This is really what a "football field" is for.

The Hutto High School Marching Band heads to their first contest this Saturday. Tonight's the last Tuesday practice before show time. 

Kaweco Sport Ice donated by Christiane Gutbertlet & Kaweco

Continuing with my posts of pen prizes, Kaweco graciously sent us 6 Kaweco Sport Ice fountain pens in blue, red, pink, green, orange, and yellow.

Prize packs

I'm working on putting prize packs together today. Every student that takes on the NaNoWriMo challenge will receive one of these packs. 

Each prize pack contains:

     1. Either a Field Notes or doane paper journal (for plotting, character sketches, etc...);

     2. Faber-Castell JUMBO Dot grip pencil;

     3. from JetPens, a Zebra Zmulsion gel pen;

     4. a KUM pencil sharpener (I LOVE KUM sharpeners! Everyone should have a least 3 or 4);

     5. stickers (sometimes you've got to celebrate that awesome scene, or perfect line);

     6. one dice (I know, I know. "Dice" aficionados will say "die", but after researching which is correct, it turns out BOTH are correct these days. Ah, modern English. I got this idea from my co-worker, Mrs. Hemenway. The die is used when you're stuck and don't know which way to go with your story. "The die is cast."). 

There is one thing missing that I'll add this week. I've ordered NaNo writers buttons, but they haven't arrived yet. 

Thank you again to all of the donors and supporters. We all can't wait until November 1st. 

Retro51 "Ace of Spades" donated by Lupe Salvidar and Retro 1951

Preppys donated by Lisa & Brian Anderson, and Pens for Kids

I couldn't believe my eyes when I met Lisa and Brian Anderson at the Dallas Pen Show and was handed a bag full of Platinum Preppys to go out to my young writers. 40 Preppys in red, pink, blue and green will go into their hands. These are great pens, and I own 7 of them myself.

TWSBI 540s and minis donated by Philip Wang & TWSBI

Creativity Already?

Kids are joining in every day, and with 30 left before NaNoWriMo starts...I hope I have enough pens?

I decided to try something a little more "creative" with the sign up this year. Normally, students interested in writing would simply stop by my door and let me know they were interested. This year, there is a "registration" form.

Some of the students are getting creative with their "Hero" names:

• Wild Pirate
• Vital Power
• Captain Blocksalot
• Shinobi Peach
• The Invincible Hamster
• Unicornasong
• Rambo Chowbaca
• Saxophone Man (guess which instrument this one plays...)
• The Green Dragon
• Night
• Pokecrafter95
• Geek Girl
• Nerd Girl
• Super Writer (predicting the future?)
• Wild West (this one was creative...his last name is West!)
• Deep Thought
• Sceamintin
• Z Fang
• CB
• Elite Band Chick (yeah she is!)
• Leo Boy
• Outstanding Red
• Crazy Boy
• Cerda
• The Captain (hey, I get to have fun with this too)
• Fire Blaid
• Copurnium Cowfish
• Writterholic
• Fat Cacaque
• Mister Super Man

And there's quite a few more that have already signed up. Time to get ready for writing!