Region/USA/FL/Tallahassee

The United States::Florida NaNoWriMo region consists of the city of Tallahassee and the cultural region known as the Big Bend area of Florida. The region is very active for its size, with write-ins and happening throughout the city all throughout the month of November and beyond.

History

The Tallahassee region has existed formally since the early to mid-2000's. Current ML, PearlRose (Maggie) has been leading the region since 2009. In 2014, gldearman joined the region as an ML.

In 2012, we partnered with Florida State University's Goldstein Library for a series of write-ins, and in 2013, the Tallahassee Writers' Association hosted several midweek write-ins with the assistance of the region. In 2014, the region hosted more write-ins than there were days in November!

In 2015, the region continues to be extremely active, with near-daily write-ins and a few social gatherings, like the Kick-Off Party, the Midway Party, and the TGIO!

Events

• Kickoff parties, originally at Ray's Steel City Saloon, now hosted at Momo's Pizza Market Square.
• Weekly Write-ins
  • Now up to almost-daily write-ins
  • (We had 27 write-ins in 2015 alone!)
• Midway Party!
• TGIO parties
• Twice-monthly Workshop sessions from January through October.

Regional Stats

• 2015: 214 novelists • 4,176,942 words written • 19,518 average wordcount
• 2014: 242 novelists; 4,471,069 words written; 18,475 average wordcount

Municipal Liaisons

Present

• PearlRose (Maggie) (2009-)
• gldearman (2014-)

Past

• Fuzzynerds
  • n0apologies
  • RachelOddment
• Scraps
• Malcolm Sterling
• digwithashovel (Chris)

Nearby Regions

• USA::Florida::Jacksonville In years previous, we had hosted word wars with them.
• USA::Florida::Northwest This region consists of the Panama City and Pensacola areas.
• USA::Florida::Ocala The closest region south of us.
• USA::Florida::Gainesville This region is home to the University of Florida, arch-rivals to Tallahassee's Florida State University.
• USA::Georgia::Kingsland Our closest Georgia neighbor.
• USA::Alabama::Dothan Our closest Alabama neighbor.