This is where the official sign ups begin! If you want to take part, please post in this thread - but only once! You can drop out until the 20th November without penalising the region, so if you're not sure about signing up, do it anyway, you can always decide to drop out later in the month!
If you have any questions about the word war, look in the rules thread to see if its answered there, or PM me, or leave a message in the banter thread.
I will be taking part this year, I'm aiming high!
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Lizzie - Suitable-Boy
Co-ML for Leeds and York
leeds_england[at]nanowrimo[dot]org
"The trouble with writing a novel is that literally anything can happen."
22,700 / 50,000
Oct 27, 2007 - 11 42
*arm twisted up own back*
Ok, I'm in. Alarm set for the 19th so I can get out again then if I'll only be letting you all down...
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Nano 05: Excess Baggage (chicklit) - finished at 50,100!
Nano 06: Moving on (literary fiction) - unfinished at 50,090!
Nano 07: something to do with elves in a wood... for kids
6,717 / 50,000
Oct 27, 2007 - 12 07
I'm in. Bring it on.
----------Claire - co-ML for England :: York & Leeds
Status (Bob): Eviction notices posted
Status (Me): Just get out of me, already.
Status (Novel): Almost taking shape
"Now one's bald, one's in a boat and they're both unconscious."
70,067 / 50,000
Oct 28, 2007 - 02 28
You can add me too. Short of being carried off by a beret wearing pterodactyl, I should be good for 50,000 words.
Although stranger things have happened...
However, this might encourage me to actually finish the novel, rather than just writing the wordage.
50,141 / 50,000
Oct 28, 2007 - 03 33
Yes, please count me in as well.
Chris
53,335 / 50,000
Oct 28, 2007 - 06 01
Yes, please, count me in.
----------Tosca
28,378 / 50,000
Oct 28, 2007 - 08 50
I guess I'm in now that I can pull out on the 20th if needs be.
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13,269 / 50,000
Oct 28, 2007 - 14 56
Oh, what the heck. I'm in!
----------2003 "Thunder and Rainbows." Success! (but story never finished.)
2004 "I Will Be Waiting." Failed (but story eventually finished!)
2005 Lets not go there!
2006 "The Last Throw of the Dice." Failed.
2007 "Déjà Brew." Who knows?!!!
50,083 / 50,000
Oct 28, 2007 - 15 27
I'm in, if I find a plot I may even stay in.
----------"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity."
50,365 / 50,000
Oct 28, 2007 - 17 03
I'm in too!
----------NaNo 2007 - Moths
2006 - The Eye of Rakaros
2005 - Approximate Destruction
2004 - JSBCBS
2003 - From Here To There
100,789 / 50,000
Oct 30, 2007 - 14 56
And me!
100,789 / 50,000
Oct 30, 2007 - 14 57
And me!
*hopes I stopped that before it posted* ...I may have trouble updating my count, because we're having trouble with our connection. Constantly. I can't predict it or anything, it just happens, and obviously when that's going on, I can't contact a mod. At all. So...
50,069 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2007 - 02 35
I'll be brave...count me in!
55,798 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2007 - 09 54
I guess I'll sign up too, *sigh* I might even stay, if my plot decides to be nice and come back from the holiday it took without telling me.
50,402 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2007 - 10 44
Sign me up. I'm hoping for 60-70k
52,937 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2007 - 13 37
On the one hand I'd really like to participate, but, erm... are you looking for people who are actually going to write *insane amounts*? See, I'm not aiming for anything high, just (tentatively) hoping to reach 60k+ -- though I'd be relieved with anything over 50k, heh. Also, my results from last year aren't terribly encouraging, since I left more than half of it til the last four days or something stupid like that, and ended up only winning by... what, eleven words? I don't want to let you down, or anything.
However, considering I can always withdraw if I seem to be failing miserably (or indeed failing at all), I'd really like to join in, if that's okay. I don't really mind, but I'd quite like the extra incentive-type-thing.
Thanks,
~Effel
----------2006 - LOL FAIL
2007 - FAIL FAIL FAIL
2,475 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2007 - 16 11
I might as well sign up too, if only for Effel's extra motivation point. I DO have a much more well-prepared story this year, but I can always drop out again if I don't make as much progress as I'm happy with.
I'm in (and with 50 minutes to spare :D)
----------"I'm sorry, Jay is out of his mind right now, please leave a message after the tone..."
2006: untitled - satirical science-fiction [lost, by a long long way]
2007: Navis Fortuna - cyberpunky science-fiction [2nd time lucky?]
160,056 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 04 37
Hi again,
The leader board has been updated and can be found here:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/1042010
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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+
43,180 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 04 44
count me in, lets show the other regions what we got! :)
50,297 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 14 03
count me in.
for now, at least ;)
85,265 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 14 26
I think we're still able to sign up aren't we? I know I'm a bit late, but I'm a nano-newbie so was unsure how it would go. If you want my count, I'm in.
28,378 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 15 04
Stalled, busy at work (being a new head of department makes me reviled and hated and thus all new policies are to be fought tooth-and-nail) and now I can't get going again. It means my word count is unlikely to change at all this month. So... as predicted, I hereby pull out of the running so I don't hold York and Leeds back.
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51,746 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2007 - 05 52
I'm in.
50,330 / 50,000
Nov 14, 2007 - 10 47
Just so everyone knows - the sign up has now closed.
You can drop out by the 20th November without affecting the region, but after that dropping out will be bad for us! So stay in, and write lots!
----------Lizzie - Suitable-Boy
Co-ML for Leeds and York
leeds_england[at]nanowrimo[dot]org
"The trouble with writing a novel is that literally anything can happen."
6,717 / 50,000
Nov 20, 2007 - 03 13
I suspect I've probably been disqualified already for not updating my wordcount, but I'm dropping out. Writing nothing for two weeks is no way to win a word war...
----------Claire - co-ML for England :: York & Leeds
Status (Bob): Eviction notices posted
Status (Me): Just get out of me, already.
Status (Novel): Almost taking shape
"Now one's bald, one's in a boat and they're both unconscious."