The countdown is ON! (counting hours, days and words...)

Hi ho!

Yvonne being at work, I thought I could entertain you a little, so that the wait doesn't seem to be too long! :)

So, this thread is ALL about counting as it stated!

* HOURS => until the kick down at 00.01 (don't forget to set your alarm-clock and join us on gmail tonight!!)

* WORDS => starting tonight, let's support each other by having fun over our wordcount! Please share some good numbers and why not... some good words in this thread! :)

* DAYS => of course, Nano means... 30 days! So you might hear a few screaming as the deadline approaches! This thread is for that too... counting the days and getting stressed! ^^

And on that note... HAPPY COUNTING!!!
(and Happy Halloween too!)

Suzanne

Hello Demoiselle,

I count, you count, we count. Great idea.

Each of us should post a new word for the betterment of our vocabulary. The must not necessarily be in English.

My word for the day is : augean, adj meaning extremely difficult, unpleasant, or filthy.

If one word is offered per day then we'll have 30 new spiffy words in whatever vocabulary.

Who's game for this?

can i make the word for tomorrow? i've got a good one. ;)
yesterday was great!
ok bye i've got some writing to do!

ada

Sure Ada, we're looking forward to your word tomorrow! :)

5got some writing to do too! Have been busy editing writings so now I already feel like beyond schedule, aaaargh!)

Suzanne

On the first day of NaNoWriMo 2011 we wrote a total of

18.217 words!!!

Proud of everyone, I am!

We can do it!!

Have a great day
Yvonne

so. my word today is:
nyctophobia.
\nik-tuh-FOH-bee-uh\. :)
which means: fear of night or darkness.
the word stems from the greek nyktos- meaning night and phobia meaning fear.
god i love etymologies.
okay, so here's another one:
nyctophilia. love of night and darkness.
aaaaand here's a shakespeare quote, cause that's what i like to do.

"Come, gentle night; come, loving black-browed night,
Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun."
-Juliet, Romeo & Juliet, 3:2

and yes, my book is about night and darkness.
bye!

One of my favourite passages from Shakespeare!
Fitting perfectly to your word(s) of the day :-) Nice nice!

And hooray for the stats, it seems like so, so many words when it's all thrown in together.

No fancy words yet, sorry :( but a Word Count of 3.381. Not bad for the beginning. 8D

Wow great choice of words!! I might actually write them down not to forget them! :)

OK 281 words written this morning, and 1h12 before the meet-up with Mina (aka Larys)!

(and congrats on the word count Olivia! :)

Suzanne

Finished with 5.772 words yesterday ... still no fancy words, but a very telling phrase by my FMC about family additions: "diaper terrorists".

It came up as I wrote the EPIlogue yesterday evening (go figure! ;D), and she must deal with it perforce.

Hi, all,
Wow, I'm so impressed by you all! Lots of amazing progress. You are all writing superstars!

I wrote 1,722 words on the first day. Yesterday, I spent the entire day flying to Mumbai. Bleeah. I took my laptop out intending to write on the plane, but ended up watching movies and reading magazines instead. So much for good intentions!

I'm off to try to make up some time. Keep writing!

Hooray, I just hit 8k! I think I'll stop for today and leave the 10k mark for tomorrow :-)

Keep writing guys, you're all doing a fantastic job so far!!

OMG Steph!!! Do you ever sleep??? I painfully went over 5k today, I plan on writing more, but with the good old pen and paper in my bed! XD

(I tell you, work is a waste of time... I haven't reach my 1k target today yet! <= this is pure frustration. However, I'm starting to be an expert on polar stations... if somebody is interested...)

Suzanne

Now now, don't make me blush >.<

But thanks :-D

Just had a really good start on the first day and I'm trying to keep up writing at least the daily word count. Maybe a little more over the weekend again if the muse can be tickled into cooperating.

I do agree though, work is quite the waste of time sometimes, especially when it comes in the way of NaNo!

Hm, I see I will have to step it up a bit :).

All, kudos on hitting the thousands-per-day level! I am truly inspired.

Yesterday, I wrote 1,748. I don't expect to write much over the weekend, so I'll have to try for more today and next week.

Suzanne, polar stations?! Intriguing.

Have a great day, and here's to forcing the muse to show up! Dawn

OK, very important notice in line with the topic... *rolls drumm*

WRITE-IN IS TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!

How cool is that? :)

(*waves "hi" to everyone in the topic, have to rush now, super later and can't miss the train!!*)

Suzanne

8.849 words until now! 8D I have not a word, but an expression, a medical term: Bipolar Disorder.

It's a mental disorder characterized first by extreme good (mania) and bad (depression) moods and secondarily (often overlooked!) by the conflict between the reality of the sufferer (influenced by the moods) and the reality of all others (which often causes social tensions between sufferer and the public and can intensify the symptoms).

My FMC has Bipolar ... and I do have it, too. :)

Finished the day with 9.235 words and am pretty dead right now. :P Now I deserve some good night's sleep so ... GOOD NIGHT ALL! :D

*rushes in*

5h10 BEFORE THE WRITING-UP!!!!!!!!

*jumps hysterically on beds to wake up everyone*

Wake up folks!!! It's today! It's today!!

Suzanne
(grinning behind her screen)

THIS IS NOT FAIR.
suzanne, i wanted to do the exact same thing you just did.
but i guess i slept longer.

anyway, i'm going to see you all.
SOON! SOON! SOON!

<3
ada