If you want to see your word count charted against other Wrimos in the St. Louis region, please reply to this post.
(give it a few minutes to show up--some things have to go on under the hood first!)
In your reply, why don't you give us a wacky quote from your main character? Please, no profanity: this is an all ages forum. Your characters can curse all they want in your novel, just don't post it here. If your post is deleted you will have to post again to show up on the graph.
~j
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Municipal Liaison for St. Louis, MO
Previous NaNovels: King Arthur, angels, dragons, the Forest Lord, and prostitutes. Apparently this year it's folks rising from the dead.
aspirations: http://etoiline.com
15,457 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 20 12
This should be interesting. I'm doing well at the moment, so why not?
As for a quote... she never really says anything wacky. But how about a small excerpt?
“Where am I?” She asked.
----------“I told you before, Miss White. You are at my inn. Gulls Wing Inn, of Yorktown, Virginia. Do you not recall?”
“Umm... yes, I remember. Maybe I should also ask.... When.... am I?”
Mrs. Jothers gave her another one of those looks. Arleigh was beginning to see the incredulity that laced those looks.
“This is April 12th, 1859, Miss White. It’s Tuesday.”
~Andi~
2009 ~*~ Historical Fiction ~*~ When the Time Comes ~*~ First Year -- We'll see!
52,334 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 20 47
Reply.
Quote: "You said to wear coat and tie, you never said anything about wearing pants!"
----------As kids we fried ants with magnifying glasses. Now that we are adults we fry characters in far more interesting ways with plot twists
10,011 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 00 05
Oh, I'll have some of that, just out of sheer curiousity.
12,717 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 02 24
OK, put me in too. Though I'm behind.
35,426 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 04 29
Reply....
Quote: Could he be any more boring? I mean who cares about Getty's dress and where in my future will I ever need to know this? Oh wait, it's the Gettysburg Address.
----------65,856 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 04 32
Put me in. I'm secretly much more competitive than I let on.
Tolek snorted. "Garn has the uncalloused hands of a babe. I'd wager he's never even spilled blood. In my mind, there is no honor in killing a foe when there is no doubt of the outcome."
82,070 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 06 19
Ben: "I don't want to see his popscicle."
----------"Not a Rose but a Thistle" -- 2005 (Win)
"Welcome To Lamentation!" -- 2006 (Win)
"A Saint Nobody's Heard Of " -- 2007 (Win)
"Nympho-izing Love Goo!" (working title) -- 2008 (Win)
"Like Getting Honey From a Stone" -- 2009
53,483 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 07 24
Ooh, pick me pick me! I too have a secret competitive streak I'll never admit to out loud. (oh, wait, I just did.)
I don't have a quote to share. I'm at work without access to my novel at the moment. I don't think there's much worth sharing in there just yet anyway. 13,772 words of crap. I like the story, just not the writing. Oh well.
Jen
----------Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul. – M.K. Simmons
http://www.jenniferksights.com
40,100 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 09 42
Count me in. Literally. :)
I'm so excited for the first time ever its day 2 and I'm not behind!
Here's my quote.
"Jack, come on down, you could be the proud owner of a nice top of the line water buffalo!"
----------www.hellotanya.blogspot.com
46,284 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 09 49
OK, here's my quote:
"Come on, hand it over, I fought on eBay for that one."
She handed the package to him and he sat on the bed, tearing it open. Packing peanuts flew out and he extracted something wrapped in bubble wrap. It was about six inches long, flat and narrow and dark. He slid out a metal blade and she laughed.
"A razor? What are you, Sweeney Todd?"
Stuart waggled his eyebrows at her. "The Demon Barber of Fleet Street? Hell yes!"
----------http://www.quantumtea.com/blog/
42,075 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 10 33
I like this ranking, even if I am off to a slower start this year. :)
“You really are a beautiful woman, but I’m afraid there’s been a misunderstanding.” I paused to take a gulp from my sweating water goblet.
Janet laughed and filled my wine glass from the bottle of Pinot Grigio on the table. “Relax. I’m not here to seduce you.”
I didn’t relax, but I found myself able to set down my water glass long enough to switch over to wine.
82,436 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 11 34
I think I have this chart from last year still bookmarked on my laptop. Count me in!
Quote:
Nearly an hour was spent pleasantly obliterating noobs before he said, “So I gave Audrey a puppy.”
Joe, always eloquent, said, “Huh,” and took out three Nazis. “What kind of puppy?”
“It’s a Boston Terrier. Little dog. Black and white, looks like it caught a parked car.”
----------The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. ~~ Jane Wagner
30,071 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 12 06
I'm in...
Sarah says to tell you that she doesn't have any cool quotes yet but that her crazy author needs to stop procrastinating and write the "damn scene I keep laying out beautifully!!!" :)
----------Missy :)
Smile. Take a deep breath. Write like a maniac!!!
35,602 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 13 03
Add me! I'm feeling high on my word count today, 7407 and climbing. For me, that's a really good start.
