Hello!
Vancouver has thrown down the gauntlet and challenged Hawaii to a Regional Word War, and Hawaii has picked it up. (It might have been the other way around, but there was definitely gauntlet throwing and picking up.) Thanks to the wonders of the Regional Info tab, we will be able to tell on December 1st which region wrote the most words, and which wrote the most per Wrimo with a word count. To that region will go a year's worth of bragging rights and endless amounts of taunting.
But why should the taunting be reserved for after the party's over? After all, what would a challenge be without some friendly ribbing and trash talking? Therefore, I declare this to be open season between Vancouver and Hawaii. Let the games begin!
This thread is posted in both Vancouver and Hawaii, so that you may join in the taunting from both sides without having to affiliate with the enemy.
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Name my novel!
50,284 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 23 47
Bring it, Vancouver! We're so going to win this little shin-dig! ~_^
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Joanna V.
United States::Hawaii co-ML
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30,335 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 23 49
we've already got a 50Ker on our side ^.^
57,508 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 00 20
I hate to break it to ya, but one winner does not a winning team make. You're going down, Hawaii!!
----------Name my novel!
50,024 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 09 06
You wish Chocolate Queen.
----------Name your novel, How to Lose Gracefully.
"Have your best day ever." Ron Hulnick
http//JBVadeboncoeur.info
13,491 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 11 35
Pfft... if Vancouver doesn't win, that's just sad. They have a whole extra hour of writing time on the first day (from 1am to 1am).
Prepare to be sad!
40,453 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 14 09
Hah! Our little municipality will definitely take on your ENTIRE state and win.:p
----------"We need more Vodka"
40,453 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 14 10
Hah! Our little municipality will definitely take on your ENTIRE state and win.:p
----------"We need more Vodka"
40,453 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 14 10
Hah! Our little municipality will definitely take on your ENTIRE state and win.:p
----------"We need more Vodka"
31,053 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 15 52
No one can withstand the awesomeness of the 'Couv. We shall win this thing.
And our gauntlet is prettier than yours.
----------Remembering the Flames
(NaNo2006--won)
Pledges
(NaNo2007--won)
Hyperspace Jump to the Left, Supernova to the Right
(NaNo2009--will be won)
...exuberant imperfection
36,570 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 20 47
No way, Hawaii! We have a plethora of novelists here in Vancouver, and we are typing like mad! We WILL win!
----------Dana
http://danabooks.8k.com
Nano 2009: After The Great Devastation
Nano 2008: The Red Cloak
Nano 2007: Nightmares of Murder
NaNo 2006: No One Like You
NaNo 2005: Existing
NaNo 2004: All These Things
NaNo 2003: Kissing a Dead Man
57,508 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 21 26
Name your novel, How to Lose Gracefully.
I'll do that... And then I'll send a copy to Hawaii on December 1. ----------
Name my novel!
50,024 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 21 52
I'll send you an autographed copy of my novel
----------How Itt Feels To Win NaNoWriMo and the Regional Competition!
"Have your best day ever." Ron Hulnick
http//JBVadeboncoeur.info
57,508 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 22 45
Writing fantasy this year I see.
----------Name my novel!
50,024 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 10 05
ChocolateQueen, I can see how you would think that from where you stand. It's actually non-fiction. Hope you get to experience it some other year maybe if you do battle against one uninhabited island.
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"Have your best day ever." Ron Hulnick
http//JBVadeboncoeur.info
35,950 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 22 51
Provided words I made up myself count, Hawaii is so going down! we shall drown them in neologisms! the Jaasha, Shaaja, and Aldre'mirrn will pile up so high you'll have to climb to the tops of the tourist hotels just to see the ocean. just wait.
----------"Make my soul a blade/ so even as I fade/ I will remain unbroken." -Warrior's prayer
To those with sufficient disregard for the consequences, anything is possible.
57,508 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 23 24
Haha, awesome Mo! And then there's me--I'm 1/4 "done" and I've barely written any dialogue yet. Just wait till my characters actually start talking, Hawaii. We'll see who's in the lead then.
----------Name my novel!
