PinoyWrimos

Oh hai!

Julie (planet_telex) here, checking in to let you know that I’ll be working on the Featured Excerpts section of our site regularly for the next couple of weeks. Expect more excerpts by then! Hopefully by the end of March I’ll have uploaded the entire 2007 PinoyWriMo Anthology to the site!

And we’re LIVE! Finally, after so many months of delays, the official website of the Philippine National Novel Writing Month community is now open!

If you’re a newbie to the entire NaNoWriMo thing, I suggest you read this or this first to get to know what this entire thing is, and then sign up and join the fun! If you’re an oldie, WELCOME BACK! :)

2007 has been a good year for the PinoyWrimos, with the meet ups and the seminars and the anthology, plus our very good rankings (as mentioned here) and 2008 is shaping to be an even better year! It’s the tenth anniversary of NaNoWriMo which means the NaNo HQ has a lot of stuff in store for everyone, and the local community is bringing it up a notch this year — which means, more fun stuff, more meet ups and hopefully, more winners! :)

This site will be a stop of all things NaNoWriMo for the Filipino participants. Whether you’re a Filipino Wrimo in the Philippines or a Filipino Wrimo outside of the Philippines or a half (even a fourth or an eighth) Filipino Wrimo OR you’re a Wrimo who is in the Philippines, you’re welcome here! Bookmark this site or add the blog to your RSS reader and get the latest news and events in the PinoyWrimo community. Browse around the site and get tips on writing and surviving the November noveling month and resources to help you with your adventure on November. If you’re short on inspiration, you can grab plot ninjas or read through some of the excerpts of the past novels of the PinoyWrimos!  If you’re interested in helping the community out (as we’re a volunteer powered community), you’re welcome to do so too!

Make your presence known at the NaNoWriMo boards (yes, it’s up!). Pretty soon, NaNoWriMo will come, and we’re going to have the best November yet. :D

Cheers!
Tina (tinamats)
Municipal Liaison for the Philippines

P.S. Much thanks to Kyameel for the awesome layout sprucing, as well as Sarah and Roland for the help in putting up this website. :D

P.P.S. Oh, and if you haven’t answered it yet, please answer the 2008 NaNoWriMo Philippines Survey. Thank you!

So…what’s this little box on the left that changes its contents every time you refresh and is labeled Plot Ninjas?

Well it’s no joke trying to write a 50,000 word novel within a span of thirty days; at some point during the month, a Wrimo will definitely lose some steam. Don’t worry, it’s perfectly normal, especially for an activity as huge as this one, it can be very daunting to finish 1,667 words every day, especially when your characters don’t seem to be talking to each other, or when you just can’t find the words, or when you’re seriously behind your word count. But don’t fret. That’s why we have plot ninjas.

Plot Ninjas are these little…well, plot ideas that you can use to up your wordcount. They can be relevant to your story or they could be not. They’re small, undeveloped ideas that is often left to the writer to be interpreted and added into the novel.

Here in pinoywrimos.com, we want you to win, to reach 50,000 words at the end of November (or even earlier). Which is why there is the plot ninja box — the small box at found there at the left side which gives you a random plot idea whenever you need it. Use one or all –  it doesn’t matter. If it works for your story and if it makes you meet your word count, then that’s what matters. :) Don’t like the idea that is there? Well, just click Refresh or hit F5 on your keyboard and a new one will pop out. You may also see the list of plot ninjas here.

This list is manually maintained, so if you have any plot ideas that you might want to share, leave a comment at this entry or drop us a line and we’ll have it added to the list. :)

Yeesh, it’s been a long time since I have used the term “Under Construction” in any of my websites. It feels weird to use it again.

But anyway. If by any chance you end up here even if I managed to hide the blog pretty well from the world…hello! Welcome to the far-from-finished pinoywrimos.com, the official website of the Pinoy National Novel Writing Month participants. This domain has been alive for almost a year, with a not-so-active writing project on the side, and now after months, it’s time to FINALLY, FINALLY make this website alive. So…it’s all in the works, and hopefully it will all be up by October.

I have a feeling people wouldn’t be really reading this post, so I’ll leave the explanations and whatnot at the official opening post. :) November’s just around the corner — almost time to jump to noveling land! Wohoo!

Cheers!
Tina (tinamats)
Municipal Liaison, NaNoWriMo Philippines