so, your lovely mls recently received this challenge:
Hello from Connecticut,
I'm the ML for the Fairfield County region over here in CT, and are submitting a David vs. Goliath word war challenge.
Your region's average word count vs. my region's average word count. I say average word count, as my region's member count isn't even in the triple digits, while yours is in the quadruple digits. But when given the choice of who to challenge, they said Texas, and here I am on their behalf.
well, not only is everything bigger in texas, but it's better too, so we have accepted this challenge as a little extra push to keep us all going. we'll update you weekly, but it's up to all of us to stay on schedule and show those northern fools that the saying is true - don't mess with texas!
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jen
nano veteran
co-ML (dallas)
61,198 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 11 30
To mangle a movie quote:
"Their ego is writing checks their word count won't cash."
Alright Rhinos, let's crash their party. Show those damn-yankees* what an "AVERAGE" word count is!
*I was born in PA, but grew up in LA since before I could walk. I consider myself Southern not by birth, but by good fortune.
----------Indecision May Or May Not Be My Problem.
2005 - "Thieves At Heart" -Lost - WIP
2006 - lost
2007 - "The Dytek Enterprises Field Agent Handbook" - Win! - WIP
2008 - "Rendor Paxon (working title) Win! WIP
2009 - "Hunt Starfire's Phantom Phliers" - ??
36,017 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 13 28
Ok... cyberspace ate my previous response.... so... again! *lol*
Bring it indeed!!! What do we need to do? I'm new to NaNo so I'm not sure if this is just common knowledge or what. But my enthusiasm makes up for my lack of experience! Go TEXAS!!!
----------94,417 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 13 35
To quote a terrible movie:
It's already been broughtened.
----------NaNo08 - Darkside - Won
Screnzy09 - Darkside - Won
61,198 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 13 37
Michelle, we all need to turn in word counts as high as possible. We're a big area with lots of members, so statistically, we are going to have a large number of members who for some reason don't get to finish, quit early on, or don't end up competing. So, it falls on those of us who ARE actively competing to pick up the slack.
If everyone who is active shoots for a higher word count than just 50K, say 55 or even 60K, that will pick up our numbers.
I wanna see LOTS of purple bars with high numbers November 30th!
----------Indecision May Or May Not Be My Problem.
2005 - "Thieves At Heart" -Lost - WIP
2006 - lost
2007 - "The Dytek Enterprises Field Agent Handbook" - Win! - WIP
2008 - "Rendor Paxon (working title) Win! WIP
2009 - "Hunt Starfire's Phantom Phliers" - ??
120,520 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 16 27
Oh wow - well I guess it's a good thing I'm beginning to question whether or not if I can encompas my novel idea in 50,000. :)
----------41,521 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 17 33
Last year, I finished my book before I hit 50K so I had to struggle with adding extra scenes here and there to JUST hit the 50K mark in order to win. LOL
Let's hope I have better success this year to allow me to exceed my bumblings last year. :)
----------NaNoWriMo 2008 Winner -- A Special Case (Horror/Urban Fantasy)
NaNoWriMo 2009 -- Death Can Wait (Mainstreem Fiction)
7,215 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 18 06
Oh It's On! Let's show those yanks that this lone star state is all about. Yeeeehaw!
----------Life's tough. . . it's even tougher if you're stupid
51,212 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 18 16
I'm always game to show up yankees. But they DO have an advantage with the smaller numbers, so we definitely need to pound them out. And we can. Because we. Are. Awesome.
Oh shoot, I should be writing!
16,277 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 18 25
I'm game. :D
----------2009: Coronet (working title)
2008: Ghosts of Rosemont - 54,808
27,217 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 19 04
Bwahaha. This appeals to me greatly for some reason. Here's to getting an insanely high word count by Nov. 30th!
I loves a challenge. ;)
71,725 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 19 08
I'm game. Let's do it.
70,031 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 19 31
Happiness - A region war!!! COUNT ME IN!
11,382 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 19 43
I am excited about the challenge! I've never helped participate in one before. I'm so excited! I plan on updating my word count daily. I hope we win!
11,382 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 19 51
I just took a peak at what they have going on...which at this point, is nothing. No words...I wonder when they'll update their stuff.
*posted 9:50 pm*
6,923 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 20 24
Hahaha. IT'S ON.
----------Best,
Sarah
18,191 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 21 11
I'm shooting for 90K, not just the required 50K. While I didn't get a great start today, I plan to make up for that in the next few days. Its definitely a reasonable goal for me. During my normal writing, I generally write more than 2K a day, so 90K is only an extra 1K each day.
I'd love it if others push for a similar goal. Lets show those Connecticuters (Connecticutians? Connectians? WTH?) how we roll in Tejas.
----------Catherine Gayle
http://www.catherinegayle.com
http://catherinegayle.blogspot.com
47,344 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 21 52
Woohoo! I am so excited about this, just another reason for me to write endlessly.
Does anyone know how many people we have shooting for 100K? Or how many they have aiming for the same goal? It seemed like a lot more than last year to me. Just wondering if that could significantly help us.
----------~*~May Your Deity of Choice Watch Over You~*~
2007 - OlympianSun (won)
2008 - A Longer Dawn (won)
2009 - Watching My Sephy
61,198 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 22 06
I know Gradyp is shooting for 100K. He told me this yesterday (checks, yes, it's after midnight now) at the Midnight Write-In. I'm aiming for 50K done and gone on or by the NOWD, and I'm shooting for another 10k or better beyond that for the first draft. And if I still haven't finished the tale I'm telling, I'll keep on writing!
