If you’re still having to write to reach your NaNoWriMo goal today, have no fear, there are two write-ins. One at George’s beginning shortly at 8:30 a.m. (I’ll try to get out of my pajamas and make it there on time, but there is still a dog to walk). Also beginning at 2 p.m. (or there abouts) many of us will take over the back corner of the bar and grill (at least that is the plan). I’m bringing a cushion to sit on because I will be there until they throw my fanny out.

Come cross the finish line with many of us today.

Don’t forget, Thank Goodness It’s Over Party on Thursday, Dec. 1 at Snoqualmie Brewery and Tap Room, 6:30 p.m., We’ll be in the loft area again (just like for the kick-off). Here’s the deal on that:

Like a good bookend, it will be much the same as our kickoff. Instead of goodie bags, there will be raffle prizes to give away (we hope)! Bring your wallet, your entourage, and your appetite! 

Also, the way our (white elephant) raffle prizes work: since we can’t afford to just go out and buy a bunch of raffle prizes (we wish we were made of money), we rely on our participants to help us out in that department. Have a tchotchke that you don’t want anymore? A book you’re done with? Some fine china? A gigantic stuffed monkey or octopus (I’m so vying for the latter)? A copy of your novel? A half-gone box of chocolate? A Starbucks gift certificate? Whatever you’d like to have up for grabs on the prize table is fine with us, as long as it’s family friendly and, you know, not alive. Time to clean out the attic! I know we can rely on you to make this selection of prizes the best ever!

Prizes to be awarded:
1st and 2nd to finish
Most words by end of Nano
Best last sprint (most words in last two days)
Most Write-In attendances
Least amount of words (and still showed up to the party! Go you!)
Best Opening Lines (as we will vote that evening, so bring yours)
Manuscript with the most references to Coffee in it. (count before you come – honor system)

Best Missing Something Duck reference (so bring yours to be voted on) 

Also feel free to bring a small snippet (no more than 1,500 words) from your NaNo that you’d want to share with all of us — as in do a reading.

And that, friends, is our TGIO party in a nutshell. We’d love to have you all there!

Just RSVP  if you’re coming.

Thanks! Hope to see you there!

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Your prompt (include it in your NaNo if necessary):

Put yourself or your character in a situation where they have worked hard to prevent something, but on the other side of the situation he/she realizes that fighting the situation was the wrong thing to do. She should have let fate take it’s course. Show me the pain and angst and the folly of humans that think they can control life, when in fact that’s hardly the case oftentimes.

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Board meeting December 14 at 7:30 p.m. at Carriage House. All welcome to attend. It will be a work party for our 501c3 application.

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Still looking for volunteers to help organize the writing contest, our annual journal and Word Jazz. Please let us know.

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What did you Write today?
~Casz

Casondra Brewster
Moderator/Founder
Sno Valley Writes!
Helping Writers Reach New Literary Peaks Since 2008
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“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.” ~ Lord Byron