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United States :: Michigan :: Lansing is a NaNoWriMo region for the Lansing, Michigan area.

Going by the name NaNoLansing, the region has two rhino mascot (for the NaNoRhinos) named High Admiral Reginald Pantsmuffin and Wordcount Warren by popular vote in 2013.

A Little History

2007

After confirming with HQ that there was not an active ML in the region, Alaina (A_Rachelle) and Anne (TheJadeCat) volunteered to take over those responsibilities. Emails were exchanged on November 8, 2007, and confirmation was received on November 9, 2007.

Write-Ins were held at the Chapbook Cafe at the Okemos Schuler's.

There was no Kick-Off Party, but a TGIO party was held at Gone Wired on December 1st. Zack of OLL fast processed some official swag for the region, which arrived just in time for the party.

2008

Kick-Off Party: October 31 @ Gone Wired TGIO Party: December 6 @ Gone Wired

Inner Editors drawn at this year's kick-off may or may not have survived the TGIO party after being imprisoned all month.

Write-ins were held at Gone Wired and Schuler's Chapbook Cafe.

2009

Kick-Off Party: October 31 @ Gone Wired TGIO Party: December 5 @ Gone Wired

Write-ins were held at Gone Wired, Schuler's Chapbook Cafe, and LCC.

2010

Kick-Off Party: October 31 @ Gone Wired TGIO Party: December 9 @ Gone Wired

2011

Kick-Off Party: October 30 @ Gone Wired TGIO Party: December 11 @ Gone Wired

Write-ins expanded including locations at Wanderer's Tea House, East Lansing; Books & Beans, Owosso; Delta Township Library, Delta Township; and Gone Wired, Lansing.

2012

NanoLansing 2012 Trading Cards

Kick-Off Party: October 28 @ The Avenue (formerly Gone Wired) TGIO Party: December 2 @ the Capital Area District Library

Annette (Contemplative Cat) officially became a co-ML for the region after unofficially assisting for four years.

The Guilt Monkey Game was introduced. Twenty-eight wrimos passed 195 monkeys in the course of the month. The most monkeys passed by a non-ML were 28 by Random_Gauge followed by a tie off 22 by howthemoonfeels and RunningOutOf_Ink.

The first NaNoLansing Trading Cards were introduced with the Inner Editor and NaNoRhino.

Write-ins were held at Grand Traverse Pie Company, East Lansing; The Avenue, Lansing; the Capital Area District Library, Lansing; and the Courtside Cafe, Owosso.

2013

Frederick the Ferocious, personal Guilt Monkey of A_Rachelle
Participant Guilt Monkeys at a 2013 write-in
2013 Cauldron of Doom ninjas

Kick-Off Party: October 27 @ The Avenue TGIO Party: December 1 @ Haslett Public Library

The year of the Ninja. NaNoLansing pep talks, trading cards and prizes were themed after the ninja.

Outside of the usual candy and stickers, NaNoLansing write-in participants could also win ninjas after a Cauldron of Doom.

October prep workshops were introduced and included the following:

  • Are You Ready for NaNoWriMo?
  • Finding Your Vision with Inspiration Boards
  • The Plot Thickens
  • Breathing Life Into Your Characters

During the inspiration board session, a high fashion photo of Tilda Swinton was discovered in an issue of W, which led to the regional meme of the Forest of Swinton, multiple David Bowie references, and the Ziggy Stardust Award. The Ziggy Stardust award was given to Wrathofgod, gbjazzman, sigmaechoes, and Random_Gauge for "for keeping the spirit of Bowie... and possibly starting a cult".

For reaching a regional fundraising goal of $1100, or the Guilt Monkey Boogie level, a video was made by the MLs for the region.

Stats:

  • 324 Homed Wrimos who activated their accounts. (That’s 21% more than last year.)
  • 84 Wrimos wrote over 50K, 80 wrimos validated their word counts and officially won.
  • Nearly 25% of wrimos who activated their accounts won.
  • 249 Wrimos wrote at least one word.
  • 32% of Wrimos who wrote at least one word, won.
  • 6,366,040 is the number of words that our region wrote. Whew!
  • 281 Guilt Monkeys were passed along to other wrimos. (That’s 44% more than last year.)
  • $1126.85 is the amount of donations we brought in. That’s 34% more donations this year than last year. Comparing this year to 2 years ago, we brought in 52% more donations!

Write-ins were held at Grand Traverse Pie Company, East Lansing; Old Chicago, Okemos; and the Capital Area District Library, Lansing.

2014

Kick-Off Party: November 1 @ The Avenue TGIO Party:

The regional theme of steampunk was chosen based on the NaNoWriMo official artwork for the year.

Municipal Liaisons

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