Currently the standings are:
Amarillo 160,692
Lubbock 220,702
Other interesting facts:
Lubbock is ahead of Savannah, GA
Lubbock is ahead of El Paso
Lubbock is ahead of Stillwater, OK (home of OSU)
Lubbock is ahead of the ENTIRE country of Hungary
Lubbock is ahead of the ENTIRE country of Puerto Rico
Lubbock is behind Santa Fe, but only by 20,000 words
Lubbock is behind College, Station by 5,000 words (come on, we can beat those dang Aggies)
Lubbock is still behind Quebec
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"Be the change you want to see in the world" - M. Gandhi
37,200 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 08 34
And again, pardon the misspelling of Lubbock.....another late night :-P
----------"Be the change you want to see in the world" - M. Gandhi
24,415 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 08 45
I'm a little behind my personal goals. I had a late night maintenace at work Wednesday night, so I was at work from 8 AM Wednesday morning until 3 AM Thursday morning. I went home and slept a few hours and was back at 8 AM yesterday morning and actually haven't left yet (as of 10:40 AM Friday morning). Got a lot of craziness going on at work right now so I'm having to burn a lot of time.
I expect I won't get much, if any, writing done tonight either as I'm going to go coma as soon as I can break away from here. Tomorrow, I'm helping a friend work an art booth at a comic convention being held here in Lubbock, so I don't know how much I'll get done tomorrow either.
Monday night will be another late night maintenance at work that could possibly stretch all night again.
I'll get caught up at some point though. I've been staying relatively close by writing a few sentences here and there during lulls in the action. Plus, after Monday, things should quiet down again until the first week of December.
20,001 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 08 55
Sounds like a real headache. You should plot in your head and write it on napkins or something. I have to do that during my classes or it feels like I'm wasting time. I'm sure you get caught up, and we'll keep the word counts going for you!
PS. I'm totally going to the Comic-Con this weekend! (excuse the really girly 'Totally' that just popped out) Don't have a costume, but I'm going to try and sport my "Buffy staked Edward" shirt to support good literature.
37,200 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 09 03
I thought about going and getting some pictures. It's nice there is not a Tech football game this weekend.
My family are big Texas Tech fans and when there's a football game it's like the whole day is wasted :-)
----------"Be the change you want to see in the world" - M. Gandhi
24,415 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 09 07
Well, I wish I knew what his booth was going to look like so I could say, "Anyone who happens to be there, stop by and say hello," but I haven't seen it yet. He isn't driving into town until late this evening so I won't even see him until tomorrow morning.
I can say that I will most likely be wearing a beat up grayish Lacross baseball cap and a white or black Nike shirt. I'll also probably either be sporting a moleskin or a laptop and trying feverishly to get some stuff written while there.
37,200 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 09 13
I love your fashion taste!
----------"Be the change you want to see in the world" - M. Gandhi
20,001 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 09 33
You should hang a sign saying "NaNoWriMo in progress. Feed me!" That way we can find you AND you get free food!
I love the shirt. It breaks everyone's hearts while I laugh maniacally.
15,046 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 11 38
Ooo, good stats! Me likes!
...And we WILL beat those dang Aggies!
I hear you on the writing time lost... All the time I feel like I "could be writing" and wish I could take out my laptop and hit it. There is a saying, isn't there? "Absence makes the heart grow fonder"? Yeah, well, every minute I'm away from my laptop & Nano novel, I want to write in it EVEN MORE! AAAGH!
Yeah.
I feel your pain in some form here. My sympathies.
Write on.
----------Write on!
8,025 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 20 15
Ahem. Your family? What am I then? :P
37,200 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 16 28
My apologizes......my sis is NOT a Texas Tech fan....but both my parents are so I get to go to every football and basketball game. It's good family time, but can be a bit much during this month.
:-)
----------"Be the change you want to see in the world" - M. Gandhi
15,046 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 18 58
Your sister is just rebelling. You have to watch out for those "cool" ones! XD
----------Write on!
