Team Bitter, Bitter Irony this is your thread and your thread only. This is where you post your wordcounts, your inspirations, and other things to spur you on.
Other teams are welcome to read other team threads but if other teams are caught posting in another teams thread there will be a deduction of 1000 words on that persons total or the team average. Depends how we feel :)
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Mel / Calliopes.Sin
ML of Adelaide, Australia
"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die." - Isaac Asimov
41,184 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 01 53
Come on, bitter bitter ironers. How can we be languishing at the bottom of the post competition already? The other teams have at least one...
It appears I have failed in my attempts to poach competitors from other teams as well. Bitter, bitter irony.
How are the word counts going, by the way?
Denise
----------2006: Evil Ed's
2007: I Called Him Mine (WON!!!)
2008: When the World is Over (WON!!!)
2009: Evidence
11,269 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 02 10
Hai Team! ;)
errrr. write or I'll ... pinch you in the arm repeatedly?
33,211 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 03 07
As of right now 1691
as an interesting challenge to help spur my team mates on: pick a song from your playlist, play it, and write as many words as you can while it plays. Then post the track title, artist and track length along with your word count for the song here. I'll do some tomorrow when I'm not at work and actually have a playlist to choose from
----------NanoWriMo Efforts:
2006: Crossfire - 57,000 - Success!
2007: Untitled - 33452 - Epic Fail!
2008: Untitled - 50,727 - Success, sort of.
13,589 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 04 24
Hi guys. I'm currently on 2395 words and so far it's coming easier than I thought it would considering I didn't get round to much planning before starting. Hopefully that will continue. I'm relying rather heavily on the infamous plot bunnies - so far they haven't let me down and, thankfully, are co-operating with each other ie. not feeding me contradictory story lines.
How are you all going?
28,023 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 04 34
I hit 5k today, so I'm 10% done, hopefully I can keep this pace up!
41,184 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 05 23
2,361 so far, but hoping to get a few more in before bed.
----------2006: Evil Ed's
2007: I Called Him Mine (WON!!!)
2008: When the World is Over (WON!!!)
2009: Evidence
11,269 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 22 58
as an interesting challenge to help spur my team mates on: pick a song from your playlist, play it, and write as many words as you can while it plays. Then post the track title, artist and track length along with your word count for the song here. I'll do some tomorrow when I'm not at work and actually have a playlist to choose from
Blowers Daughter - Damien Rice - 4:48
Did 216 words with it! wewt!
0 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 03 44
I must confess I'm at zero words... its like my creativity has turned viscous in my head and refuses to be forced out.
*Starts stacking the kindling* In the words of someone I'm sure "I shall throw myself upon my own sword for my failings..." Or perhaps I'll just stack kindling for the fire for a few more days first...
41,184 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 06 25
Managed a paltry 262 words today. Grand total of 5,365.
But, in more positive news, I passed my roller derby skills test, the dentist says I don't need any more fillings and my awful sister left the country on a one-way ticket. Yay for today.
Chooky and I will be in Ballarat for the next week and probably won't be able to upload our totals. Rest assured, though, my fellow ironers, I will be typing like a non-blue badger. Not a lot else you can do in the evenings when you're staying with your parents and they don't have the internet.
Expect a huge jump in my word count on 9th November. That will make you all happy.
----------2006: Evil Ed's
2007: I Called Him Mine (WON!!!)
2008: When the World is Over (WON!!!)
2009: Evidence
10,019 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 06 29
Hey fellow ironers (sounds like an ad for a laundry product :D )
I've managed to hit the 4,000 word mark. But expect it to be downhill from here, at least until the weekend. Work calls :-(
But I'm pumped - it's *so far* coming easier than expected!
----------Althea Hayden
http://www.altheahayden.com/
Also on Textnovel with 'A Regency Adventure'
13,589 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 05 36
It's amazing how life twists and turns. I thought today was going to be a very crappy day. My work which I thought would be finished by about 11.00 still wasn't by 1pm - I've had to leave some of it over until tomorrow. And then some of my other plans for today got changed and I ended up being out and having no access to a computer for most of the day. Sounds like a recipe for disaster to a NaNOwriMer. After having been ahead of schedule the first 2 days, I thought my word count was about to go down the gurgler.
But the age of miracles is not yet over. By 11.50pm I had the wonderful experince of looking down at my word count to find that I had indeed reached and passed my target for today AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
38,048 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 02 32
Hello!
So I finally got in a team after hurriedly finishing off my major design so I could begin writing! Only up to 3000 so far, but have only spent a couple of hours on it, hoping to spur on once I finish my last essay for uni and have 24/7 to devote my time to NaNo and my fellow ironers!
