The NaNoWriMo Cookbook (and a quick story of how it almost didn’t come into being)

By: DM  Posted in: Uncategorized, feature.  Posted On: 01/11/2009.  Discuss: (11) ».  


Everybody knows the NaNoWriMo Cookbook.
And if you don’t, you suck.
I kid, of course.
A quick history: the NaNoWriMo Cookbook is this thing I put together every year with the help of members of the NaNoWriMo community (better known as WriMos).
This marks the Cookbook’s third year.
But what’s this? I say that I almost didn’t get it done.
Yarr, it’s true.
I’ve been so busy with life and plotting, I had no less than forty recipes built up that I had to add. But I powered through and got it done last night at 7:12 PM.

…now, everyone’s probably asking themselves this: what the hell are herpjeez?
Herpjeez are magical things.
It’s also the name of the typo disease I spread to everyone.
Some of the beautiful ones I had while I was editing…

One-thurd cup sugar
Spelling fail.

GREEN ONION PANCAKEZ/
Not only should I not have that slash there, I sound like I’m straight from /b/.
Oh wait…

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE MINK COOKIES
I have now lost my appetite.

Would you like me to shut up now and post the link to it?
Okay.

THE NANOWRIMO COOKBOOK
(that looks really cool…XD)

What else is there to say? I know Sky will kill me for not hitting the word count requirement, but there’s not much else to say…
Oh yeah.

SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 2010 – 2011 EDITION WILL START SOME TIME IN FEBRUARY

And if you have any redesign ideas, please feel free to comment here with them.
Thanks guys! Happy novelling!

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11 Responses to “The NaNoWriMo Cookbook (and a quick story of how it almost didn’t come into being)”

  1. Dyl, on November 1st, 2009 at 15:33 Said:

    YAY YAY COOKBOOK!

    And that does look really cool.

  2. Helena, on November 1st, 2009 at 17:55 Said:

    DM GAVE ME HERPJEEZ D: helo i just wonderin wtf r u doin i so confudz i couldn’t tel YAYAND

    And it does look very cool, yes.

    PS: DM, you are straight from /b/. :P

  3. Nicole, on November 4th, 2009 at 09:41 Said:

    I’m so glad you got it done. I know its a lot of work (done them before in other groups).
    It looks great, and there are a lot of great ones in that book.
    You rock! (as usual!)
    Nicole

  4. Christy, on November 6th, 2009 at 15:28 Said:

    I there. I just found your site today. And I love this idea. I don’t know if you’ll be compiling another cookbook soon, or would like to ‘spruce up’ the original, but I’d be interested in helping with layouts and other design interests.

    I have two blogs, am a web developer by day, and am in my 6th year of NaNo.

    Thanks.

  5. Amy, on November 6th, 2009 at 19:04 Said:

    *nearly coughed soup up her nose when she got to the herpjeez*

    *is still laughing*

  6. Sushi, on November 20th, 2009 at 17:52 Said:

    You are amazing, and now I won’t be able to use this book until at least December thanks to laughing so hard.

  7. shadowmagick, on February 15th, 2010 at 20:44 Said:

    The link won’t work…. *is sad*

  8. Chris, on February 15th, 2010 at 22:06 Said:

    Im afraid the old server ated the cookbook. I will talk to DM as soon as possible to get it uneated.

  9. DM, on February 19th, 2010 at 08:58 Said:

    Thanks Chris. I ended up realising this a couple days after you posted this comment.
    All fixed now.
    It should work.

  10. Luminosity.of.a.Shadow, on April 2nd, 2010 at 15:19 Said:

    Um, I may be missing something here…but in the Russian Tea recipe…what the heck is ‘instant sea mix’?!

  11. DM, on April 3rd, 2010 at 09:25 Said:

    That’s going to be an error on my part; my apologies.
    It should be instant tea mix.

    But instant sea sounds delicious right about now.

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