12,374 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 11 55
Well met, Hawaii!
I'm afraid to inform you but Washington has the obvious climatic upper hand.
That's right, we won't be tempted to lounge on white beaches, or participate in luaus, or dance the hula. No annoying red cheeked tourists will stop to ask us for directions.
You know why? Because the gentle repetitive patter of our liquid sunshine sends us into a trance like writing state.
One that says "stay inside, it's too cold out there to do anything other than write anyway".
0 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 15 40
OK- well - since I joined, my mom is MAKING me write - so guys - you have an adult female who is writing because she doesn't want to be grounded.
LMAO...
Vancouver will NOW win.
----------WagerWitch
http://witchview.blogspot.com for my personal side (just FYI I am a gambling affiliate for my WagerWitch Site - so under 18 go to WitchView, over 18 and liking the seedy side of life find... seek... enjoy - WagerWitch)
25,029 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 16 17
Oh boy competition! I live for crushing opposition!
See you from the finish line Hawaii!
Chellanore
32,075 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 18 04
I'm afraid to inform you but Washington has the obvious climatic upper hand.
That's right, we won't be tempted to lounge on white beaches, or participate in luaus, or dance the hula. No annoying red cheeked tourists will stop to ask us for directions.
You know why? Because the gentle repetitive patter of our liquid sunshine sends us into a trance like writing state.
One that says "stay inside, it's too cold out there to do anything other than write anyway".
Well said Kaiyah...
(also the first time I've heard this cruddy weather so glorified) (LOL)
And while we are STUCK inside writing (why didn't that sound fun?)
we can bring out our secret weapon:
the ever popular ... Stuttering Waitress!!!
"M m m m maaay I I I I I I ta ta ta ta ta taaake yo yo yo yo yo yooooour or or or or or orrrrder?"
----------Victory is crossing the starting line.
50,023 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 12 10
I'm cranking out the words right now! Ironically enough, my characters are currently vacationing on Maui.
Enoc
64,853 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 12 36
Enoc
then really.. your word count counts for HAWAII... :D
thanks!
50,024 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 20 34
good one Missraye.
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"Have your best day ever." Ron Hulnick
http//JBVadeboncoeur.info
50,284 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 20 54
*AHEM*
If I'm not mistaken, Hawai'i has just broken a million written words!!
Take that, Vancouver! ~_^
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Joanna V.
United States::Hawaii co-ML
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300 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 21 57
Vancouver is totally going ... *looks at word count*
Ah. Excuse me. *slowly slinks out*
50,303 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 23 25
Climate is on our side- at least our fingers won't be in danger of freezing off while we type. The coldest it ever gets here is on the morning bus.
Besides, we couldn't possibly lose to a city that stole its name from Canada!
----------You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the the red pill, you stay in NaNoland, and Sir November Lagamorph, the plot bunny, shows you how deep this plot-hole can go.
57,508 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 01 41
Besides, we couldn't possibly lose to a city that stole its name from Canada!
Oh, you have no idea what you just started. We did not steal our name from Canada! Fort Vancouver (the original settlement here) was established in 1824. Vancouver, BC was incorporated in 1886, over 40 years later. You can make any other derogatory comment regarding the two Vancouvers that you want, but you simply cannot say we stole their name. They stole ours!!!
I'm sorry Hawaii, but you've just given us one more reason to wipe the forums with you come December 1.
----------Name my novel!
57,508 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 21 45
Hmmm, I just happened to check the average word count per Wrimo, and guess who's taken the lead, Hawaii? Yep, that's right--we are now a full 1K ahead of you in the per person count.
Go Vancouver!!
----------Name my novel!
64,853 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 23 54
That's WRITE Hawaii.... go go go... of course we're going to beat Vancouver... that's already done and set in stone...
the important thing is that we just keep writing and writing and writing...
because in Hawaii... we're writing like a lava flow! creating new novels through miles and miles of word count!!!
50,024 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2009 - 00 25
". of course we're going to beat Vancouver... that's already done and set in stone... "
----------and lava turns to stone. XD
"Have your best day ever." Ron Hulnick
http//JBVadeboncoeur.info