DNP 08 - Kick Off Party Live

• Some live recordings from the Dutch Kick Off Party with all the expected background noise.


• Recorded on my MP3-player's built-in microphone so please be gentle.

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DNP 07 - Combining NaNo And Your Life

• Chocolate Letters Update: only 6 or 7 left to go


• Solo Segment: Things I won't be doing in November


• Rik (Apneist) joins me to discuss how he'll combine NaNo with his thesis. Check out his site about free diving


• Linda (Sahi) joins me to discuss combining NaNo, a full time job, and a commute


• Anita (Cayendi) joins me to discuss combining NaNo with her family life and studies


• Episode 9 is due a week from now, but before that there will be a special Episode 8 from the kick-off party

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DNP 06 - Writing Quality

• We're trying to give one of our MLs her entire name in chocolate letters at the Holland & Belgium Kick Off party


• Shout-out to York and Leeds!


• Solo-segment: my views on cheating for NaNoWriMo


• Main topic: Marius (aka Gnawbird) joins me to discuss maintaining writing quality during NaNo


• Possible new sigline: spearheading the bulldozer way of writing


• Promo: The Babylon Podcast


• I found out about NaNoWriMo though Forward Motion


• Next week we'll be talking about combining your day to day life with NaNoWriMo

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DNP 05 - Wordcount Sheets

• An honorable mention for Robin of the Holland & Belgium regional lounge, who won a guess the post count competition.


• Solo-Segment: training for NaNoWriMo.


• My sister Dorinde (Devones) joins me through skype to talk about wordcount sheets. Tracking your progress can help keep you motivated.


• So can sibling rivalry.


• Quick closing remarks. I'm running late on this one -- I had some technical difficulties editing the Skype segment this time.

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There are two example sheets available. A version of Dorinde's sheet from last year updated to 2006, with estimated wordcounts. And my Flame Dancer sheet, tracking last years progress. Including my wordcounts after NaNo as a bonus. They're availabe in ods (OpenOffice/OpenDocument) and xls (Excell) file formats.
Dorinde's 2006 mockup in ods or xls
My 2005 sheet in ods or xls

DNP 04 - Outlining

• The forums are back.


• Some useful things to do during October.


• To Outline or Not To Outline? That is the question.


• The article on my site I mentioned can be found here.


• The Holland&Belgium Regional Lounge gained an IRC chatroom between recordings! The channel is #DutchNaNo on irc.blizted.org , you can also use this webinterface to get there. Be warned, most of the conversation will be in Dutch. And the /me action may be criminally over-used, judging by the first night of operations.


• Next week, using sheets to track your wordcount. Just how much can they track for you?

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