Well, not necessarily wonderful, as I haven't tried any of them out yet... but i though I'd post a few links for Word Widgets as last year some people had difficulty finding them.
we'll start of with the basics: a NaNoWriMo widget page!
http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/widgets
It looks like this year they've let us customize the word widgets so we can change things like the total word goal.
I'll keep this page updated with others once more 2008 widgets are released.
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It's Danny P!
Two year veteran.
Two year winner.
Hoping my PC wll survive November...
58,408 / 50,000
Oct 9, 2008 - 10 03
Nice idea!
I like the widgets with the changing pictures! Or at least I think I will once I've seen one in action. They look fun.
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Used to be ShadowedWhispers (2003-2007)
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Used to be ShadowedWhispers (2003-2007)
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
50,227 / 50,000
Oct 29, 2008 - 17 38
HI there! Glad to know that you like the widgets that I made for Nano... :-)
Did you notice the "word war" widget? On behalf of the United States :: Missouri :: St. Louis region I would like to challenge you to use it. Head-to-head, wordcount-for-wordcount, to-the-death wordwar! Can I get an "amen"?
(Note: I'm not the
pheasant pluckerSt Louis Word-Wrangler*, I'm thepheasant plucker's sonWord-wrangler's husband ... and yeah, you get the picture!)* As a region we have an ML, but we also have a designated "word wrangler" whose job it is to rally the troops to ever greater wordcounts, start a few (friendly) word wars and generally keep score/refereee.
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Oct 30, 2008 - 01 57
Paul, on behalf of the Europe: England: Manchester regional forum, I accept your challenge ;)
We don't have an ML this year *sob* so a couple of us are sort of taking charge and sorting things out. I am in the process of creating a thread explaining how people take part in the word war and how they can display progress.
I'm assuming it's simple. Whichever region gets the highest word count overall by the end of November, wins. Am I right?
----------Used to be ShadowedWhispers (2003-2007)
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
50,227 / 50,000
Oct 30, 2008 - 04 34
My wordwar widget allows you to display some interesting statistics that facilitate wars between wildly disparate sized regions (it can be configured, for instance, to show the average output of the region's people) but the default setting is simply the grand total of all words written by anyone who has the regions set as "home" and that's what I was going for. Basically, our 2 cities have approximately the same number of people so it should be fair to compare straight-up wordcounts. As you said, whoever ends the month the the most words wins!
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