Hello! My name is Tim aka NewMexicoKid, one of three co-Municipal Liaisons for the United States::Illinois::Naperville region. In honor of your fine MLs, I'd like to offer you a friendly word count graph (click through the image to be taken to a page with more details).
Instructions
Please reply to this post if you want to be included in the graph. The scanposts tool automatically updates the graphs about once an hour, so be patient in waiting to be added.
As an extra fun point, please include the last (family-friendly!) dramatic paragraph from your novel-in-progress.
Enjoy!
--Tim
P.S. Note: it will take about an hour after my initial posting for the graph to appear above, so if you don't see one up there, don't worry. :-)
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Tim Yao aka NewMexicoKid
co-ML, Illinois::Naperville
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60,200 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 08 59
okay, then... Hi!
And my last paragraph: I wouldn’t think about that. I was not going to think about that. Lia was dead now, and I had left just as she thought I should, and hopefully Harold and Kata and Medi were good and right. Especially Medi.
lallalala...
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50,820 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 16 04
That's quite a cool little tool there! And here's my last paragraph too... :D
“I’m so sorry mamma! I promised I would make you proud! But here I am, alone, in the slums and I’ve even lost my heart. I don’t know what to do without you. Without love in my life. What do I do?” As if to answer a light somewhere flickered on, it’s beam shooting directly through the window, landing upon a shovel that lay abandoned in the room. This caused her to chuckle. Her mum’s favourite catchphrase involved spades. ‘If life deals you a bad hand, then simply use the spades to hit back.’ (Advice that her mom took literally in the great Zombie uprising of the 50s, becoming known as Decapitating Delilah amongst her fans and enemies.))
----------2008: A Turtle, And Other Things That Destroyed The World - On Hold
2009: The Floating City - Finishing and Editing
126,020 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 16 08
Wow, thats really cool. thanks :D
and my last paragraph is
Eveyone nodded and we quickly set up a roata so everyone got some sleep. I stayed on first watch with Jace as everyone else went to sleep. I looked over to him and noticed that once again there was a slight redness to his face. I couldn't tell if it was the light from the fire, or if he was hot. It was there, thats all I knew.
not much, should have show you the one from earlier was nicer, lols.
sue
----------Love is Love, who are we to judge if it is right or wrong.
The Burning Quills
2007 - WIN - Death's Messenger: The Journey Starts
2008 - WIN - Death's Messenger: The Journey Continues
2009 - WiN - Kaspira War Trillogy Book One - Jace's Hope,
52,821 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 04 34
I love little gizmos like this so would love to be included; hopefully a diagonal line like this is what i need to give me a perpetual kick up the backside. ^,^
Also, I don't know what my most recent paragraph is, as I'm at work. Something to do with hospitals and the MC's wife, I think...
162,811 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 05 42
Thanks for doing this for us Tim. :)
My last paragraph:
Zach dropped Myra off at the gate of her house without another word. His mind was too focused on other things. He couldn't think straight. It felt as though history was repeating itself and he couldn't let that happen. Had he spurred Myra on with all this talk of mutiny? Was that the reason that she had managed such a pivitol step without any help from them? Was the same thing that was happening with her was what happened with Sinead all those many years ago? He couldn't think. He couldn't let it happen again! It wasn't good and he had to stop it. He had to stop it now.
45,584 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 10 56
Me!
My last paragraph, if you count speech, is:
"Olive, you yourself have admitted that in your good periods you are a very sociable girl, but in your darker times, you are virtually a recluse. I know we have tried to implement more sociability into your schedule, but it has led to little improvement. I am of the opinion that you need a stronger support network, one in which you can have no embarrassment because their problems are like yours, and they can understand where you are coming from. I believe that you may find this beneficial, if you actually tried it. Of course, as your therapist I can insist you attend as part of your treatment-"
----------Alison/snuffy
32,790 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 18 09
me like, me like!
And a quote...
I wasn't ready for it, so surely my retinas had not quite grasped the whole picture.
----------2009 - "On Tuesday"
http://www.damonlord.info
50,232 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2009 - 04 45
Uh, I'd like to be involved, if it isn't too late! ^^ *raiseshand*
And I don't actually have my novel on me at the moment~ apologies! D: I'm at college!
50,178 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2009 - 11 53
hi,
Yeah, can i join in on the fun too. Prety Please. I know i'm slow on the uptake, but i'm more than willing.
And my last papragraph:
'Jacob downed the last of his cider as Gabriel did the same, knowing that the evening was coming to an end. But what he learned was interesting stuff, and he would have to get Gabriel to talk about it more often. Especially if he could get him to talk about one of his own. Oh yes, now that would be good'
Not much of a give away or indeed dramatic,
Tim.
NaNo09 - Confessions of a serial killer.
27,304 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2009 - 18 39
Can I be added? I don't think I'll post my last paragraph as it involves things that would warp my mind if I were to read it again.
50,333 / 50,000
Nov 13, 2009 - 06 56
Add me please!
