Here is where you can generally goad, annoy, humiliate and tease others with your verbose prowess... keep it relatively clean though please!
Although there is little point because obviously I am going to wipe the floor with the lot of you.
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"Curiosity is the cure for boredom. There is no cure for curiosity".
www.cyberllama.co.uk
160,056 / 50,000
Oct 26, 2007 - 02 58
Goad, annoy, tease? You certainly won't get anything of the sort from us, although how you could possibly imagine that you'd be able to beat the mighty Cambridge I have no idea. :-)
Now, what was it I came here for? Oh yes:
Just to let you know, the regions currently signed up for the Word War are Cambridge, Darlington and Manchester. We're still waiting for replies from the other regions. Even last year's champions seem to be running scared...
50,138 / 50,000
Oct 26, 2007 - 03 27
If I did I'd be being a bit hypocritical probably.
160,056 / 50,000
Oct 27, 2007 - 03 05
That's what we like to hear, someone who's accepted defeat already! :-)
I like your sig - my thoughts exactly! The fact that I have a 'kind of' beginning and a 'sort of' ending, and absolutely no idea what's going to happen in between doesn't scare me at all, honest. No really. :-o
Burble...
Anyway, thought you might like to know that London have decided to join us in our little conflict. Feel free to wander over to their forum and give them hell! :-)
L
52,590 / 50,000
Oct 27, 2007 - 09 58
I'm feeling quietly confident about myself and my fellow Darloites. If we pull together and throw around loads of those really irritating, annoying management phrases like ' Proactive' and............. Okay, that's all I can think of, but I'll say it a lot until people write more and faster.
160,056 / 50,000
Oct 29, 2007 - 05 28
You could always split it up into 'pro active', that way you gain a word straight off! During November my hyphen key mysteriously breaks, no idea why...
Oxfordshire have deigned to join us, by the way, so the current entrants are:
Cambridge
Darlington
London
Manchester
Oxfordshire.
Edit: Ireland::Elsewhere
I'll let you know if/when this changes.
Good luck. :-)
50,287 / 50,000
Oct 30, 2007 - 01 58
erm, guys? No-one has actually signed up yet??!! go add your names to the other thread, otherwise I'll cry...
50,138 / 50,000
Oct 30, 2007 - 09 46
Aw, we don't want that, do we???
50,138 / 50,000
Oct 30, 2007 - 09 47
Aw, we don't want that, do we???
160,056 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2007 - 03 51
Oxfordshire have deigned to join us, by the way, so the current entrants are:
Cambridge
Darlington
London
Manchester
Oxfordshire.
Edit: Ireland::Elsewhere
I'll let you know if/when this changes.
Good luck. :-)
You know it's really weird the way it won't let me edit some posts, but will others...
Anyway, we've been joined by Brighton too. I'm off to chase up a couple of regions that expressed interest but haven't gotten back to me...
*Hugs*
Lottie
ML for Europe::England:: Cambridge
cambridge_england[at]nanowrimo[dot]org
2007: Rising Angels, Falling Apes - ??
2006: An Ordinary World - 84k+
2005: Dreaming of Jack - 83k+
160,056 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2007 - 04 39
Back again...
The regions competing so far are:
Brighton
Cambridge
Essex
Darlington
Ireland::Elsewhere
London
Manchester
Oxfordshire
Scotland
York & Leeds
We're still waiting to hear from a few others.
Good luck everyone. :-)
L
50,043 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2007 - 05 19
Hello, this is Danny P. the England:Manchester ML.
Seeing as though it's now less than 12 hours until NaNo begins, I just thought I'd apologize for how badly my region is going to beat Darlington.
I'm afraid it's true, Manchester is actually a large Writing Machine sent back in time to obliviate any competition in the RWW for 2007...
-Danny P.
51,068 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2007 - 07 54
Well, what did you expect from Darlington? I mean *DARLINGTON* for crying out loud!
Do you know what the most popular book is at Darlington Library?
The Argos catalogue.
We (Manchester) will win this easily.
52,590 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2007 - 11 51
Come, my fellow Darloites, we may now drop the ruse and begin the obliteration of all comers. The years of meditation and training we have been putting ourselves through for this moment is drawing near. Let us make our Tibetan masters proud and show these grasshoppers what a REAL word count looks like.
50,287 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2007 - 13 42
I am amazed that people in Manchester actually believe they know 50000 words, let alone be capable of writing them.... :-)
50,287 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2007 - 13 42
I am amazed that people in Manchester actually believe they know 50000 words, let alone be capable of writing them.... :-)
50,043 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2007 - 05 23
Indeed we do, and we don't need to say the same thing twice to get there ;-)
-Danny P.
52,590 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2007 - 15 05
Yeah, but we wanted to make sure you got the messgae and we don't have the time to type things slowly in capitals for you. :P
160,056 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2007 - 14 38
Hi Everyone,
The first leader board is up and can be found here:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/1042010
L
160,056 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2007 - 16 03
Hi again,
The leader board has been updated and can be found here:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/1042010
59,531 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2007 - 04 57
I'm a newbie so forgive the daq - what's Word War?
160,056 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 04 42
Hi again,
Transcriber: A Word War is when people try to out do each other on the number of words they can write over the course of Nanowrimo.
A regional Word War, like this one, is where people from each region team up and try to out do all the other regions by writing more words than them.
The winning region is the one with the highest average word count at the end of the month, or the region with the highest proportion of participants who win! (ie get 50k+). Clear as mud? :-)
If you're interested in taking part please see the Rules thread first. You have until 8pm on the 10th.
For everyone else:
The leader board has been updated and can be found here:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/1042010
50,287 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 05 04
HA! I knew we could beat Cambridge!!!
But why are we lagging behind the Scots, peeps?? Didn't realise they'd be able to find their keyboards under all the kebab wrappers.....
*cracks whip encouragingly*
52,590 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 13 44
Careful with that whip! You'll have some kinky buggers eye out! I'm writing as fast as I can, please don't hurt me any more! DO we get more stickers if we write lots more?
50,287 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 15 16
there might be stickers... there might even be CAKE on saturday....
50,097 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2007 - 06 42
Oooh cake!
50,079 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2007 - 08 30
I get to miss out on both cake AND stickers?!
NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
52,590 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2007 - 14 38
CAKE!? STICKERS?! WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO?!?!?!?!?!?!?! I will type hot coals and through storms and rough seas for cake AND stickers... I never dreamed that starting this for a second year could lead to cake.... The wife wants to know if her and sprog can have cake. Do I have to sign them up first? I think my little girl could hammer on the keyboard enough to get 50,000 words as long as lrsuidgjk, SE>Kjtsrjkkistu45i, and kaljuerdkxdlilkzdrli count as words.
50,287 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2007 - 14 57
*chocolate* cake too!! Though we may have to smuggle it in to Neros and munch it surreptitiously under the tables since we will be very obviously not buying their own £2.25 a slice effort....
See this, Manchester and Cambridge??? You lot may be beating us on words, but we are the real winners with CAKE and STICKERS!!!
(and Rummy - of course Wife and Sprog can have cake. but I thought Sproglette wasn't allowed cake yet? shall I make liquid cake? actually I did make liquid cake quite by accident the other day by 'warming' cake in an industrial microwave and accidently nuking it.... but if you put enough cream on top it was perfectly good.... um... gonna shuttup now)
160,056 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2007 - 15 11
Hi
The leader board has been updated and can be found here:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/1042010#comment-262934
Hmmm, cake...
50,097 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2007 - 04 24
NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
There's only one thing for it Doc Hilda, you're going to have to move.