Post those word counts folks! We'll crush them !
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Bellingham Region
48° 47' 59" N
122° 31' 47" W
Sol System, Milky Way Galaxy
Universal CurveSpace Code #39-255
To Whom it may or may not concern:
The Bellingham NaNoWriMo region is formally challenging you to an epic word count battle during the Earth month of November, 2007. Should your name appear on the following list, you should consider yourself challenged, except in the case of typo.
Bellingham hereby challenges the following people, places, things and concepts:
Andorra, Antarctica, The Amish, Ankh-Morpork, Antwerp, Azerbaijan, Cambridge, The Cast of Lost, The Color Green, Cthulhu, Death Valley, Alexander Dumas, Estonia, The Everglades, Existentialism, Faerie (and all other spellings), Fairbanks AK, Kevin Federline, Fiji, Neil Gaiman, The Galapagos Islands, Happy Jack AZ, Harvard, Hogwarts, The Holy Roman Empire, Victor Hugo, Humptulips WA, Idaho, Isle of Mann, Spider Jerusalem, Kazakhstan, Caroline Keene, Kermit the Frog, Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Microsoft Campus, Middle Earth, Mongolia, Neverland, Normal IL, Okeefenokee Swamp, Oxford, Peru, Pluto, Princeton, Pullman, Quebec, Ranch Peñasquitos, Santa Claus, Saskatchewan, South Sandwich Islands, Spokane, Stanford, Superman, Jonathan Swift, Tajikistan, Tazmania, Thomas Jefferson's descendents, Tilamook, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, U.S.S. Enterprise – D, Uzbekistan, Vatican City, Doctor Venture, Andrew Lloyd Webber, The World Fantasy Convention, Wyoming, Yale.
If you are not on the list, but have received this challenge in error, then you are challenged anyway. Wordcounts will be compared at the end of November!
Additionally, if you are not on the list, and would like your region to be added to the list of challengers to Bellingham, Washington, then please leave a comment in our regional forum, or send nanomail to the Bellingham Municipal Liaison, kefururi.
With Subdued Excitement,
Bellingham, WA.
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~ grae
NaNoWriMo:
2007 - The Flash Pointe Cafe (win!)
2006 - An Advanced State of Shock (win!)
ScriptFrenzy:
2008 - in progress
76,012 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2007 - 15 06
A little sneaky snooping reveals that Bellingham has 80,321 words credited to their their regional tally, while Spokane is almost 7,300 words behind with only 73,054 collective words. It's time to get busy writing!!
Sure, they've got 40 more people affiliated with their region, but we have no way of knowing how many of their affiliates are actually homed in Bellingham -- the regional tally only tracks those authors "homed" in any particular region, and how many of those are actually participating this year.
If you haven't checked lately -- please make sure your home region is set for Spokane, so we can benefit from your wordcount. Right now, Spokane has only 157 "home region" authors, out of the 211 who are affiliated. But, out of that 157, almost 70 are legacy usernames, who have not yet checked in on the website or posted any word count for 2007. That leaves us with around 90 active home region authors.
If you're on the Spokane Region list and have not designated a home region, check your NaNoMail -- If I haven't already, I'll be sending you a gentle reminder soon to choose your home region. Also, the last time the Author search function was working I compiled a a short list of about 10 authors whose profiles reveal they live in the Spokane area, but are not affiliated with Spokane, and have no home region designated. Please take a moment to check to make sure you have a home region designated.
[shameless plug] Tonight will be the perfect opportunity to bump your word count -- join us at our Head-Start All-Night Write In from 10:00 pm to 6:00 at La Quinta Inn on N. Sullivan (near Spokane Industrial Park). You'll find directions on our Spokane Events Map:
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Samantha
50,550 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2007 - 16 14
Hi there,
Don't forget you have also been challenged by Alaska region.