Although I don't have my last paragraph to hand, I do recall it did involve expletives and therefore wouldn't qualify as family friendly.
52,077 / 50,000
Nov 14, 2009 - 11 37
Add me! Please?
“Huntress, I assure you all is proceeding as planned.” I said, hiding my terror, I was good at masking my emotions, years and years of practice helped. I just hoped the terror was irrational and Huntress would not punish her favourite pet. I mean how hungry could she be?
----------Can't stay home can't stay at school, old folks say, you poor little fool - Cherry Bomb, The Runaways
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52,821 / 50,000
Nov 23, 2009 - 16 22
Bumping this for my own benefit, mostly. because I find the stats incredibly useful and encouraging, especially the Nanolyser things you can follow the links toward. Much better than the thing on my My NaNoWriMo page. Thanks again for doing this, yo ^,^
And seeing as I didn't provide a quote beforehand:
There was no reply, of course. Tetsuo figured these men were probably going to start getting rowdier as the night wore on, but he would leave this place before it became too late, or before his tab became too expensive. In due course, he watched as the group became louder and more rude to the patrons. He watched as the group of four by the window decided to give in and leave the building.
"Hey, gorgeous!" the older man leered to the woman with the golden-blonde hair. "Give me your number and I'll show you a good time, eh?"
She stared at him coldly. "I'm a man."
The gang all jeered as she walked out the building with a dignified huff, before turning on their friend whose advances had been spurned.
50,232 / 50,000
Nov 24, 2009 - 03 17
I completely agree! :D
I didn't post an extract myself, either, so here's mine...
“Ladies and gentlemen,” blared the loudspeaker over the hubbub of the crowd, “tonight’s performance will begin in fifteen minutes - that’s right, fifteen minutes - in the main tent. Tickets only four pounds for adults and three for children - and under fives go free! Make your way over for tonight’s circus extravaganza-!”
“Oh dear…” sighed Stan.
It was harsh business, being in entertainment. The noise of the crowd. The heat of the lights. Having the kids gape at you; most missing a few teeth and dribbling some sort of sweet, multicoloured goo that they had mercilessly bullied their parents into buying for them.
53,795 / 50,000
Nov 24, 2009 - 13 17
Great Graph
Victor sat on the edge of the bed, examining the blade of his sword. Briga watched with increasing alarm and irritation.
‘What are you doing?’ She asked finally.
‘Nothing,’ Victor replied calmly as he ran his finger along the edge of the blade. ‘Just go to sleep.’
‘How can I go to sleep when you are doing that?’
‘Something is not right. These strangers that Brother Leo told us about, there is something wrong. I don’t like it.’
‘You can’t become like this every time you hear about strangers.’
‘I don’t.’
‘I know. But, if they have disappeared… Well, perhaps they have just gone home,’
‘Not likely.’ Victor shook his head and sheathed his sword and set it down by the bed within easy reach of his hand. ‘I feel something is trying to tell me something.’
‘I am trying to tell you something. Come to bed.’ Briga reached out and grasped Victor’s arm and pulled him down to her.
(Quantity not Quality!)
----------Stephen Quentin
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59,181 / 50,000
Nov 24, 2009 - 22 19
D'oh - only just spotted how easy it was to get added into this. Silly me, I could have done with this three weeks ago :)
They headed on upwards. It was getting easier; Pete forged ahead, Jane, full of confidence now, headed after, and Charlie brought up the rear. Finally the gulley ended in a steep slope. Fifteen feet above was the sky, was open ground; but the very top, the last foot or so, overhung.
----------Pete reached it first and stopped for a moment. Jane and Charlie reached him, and he started up. With a bit of thought and a lot of effort, he finally managed to clamber over the top and disappeared from view.
“That was …”
“Not as bad as it looked?” Charlie said, interrupting him. No point in spooking Jane now. “Ready?”
Jane grabbed the rock, and stopped just below the lip.
“What do I do now?” she said.
“Climb over the top,” Charlie said.
Jane looked down. Charlie smiled encouragingly, but that wasn’t going to be enough. She clambered up behind. “Can you reach the top there?” Charlie said.
Jane reached up. Charlie came close behind, wedging a foot in the rock, and tried to push. Pete reached over the top and pulled, and a moment later, all three of them were sitting on the top of the outcrop.
Suddenly you could see the whole world again: they had emerged, out of the darkness of the gulley, out of the bowels of the lock, and into the sunlight. A light wind blew over the rock, but the sun shone, and it felt like freedom.
Tom
I think therefore I am pretentious.
58,688 / 50,000
Nov 25, 2009 - 11 46
Ohhh that's pretty cool. I'll post my last paragraph when I have chance :D
52,077 / 50,000
Nov 25, 2009 - 14 00
My mistake by using 'hungry' instead of 'angry' makes me both laugh and cringe. Haha.
----------Can't stay home can't stay at school, old folks say, you poor little fool - Cherry Bomb, The Runaways
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