So, it's just gone midnight.
I have 33492 words, Wise one has 24530.
We're sprinting till midnight.
The next midnight. Obviously.
Anyone with us?
The room is not capacious. But according to Justin 'this is point at which it all starts to go downhill.'
So that's a good sign.
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Mutability is our tragedy, but it is also our hope -Boethius
30,000 / 50,000
Nov 29, 2007 - 18 18
Exactly half a litre of piss later ...
I have 25,385 words, and Al has 34,145.
60,477 / 50,000
Nov 29, 2007 - 18 25
You can do it! I have every faith in both of you.
Have some cheer leaders. Very American, but what the heck?
*\o/* *\o/* *\o/* *\o/* *\o/* *\o/* *\o/* *\o/* *\o/*
61,091 / 50,000
Nov 29, 2007 - 18 47
Every 18 words either of you writes adds 1 to our Word War total
So don't stop when you pass 50K (as I'm sure you will).
Keep going: every 18 words either of you writes adds 1 to our Word War score. I'm expecting it to jump up as a result of your last-minute efforts.
Chromo.
P.s. to any Brighton word warriors: if your novel isn't actually finished, don't slow down just because you've already passed 50K. We need your words - and you need to finish your novels! 50K is a brilliant mega-achievement, but don't let that stop you! LOL
42,344 / 50,000
Nov 29, 2007 - 19 40
I'm at 35211. Wise one's at a tricky 26221.
Progress is slow, torturous, and probably to loud for the housemate that has work tomorrow morning.
Sleep has been mentioned, and scorned. One of our doom mongers has gone to get snacks and beers for the non-participants.
Is there an opposite to a progress report?
Because this is one of them.
50,197 / 50,000
Nov 29, 2007 - 20 00
Keep at it chaps! You can do it.
Just think of Big trouble in Little China as your reward for winning.
My terribly structured schedule fell to bits tonight in a burst of "must cross the line" enthusiasm.
30,000 / 50,000
Nov 29, 2007 - 21 30
Al is on 36,615, and I'm now on 27,094.
Sleep (of some description) may come in the next hour or two.
50,026 / 50,000
Nov 29, 2007 - 22 38
We're all cheering you on at this end... Suddenly my measly 2,136 words to go seems very do able!
Go you!!!!
60,477 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 02 03
Still cheering. I'm getting hoarse, but I'll cheer while you do.
50,045 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 02 31
Go you guys!
*puts on pedants hat*
26 miles? You mean a marathon? That's 26.2miles accccccctually. The point 2 is very important. ;)
I have 1800 words to spit out today. I want to do it before I go home. But I'm totally in a can't be arsed mood as it's Friday - gah!!!
57,058 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 02 43
Top tip for the day: keep an empty bottle next to you - then you won't even have to get up to... you know...
30,000 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 05 42
We've been there.
I (over)slept, from about 6am til 11.30, and am planning to start again, properly-ish at 1pm...
42,344 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 05 46
*puts on pedants hat*
26 miles? You mean a marathon? That's 26.2miles accccccctually. The point 2 is very important. ;)
I like to think that we've been leisurely walking the first 0.2 miles over the rest of the month, then remembered what's supposed to be going on and are now sprinting to the finish.
Note to self, sleeping during a marathon, though appealing. Isn't a good idea. It just increases the sense of urgency, in the worst possible way.
I'm on 37549, Wise One's making himself breakfast.
Thanks for the encouragement (and the pedantry) kids. We'd fall apart (more) without you.
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Mutability is our tragedy, but it is also our hope -Boethius
50,197 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 06 06
Still cheering you on here.
Keep going, it's only a short climb to 40k and then it's a smooth downhill ride from there on in.
50,000 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 06 31
Go go go.
I've been sprinting myself these last four days, but nothing like this. Over 47k now, and still plenty of little bits left to do that I'm no longer worried about having to start a whole new chapter to get there. Though I still haven't figured out where I can work in the tasmanian devils...
50,026 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 06 38
Go Wise One! Go Alabaster!
Just written 600 words in a free lesson myself...
Still cheering loudly here!
50,074 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 10 26
You can do it peeps! You've got until midnight...
Go Team!
*\o/*
(one cheerleader who's a bit lost but is cheerleading anyway)
50,072 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 10 41
keep it up! i limped past 43,000 last night but oh god, it's like blood out of a stone. got to pull 6 and a bit htousand words out by tonight....
50,197 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 11 35
I'm hoping that our intrepid racers have simply not updated their word counts recently; as opposed to being passed out on the sofa, stuffed to the gills with take-out and coffee.
50,074 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 11 46
If all else fails, invent a spurious character with a 120-word name who insists on being called by his full name at all times. And make him suddenly crucial to the plot.
50,330 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 13 30
We're all watching you chaps - update, will you? Update!!!
42,344 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 13 34
So. I had a break for soup. I caught Wise One playing Tetris, we've now been moved to seperate corners of the house like naughty children. I don't know how Justin is doing (he needs someone to research aircraft navigation in the 1920s for him, he hasn't got the time) but I just cracked 40k.
It's not going well, but I'm still typing.
Barely.
On a positive note, the soup is taaaasty.
Mm
50,026 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 13 39
Woohoo! Keep going, we're all here cheering you on, you know... All screaming madly (in all senses of the word) at our pooter screens - well at least I am!
30,000 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 13 56
Grargh.
That is all.
42,615 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 14 28
Well, I've finally got rid of the removals men (and some 10 cubic metres of posessions, mostly books)
Go Al! Go Justin!
2 1/2 hours...you can do it!
50,330 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 14 31
Aircraft navigation in the 1920s was all about a compass, strip maps and actual landmarks (for Africa, turn left at the field with three trees in the corner).
There seems to be some overlap between our Nanonovels...
50,054 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 15 31
You are actually amazing.... I just managed to churn out 5k on my day off from work and felt exhausted with it after that, so I am pretty damn awed by your valiant struggles.
Keep going...
50,026 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 15 31
*wonders about changing in her cheer-leading outfit*
Or would that be the wrong type of encouragement?
Keep it up, lads (the writing that is...)!
30,000 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 15 43
Keep going...
To be entirely fair, my realistic aim is for 30,000, which is only five and a half thousand words. But, oddly, I seem to be falling in love with my plot all over again...
Hmm.
50,330 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 15 47
And how about Mikuro? Nearly there.....and still waiting for the title...
42,344 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 16 18
Despite my crack team (seriously, there's four people huddled around me. Though they aren't so much helping as being amused by my frantic desperation (and lack of actually writing).
It is nice though.
Justin has mostly fled, but I am still progressing. Dragging my knackered body toward the finish line, clawing at the gravel with my bloody finger stumps.
Glad to know we've got an audience of cheerleaders though.
Thanks y'all. Though I think the odds of finishing are narrowing every instant that passes.
This is ludicrous. I think i've just wasted ten minutes typing this.
That is how distractable I am right now.
Next year, I'm getting a sensory deprivation tank with a keyboard in it.
In the long run, it may not help the fluency of the writing, but as long as words don't have to be 'words' per se, then I reckon I'll be miles ahead.
Maybe.