:-)
Alaska HSM
----------Anchorage, AK ML
2006 winner: Scraps of the Heart
76,012 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2007 - 19 45
Now here's a worthy opponent - Alaska has written 151,416 words so far, almost double Spokane's word count. Of course they are also almost double our size, but that won't stop us!!
Don't forget you have also been challenged by Alaska region.
:-)
Alaska HSM
Anchorage, AK ML
16,356 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2007 - 21 51
Support coming from my part tomorrow.
I had gum graft surgery today and still drugged up...check that, tomorrow or Sunday.
I have substantial story lines, plot content, and character introduction scenes not yet written but very fleshed out in mind and much dictated and waiting to be transcribed - hope about 10,000 words worth.
Craswling back to the machine,
Tom
----------Be bold, have fun but take care out there, when you are most impressed, there is often less there than meets the eye.
- Tom
16,356 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2007 - 21 52
Support coming from my part tomorrow.
I had gum graft surgery today and still drugged up...check that, tomorrow or Sunday.
I have substantial story lines, plot content, and character introduction scenes not yet written but very fleshed out in mind and much dictated and waiting to be transcribed - hope about 10,000 words worth.
Crawling back to the machine,
Tom
----------Be bold, have fun but take care out there, when you are most impressed, there is often less there than meets the eye.
- Tom
11,484 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2007 - 22 55
I dunno if I can be the powerhouse I was last year but I'll certainly give it a shot...
25,085 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2007 - 16 35
Getting anything done with a 2 month old that won't let me put him down is an even bigger challenge than I anticipated! At least Grace took regular naps the first time I did this when she was 7 mos. old.
50,103 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2007 - 17 46
Quote: "The only one I really care about is Spokane, and we're totally kicking their asses. :-D" KMcdonald
Are we going to let them get away with that Spokane?? Post those wordcounts!
----------~ grae
NaNoWriMo:
2007 - The Flash Pointe Cafe (win!)
2006 - An Advanced State of Shock (win!)
ScriptFrenzy:
2008 - in progress
50,039 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2007 - 23 38
Just wait till Monday :D I'll be kicking out words like crazy. Nothing like being locked up in an empty room with nothing but a laptop for distraction. And no internet connection.
76,012 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2007 - 15 22
I see Dana's already posted the widget showing our progress in the two challenges we've taken on this year, but since the three regions are somewhat different in size, I thought you'd also like to see the details of how many home-region authors are in each region, and their per-author average wordcount.
As you can see, while Bellingham has 31 more affiliates than Spokane, we actually have 8 more home-region authors. So we're slightly behind them in overall wordcount, but our per-author wordcount is woefully lacking.
Alaska has 25 more people writing than we do, so it's to be expected that they would be ahead of us in overall wordcount so far, but if we get busy, we should be able to catch up to their average per-author count.
I'm devoting my day to helping increase Spokane's standing. How 'bout the rest of you?
Samantha
50,103 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2007 - 16 53
Ouch! thanks Samantha for adding that info. I did my part today. Went and spent 3 hours at a one person write-in. =( But at least I got my wordcount done and in. Go Team Spokane! Don't forget to post, because while it is great you are writing, it only counts if you post it! See ya tomorrow, same bat time, same bat channel...er , um.. I mean...good luck everyone!!
----------~ grae
NaNoWriMo:
2007 - The Flash Pointe Cafe (win!)
2006 - An Advanced State of Shock (win!)
ScriptFrenzy:
2008 - in progress
50,008 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2007 - 01 29
YAY!!!! WIDGETS!!!!
----------INCOHERENT FEET 2007 (won)
MORONIC HANDS 2006 (won)
RUDE HAIR 2005 (won)
76,012 / 50,000
Nov 14, 2007 - 07 26
Oooh look, we've almost caught Bellinlgham. Just a little more and we'll be ahead!!
Samantha
50,039 / 50,000
Dec 3, 2007 - 00 55
Next year... Next year we'll beat the both of them! Because we now have such a cool name. :) or motto... whatever it's called. "The Inland Empire Strikes Back!".