37,200 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 13 55
Just a quick update on our word count stats
We are NOW beating:
1) Amarillo, TX
2) College Station (but only by 3,000 words)
3) Waco, TX (home of Baylor)
4) Moscow, Russia
We are less than 100,000 words from beating
1) Flagstaff, AZ
2) Santa Fe, NM
3) Omaha, NE
4) Monterey, CA
5) Syarcuse NY
I wonder if we can hit 1,000,000 words this year (a little more than 600,000 words needed)
What are you sitting here looking at stats for! When you're not writing, your characters get lonely (and might just get into trouble)
----------"Be the change you want to see in the world" - M. Gandhi
35,260 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2009 - 09 45
How many active Nano's are there in Lubbock? It only takes 20 of us hitting 50K.
Haylee, Michaela, and Stephenbook look like they'll smoke 50.
I'm hitting 50K even if it means ignoring my family over Thanksgiving weekend. They've already been warned. :)
37,200 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2009 - 09 47
Love the attitude! I'll be hitting 50,000 if it kills me (and it might with the way I'm feeling today) -P
----------"Be the change you want to see in the world" - M. Gandhi
20,001 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2009 - 10 27
My entire social life (and school life) has been sacrificed to the NaNoWriMo gods.
Definitely hitting 50,000.
24,415 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2009 - 11 08
I'll make 50k, but doubt I'll go much beyond that. I started really hating the story I'm writing this year right around word #500. I started hating all of my characters shortly after. I've thought about scrapping the whole thing and starting something new, but I'm so busy all around right now that it is all I can manage to keep plugging away.
I'll never be so happy to see a story behind me though than I will be this one.
35,260 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2009 - 15 05
You could make the first part of your book a bad dream (like season 9 of "Dallas" when it turned out that Bobby wasn't really dead).
I hated Chapter 3 of mine. It wreaked. And then I discovered that my main character is named "Mr. Rogers" when a secretary referred to him as "Mr. Rogers". I hated that and couldn't believe I picked Rogers as his last name. I wince every time I have a another character call him "Mr. Rogers." But I'll change that in December.
30,387 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2009 - 15 27
Where are you guys finding the wordcount for regions?
----------(My friend is writing in College Station and I am determined to have my region beat his region.)
"Life's a voyage that's homeward bound."
-Herman Melville
15,046 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2009 - 17 01
I'm convinced that this is Lubbock's year! Bring on those words! Spit 'em! Sling 'em! Sing 'em and push 'em! Go team go!!!
Oh and there is some link on Nano's home page that takes you to the Regions' word counts, participant count, & donation totals. Tis a scary page. Someone with serious skills coded that one! Uhhhh, Hagalaz will have to give you the directions to it. I'm trying to hit 14K words tonight. Whoo!
----------Write on!
35,260 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2009 - 19 59
Here's the link: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/wordcount_stats
(Main menu -> Fun Stuff -> Word Count Scoreboard)
Bad news ... Bryan/College Station pulled ahead by 2500 words. I guess I'd better get out of the forum and get back to writing.
Tracy
37,200 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2009 - 08 49
Those dang aggies. I'll try to get caught up on my word count now that I'm feeling better (wasn't sure if I was going to make it on Monday) :-P
----------"Be the change you want to see in the world" - M. Gandhi
35,260 / 50,000
Nov 12, 2009 - 07 40
I'm going to try this and see what happens. This is a "Region War" widget.
I included Wichita as a 1,000,000 word benchmark. The widget makes the city with the most words equal 100% of the progress bar. So since Hagalaz gave us a goal of 1 million words, I just picked a city that was close to that.
Bryan/College Station is ahead of us by 800 words at the time I put this up, but we are smoking them on average words per person (12,552 to 9,615).
35,260 / 50,000
Nov 12, 2009 - 07 41
Nice! It worked.
20,001 / 50,000
Nov 12, 2009 - 09 29
Well, I'm playing catch up today (almost 2000 words down and 2000 more to go) so I am pretty positive we'll get ahead.