For all your light-hearted banter, jokes, teasing, etc. You want to let another team know you're going to thwap their asses with your word count? Emphasise it's your team for the win?
Here's your chance.
One request - please observe the general rules of behaviour on the board. It's one thing to point out that Team X have the mightiest writing skills and point and laugh at Team Y's efforts, but it is another thing entirely to single someone out as being pathetic, a waste of space and a crappy loser. No matter whose team you're on, or what your word count, that will earn you a Mod smackdown, and make everyone else realise that yes you can write like Zeus possessed, but you are a horrible competitor. Persistent bad behaviour and failure to listen, will get you booted out. This is meant to be FUN.
And with that, as we begin the slippery slope down to midnight tonight - the very best of luck to all of you, and may you all reach 50,000 words. Whether your team wins the War or not, the most important battle of all is you versus the 50K. The Word War is just the ice cream sundae post-battle.
Good luck everyone!
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BFS goals - http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/1075131
50,246 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2007 - 11 39
OK, cool we can post here now the thread's unlocked! (misunderstanding between me and Cybele over which threads were to be stickied and which locked, seeing as how I currently can't do it myself).
And here's the leaderboard as taken as close to 11pm 3rd Nov as possible (given the site threw a wobbly and I was half asleep then anyway):
1st --- People-y fiction --- 11212.6 words
2nd --- Fanfic --- 8027.7 words
3rd --- Magical Realism --- 6655.75 words
4th --- Supernatural --- 4656.3 words
5th --- Memoir/Creative Non-Fiction --- 4504 words
6th --- Dystopia --- 4418.5 words
7th --- Post Apocalyptic --- 2748.3 words
358,001 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2007 - 14 38
C'mon, Fanficcers! We can kick those People-y people's tailfeathers!
50,246 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2007 - 15 09
Holy giant word score, Batman! [passout]
*checks spreadsheet from yesterday*
You wrote 10K today? That's awesome, teammate! [bighug]
Now to set some music going and get writing myself! I've just navigated a bit that was hard to write (crap writing which will need serious editing), and hopefully I can get myself going now with the next bit!
Go team Fanfic! *cheers*
50,246 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2007 - 18 51
OK, leader board for the 4th Nov!
1st --- People-y Fiction --- 13341.8
2nd --- Fanfic --- 10981
3rd --- Magical Realism --- 8189
4th --- Memoir/Creative NF --- 6937.5
5th --- Supernatural --- 5481.67
6th --- Dystopia --- 4418.5
7th --- Post Apocalyptic --- 2937.3
PLEASE NOTE!!!!
There will NOT BE a leader board posted tomorrow night - I am at a fireworks show and staying overnight with a work colleague, so will not be able to check scores nor create a board tomorrow night. (I actually fell asleep for 2 hours after the board tonight, and woke up - it's now nearly 2am, I've got to finish up online and go BACK to sleep [doh])
60,428 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2007 - 20 05
Hi Sammy. Can you remind me what the rules are for determining word count again? I remember reading earlier that it was going to be the average of the top two (or something), but I can't find that post again. Thanks.
358,001 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2007 - 23 12
I'm not Sammy, but this should help...
Click here to jump straight to the rules. It's not an average of the top two on each team, it's an average of the team as a whole! So everyone needs to do well on each team! :)
358,001 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2007 - 21 34
*checks spreadsheet from yesterday*
You wrote 10K today? That's awesome, teammate! [bighug]
Well, here's my scores that I've kept track of:
All times are Central US time -- and I wish to point out that Saturday night / Sunday Evening (night of the 3rd / 4th) I did have an extra hour as the time reset, and the nearly 15,000 between the first November 4th update and the third November 4th update included a 6 hour Write-In being attended where everyone there (20 attended) was encouraging me -- or should that be incorriging me?
Not a day I got a lot done. I had to edit my final paper for one of my classes and turn it in, hit two job interviews, attend training for my January employment, and write an intro for my next class...