My friend got into Omega Phoenix Rainbow...so we have to make sure we beat them!
41,184 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 03 22
Think I've made us a new arch-nemesis.
Whoopsie daisy.
Maybe we can be everyone's arch nemeses?
----------2006: Evil Ed's
2007: I Called Him Mine (WON!!!)
2008: When the World is Over (WON!!!)
2009: Evidence
8,250 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 04 32
Feh, only just hit 3,500... Come on, brain!
I know I should just be getting it out as fast as possible but I CAN'T STOP POLISHING. :)
Go team!!
----------"Our show may not be fancy but it's noisy and it's free." -- Ernie
~~ Go, Bitty, Bitty Irony - the BEST Adelaide team!! ~~
38,048 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 05 01
Of course we can be everyone's arch nemeses!
We are bitter, bitter after all ;-)
...do we need a mascot?
33,211 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 08 25
...do we need a mascot?
like what? a suicided person clutching a the winning lottery ticket for tomorrow nights draw?
sorry, had to be said, can't help myself.
----------NanoWriMo Efforts:
2006: Crossfire - 57,000 - Success!
2007: Untitled - 33452 - Epic Fail!
2008: Untitled - 50,727 - Success, sort of.
32,600 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 23 30
Hmmm....like this?
Oh waiiiit. I can't draw.
WC = 10.5k
38,048 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 14 49
Oh waiiiit. I can't draw.
WC = 10.5k
Haha brilliant. LOL Your writing skills are definitely better than your flash(?) skills. Still, great mascot haha
54,580 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 19 48
Bitter Bitter Irony: your team average for week 1 is 8700 words. You are currently 2nd in the competition.
----------Christina
Adelaide ML
"Take your clothes off, we've got some writing to do!"
38,048 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 23 32
What do we think of this for a poster/logo? Also, what do you guys think of a facebook group?
32,600 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 23 36
Yeah, it was Flash...
I don't have Facebook, so I am No for that...
The irony would be if we all reached 50k words and then found out NaNoWriMo is actually in December...
8,250 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 15 34
I like it.
I'm on facebook, but having a BBI facebook group would encourage me to go on to facebook more, and that would be bad!
----------I'm behind as it is. :( :)
"Our show may not be fancy but it's noisy and it's free." -- Ernie
~~ Go, Bitty, Bitty Irony - the BEST Adelaide team!! ~~
32,600 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 00 58
Just keep writing! Don't worry about your word count...JUST WRITE!
2,537 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 05 10
So ummm... I kinda missed the cut-off date for the teams because I was trying to avoid the fact that it was November =P
But now I'm writing and as one of my friend's is in this team, I'm kinda unofficially joining too. Shh... don't tell anyone.
I'm up to 2289 words. =)
0 / 50,000
Nov 15, 2009 - 03 07
Just saying nothing meaningful... since we were allllll the way at the bottom of the board.
41,184 / 50,000
Nov 15, 2009 - 04 31
No - don't tell me that we are languishing behind our arch-nemiseses?
Where did this information come from?
Write, ironers, write. Write like the weight of the Adelaide NaNoWriMo competition depends on it. Because it does!
----------2006: Evil Ed's
2007: I Called Him Mine (WON!!!)
2008: When the World is Over (WON!!!)
2009: Evidence
38,048 / 50,000
Nov 15, 2009 - 14 09
I am I am! Hoping to reach 30,000 in the next 2 days. I'll be writing my arse off at work :-P shhhh
33,211 / 50,000
Nov 15, 2009 - 21 14
Ummm, I could be part of the reason we're falling behind ... sorry, but I spent a week in hospital with no functioning laptop to continue writing.
----------NanoWriMo Efforts:
2006: Crossfire - 57,000 - Success!
2007: Untitled - 33452 - Epic Fail!
2008: Untitled - 50,727 - Success, sort of.
70,824 / 50,000
Nov 17, 2009 - 19 34
Bitter, Bitter Irony: Your team average for week 2 is 16,898 words. You are currently 2nd in the competition.
Sorry for the delay in posting these. No nets. >.<
----------Mel / Calliopes.Sin
ML of Adelaide, Australia
"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die." - Isaac Asimov
41,184 / 50,000
Nov 18, 2009 - 04 18
Who was propogating the rumour that we were languishing?
We're number two! We're number two!
----------2006: Evil Ed's
2007: I Called Him Mine (WON!!!)
2008: When the World is Over (WON!!!)
2009: Evidence