----------Indecision May Or May Not Be My Problem.
2005 - "Thieves At Heart" -Lost - WIP
2006 - lost
2007 - "The Dytek Enterprises Field Agent Handbook" - Win! - WIP
2008 - "Rendor Paxon (working title) Win! WIP
2009 - "Hunt Starfire's Phantom Phliers" - ??
36,674 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 22 27
Muahahahahaha, I love this.
I'm trying to add their word count to our header so we can keep tabs on them more easily, but the changes aren't sticking. There's some kind of bug right now so MLs can't do anything to headers. But! As soon as it is fixed, there will be a widget to show exactly how hard we're stampeding over them :D
(And any Connecticutters that are snooping around in here: First off, Hi! Secondly, we Rhinos stomp out of love.)
----------~Jesso~
I'm writing my novel by poll! Vote for the plot of my novel on Livejournal and Twitter!
61,198 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 05 33
7:30 AM numbers:
63 United States :: Connecticut :: Fairfield County 144,179 ----- 3,067
132 United States :: Texas :: Dallas/Ft. Worth 802,548 ----- 2,757
And some of the bigger Texas regions, for lagnaippe (a little something extra)
154 United States :: Texas :: San Antonio 239,928 ----- 2,695
----------318 United States :: Texas :: Austin 558,152 ----- 2,287
365 United States :: Texas :: Houston 419,614 ----- 2,185
Indecision May Or May Not Be My Problem.
2005 - "Thieves At Heart" -Lost - WIP
2006 - lost
2007 - "The Dytek Enterprises Field Agent Handbook" - Win! - WIP
2008 - "Rendor Paxon (working title) Win! WIP
2009 - "Hunt Starfire's Phantom Phliers" - ??
47,000 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 05 36
Looks like we need to pick it up a bit. Do your finger exercises and lets get to typing.
----------Sara Thacker
2006 NaNo - The Protector: Blood Demon Sacrifice on sale Jan 2010
7,388 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 09 33
This is so cool. I didn't know I was so impressionable but all of sudden after finding out about this I want to win, win, win. I better write 10k words today!!! : )
Happy writing everyone!
Katy
41,521 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 10 19
Not knowing where my book will end my minimal word count goal is 50K, but as they say, the sky's the limit!
I'm going with the same writing schedule I did last year and that's 2 hours in the morning before work and 1 hour of writing during lunch breaks. Instead of stopping at 1667 a day, I'm going to push myself to write more. So far today between this morning and lunch, I've written 1930. PLUS, I'm going to a write in for a couple of hours so I'll go for 3K today. :)
----------NaNoWriMo 2008 Winner -- A Special Case (Horror/Urban Fantasy)
NaNoWriMo 2009 -- Death Can Wait (Mainstreem Fiction)
34,370 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 10 23
Yay for YGJunkie challenging us!
Okay, I'm game. I can totally do this! I'm finally starting to get into the swing of my novel, too!
Too bad the word war widgets aren't working yet!
----------NaNo 2006: The Clearing of Lindsey (psychological thriller/drama/whatever)
NaNo 2007: ZOMBUNNIE! (satirical horror)
NaNo 2008: Sunny Side Up (romantic comedy drama thing)
NaNo 2009: Candy Land Dandily Dies (fantasy/adventure/kind of satirical)
120,520 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 10 50
I'm already where I anticipated being NEXT Sunday, and I have yet to close out my first chapter - I think it's fair to say I'll overshoot 50K if this is any indication of how it's going. I think now I'm just hoping to finish the darn thing IN November :P Regardless, I've put in about 1700 words today so far and I hadn't even anticipated having time to write today - so this is very exciting for me!!!
----------41,521 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 10 50
Question: if some of us hit the 50K early on (but are still writing) and you submit your word count on 11/27, does the site freeze your word count status or can you still update beyond that? Or do you have to wait until 11/30 at the very last minute to up your word count as high as possible before you claim your goodies?
----------NaNoWriMo 2008 Winner -- A Special Case (Horror/Urban Fantasy)
NaNoWriMo 2009 -- Death Can Wait (Mainstreem Fiction)
61,198 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 10 52
Nope. you can continue to re-validate until 11:59pm on the 30th.
Get those word counts up!
----------Indecision May Or May Not Be My Problem.
2005 - "Thieves At Heart" -Lost - WIP
2006 - lost
2007 - "The Dytek Enterprises Field Agent Handbook" - Win! - WIP
2008 - "Rendor Paxon (working title) Win! WIP
2009 - "Hunt Starfire's Phantom Phliers" - ??
63,223 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 11 31
Challenge? Count me in! I already accepted a 10K-words-on-first-day challenge and I won!
I'm hoping to go beyond the 50K mark, but if not, that's okay. I'll definitely make it to 50K.
See y'all at the finish line!
----------2004: Daniel In The Lion's Den (mystery/suspense)
2005: Two Women And A Girl: EGG, MAT, and MSG (mystery/suspense)
2007: Finding Emma Jane (fictionalized memoir)
2009: Foreplay (mystery/suspense)
20,010 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 12 49
Fingers poised to join in the fun madness...
If we win, will they invite us to Connecticut? Always wanted to go there...
36,674 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 18 13
It doesn't freeze until December 1, so you can keep going :)
----------~Jesso~
I'm writing my novel by poll! Vote for the plot of my novel on Livejournal and Twitter!