Quote:
----------“You’re funny, but you’re kind of a heartless bitch sometimes.”
“That’s not news to me, unfortunately. I hear it’s a curable condition, but my health insurance won’t cover the drugs.”
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http://rebekahj81.com
NaNo 2008: A Bottle of White
NaNo 2009: (as yet untitled)
50,212 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 13 39
And the answer is...
----------Pat
25,158 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 17 21
Add me in, please! :)
Quote: . “Gene put our toast in a faulty toaster, and its radioactivity made me temporarily two inches taller. . . I’m my normal height again, though. My pants will fit today.”
42,933 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 18 58
"They make baby gates to protect us from zombies?" I said, affecting a half-wit's expression.
----------"No my friend, they make baby gates to protect us from babies. Vicious little buggers."
- Robert
39,311 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 21 57
Count me in.
I don't have a wacky quote from my main character yet. But as a writer of horrendously bad spy novels, I can give you a sample of his prose:
Studd Peterson looked into the diamond eyes of the heiress, the dark-haired beauty that he had just saved from being killed by the ill-fated super-villain. And said, "one day, when I have killed all the super-villians of the world, you and I will go to Paris and visit museums with real art, not the kind you buy at Bed, Bath, and Beyond."
40,025 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 22 07
Bwahahah! SpongeJim, I love it! Your character name is priceless.
----------Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. There’s only one rule I know of—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind. - Kurt Vonnegut
1,722 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 22 41
my quote from Mattie: 'great' I think 'now the Georges are having a weird baby and its going to make me not even want to think about having a kid around them at all'
38,373 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 03 06
Dang, so many people are so far ahead of the daily portion wordcount-wise!
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Dean’s pissed, and the Red Hat Society thinks he’s a creepy rapist. Great.
87,160 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 07 29
Okay, ready for ranking. This is a quote from one of my secondary characters.
"I give up. My sister marries that hothead. And now my daughter is playing with the wild man. What do I know? I married the love of my life. He gave me diamonds and many houses, then he took them all away along with everything I brought into the marriage and all the savings I’d worked so hard for all these years. At least I still have you."
----------2006 SF: "Bella Transfigured"
2007 Mainstream: "Novena"
2008 SF/F: "Wanderer #1: The Oracle's Gifts"
2008 SF/F: "Wanderer #2: Sky Ships of Ciello"
2009 SF: completed: "Wanderer #3: Unsettled"
2009 Mainstream: in progress: "Reading in the Dark"
52,334 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 07 54
SO yeah, for any of you that looked at the graph this morning and went "WTF? InjunJoe already won with 110k+ words?" That was a typo, one too many zeros.
----------As kids we fried ants with magnifying glasses. Now that we are adults we fry characters in far more interesting ways with plot twists
51,011 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 08 16
I feel that I'm doing respectably, in light of the fact I have a brand new job (like in the past week) and am teaching...
Okay, quote from my character...
"The second I threw my ugly maroon cap in the air, I felt my life change. It was one of those moments that you remember for the rest of your life, frozen in time, and forever colored by the emotions that went along with it."
----------42,130 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 10 01
Yeah, throw me on that graph. Bowling night and open mic night slowed me down, but I'm getting ready to lay down some serious wordage.
----------actortommyd
St. Charles, MO
Title: Cupid, Inc.
Genre: Fantasy
30,016 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 12 12
I'm behind, unfortunatley...
Just a random quote:
----------"Well, what do you want *me* to do"
50,057 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 17 47
"She moved her hand back up the leg and began shaking it. The moaning definitely increased but she still couldn’t tell which one of the guys it was. A moment later she thought of using her cell phone. It might show enough light to see what had happened. She reached into the little pocket at the small of her back and pulled out the phone. Flipping it on, she lit up the body and immediately saw the blood."
16,162 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 21 00
Ok, here it is. I have a great plan for success: I will start slow and then pace myself.
As far as a whacky quote goes, things are not all that whacky at the moment in my novel, so here is a random quote.
“You have chosen a harsh path and no one should have to walk that path alone. Step forward and greet your guide on this journey. Let him guide your first steps so that you do not fall from the heights out of ignorance. Your parents must leave now and the order will take up their task. Your guide will help fill that role in your first days. Step forward bravely and look back no more at your old life.”
36,056 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 09 04
I'm happy enough with my word count, and even like the manuscript a little. Here's a 'cerpt:
I watched as he drove his dented up little gray heap around to the parking lot's exit, turned right, and accelerated hard. I had a strong impulse to follow him.
The last time I made an impulsive decision, it led to running from a drug bust, breaking and entering, lying to the police, and hitching a ride with the love child of Anthony Hopkins and the Cookie Monster.
I pulled out in front of a sports car, ignored his horn, and turned right and, reluctantly, edited my post. Censorship chaps my ass.
44,447 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 10 21
Yeah, put me on the chart!
Quote:
"We all thought all the people in the video were too ridiculous and just lacked common sense. There's no way any of those things would happen to us."