

Hopefully, I can make some of these. I live on the West Coast so the times of the chats will be different for me.

I figured out the West Coast (Pacific Time Zone) equivalents of all the times for the sprints (having printed out the thing about the sprints for my NaNo folder), so I might as well share them. Here they are:

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OCTOBER 25TH

Sprint 1: Plotting Sprints - 2am-5am Pacific
Sprint 2: Soundtrack - 5pm Pacific

OCTOBER 26TH

Sprint 1: Rolling Up a Quick Character - 9am-11am Pacific
Sprint 2: The Art of Sprinting With Distractions - 11am-3pm Pacific

OCTOBER 27TH

Sprint 1: Raising the Stakes and Character Reactions - 7am-10am Pacific
Sprint 2: Create the Sleeping Mask - 5pm-7pm Pacific

OCTOBER 28TH

Sprint: Fun With Synonyms - 4pm-7pm Pacific

OCTOBER 29TH

Sprint 1: The Cloud Making the Time - 7am-10am Pacific
Sprint 2: The Cloud Fun With Outlining - 2pm-5pm Pacific
Sprint 3: Writing Trivia - 5pm-8pm Pacific

OCTOBER 30TH

Sprint 1: He Said/She Said - 5am-8am Pacific
Sprint 2: A Journey Into Insanity - 5pm-9pm Pacific

OCTOBER 31ST

Sprints from 9am Pacific on

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Hope that helps!