Oh, and you don't have to worry about my production slowing down, teammates... my personal goal is 350,000
Edeyn Hannah Blackeney
Ever just look up at the night sky to watch the stars while thinking of something mundane? Yeah, me neither. Wasn't it Jim Henson who said, "Without faith, I am nothing," after all? Wait, no, that was God. Sorry, common mistake...
50,246 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2007 - 00 02
Mmm, I wrote the rules (based on word war rules between regions), when the teams were pretty much 2-4 people each. Some of the teams are now 5-6 people, but sign up has slowed down. You could always try and encourage a few more people to join your team, if it's small!
Averaging was just the easiest way to do it, because I knocked up a spreadsheet which has each person and their daily score (for 30 rows), and then each team and their average (for 30 rows - one per day, which adds up each team member's score and averages it).
Which means at 11pm my time, I can just run down the list of people, plug in everyone's scores, and voila, averagey-ness. Course I still have to work out who's top, etc., but yeah. On top of work, a total 4 hour daily commute, MLing, Mod-ing and writing a novel, I wasn't about to make things overly complicated when they didn't have to be :-)
50,246 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2007 - 17 08
OK, today's leader board!
But first, a little housekeeping. Two participants still have not posted a word count, after 6 days - the rules say you must update at least every 4 days, or you will be removed from the word war (unless you notify me beforehand, as one person did). And one person hadn' updated their score (but had written some words). I started typing up the leader board and realised that the two non-updaters should not be included (i.e. reduce their team's total players which I divide the total word count by). So I took them out:
REMOVED - ennui (Supernatural), blackberry_ink (Magical Realism), and HarpieSiren (Fanfic).
This didn't affect Magical Realism's position in 3rd place, although it brought them closer to Fanfic. But it did change Supernatural's position from 5th to 4th, and Fanfic jumped from 2nd to 1st! - so teams can change places, if you write enough!
Some people have had the same score (whether 0 or something like 20,000) for 4 days on my spreadsheet, but I'm aware that they might be in America, and not yet updated tonight (nearly midnight my time is 4pm California time). So if they still haven't updated tomorrow - bye bye to them too. I give slightly more than I should, time-wise, due to the timesones, but I said I take the scores at 11pm my time (England), and if I've had the same score on 5 days, that's enough to take into account timezones.
People at risk of being ditched are:
Talysia - Dystopia
jessi_rose - Dystopia (which would then remove Dystopia completely)
emmabrown - Pople-y Fiction
1st --- Fanfic --- 17157
2nd --- People-y Fiction --- 16493
3rd --- Magical Realism --- 13291.8
4th --- Supernatural --- 9497.75
5th --- Memoir/Creative Non-Fiction --- 9090.5
6th --- Post Apocalyptic --- 5534
7th --- Dystopia --- 4418.5
If anyone's curious, the current team lists look like this:
Magical Realism
Steve PD
GoneBlank
bethverde
buildbyflying
Kat Gentian
Fanfic
Sammy
saharial
HarpieSiren?
delayra
WitchyRobyn
elgie
Tsuki-chan
People-y Fiction
ReggieLithium
hanshotfirst
Essence_of_Insanity
smthngnbtwn
emmabrown?
Dystopia
Talysia?
jessi_rose?
Supernatural
etvulpesvelox
Aimajo
AmyPReed
IdahoCher
Post Apocalyptic
WinterOne
GreedySkunk
orla_h
Memoir/Creative Non-Fiction
Durga
soleta_nf
80,588 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2007 - 19 45
I suppose it's a good thing that I want to get to at least 20K by the time I call it quits tonight.
75,004 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2007 - 21 15
Oh we were doing so well People-y peoples! Thankfully watching Wildboyz solved a problem I had been having plot-wise (oddly enough) and I'm able to get back to busting these out.
50,117 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2007 - 22 02
I have to ask because I'm also writing fanfic and am a fanfic addict - what fandom(s) is/are you writing this month?
50,246 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 00 42
Alias :D
Same as last year! You?
Go team fanfic! We're just plain better :P
50,117 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 08 38
I'm doing Naruto. I'd sort of planned on writing a post-KH2 fic about Sora, RIku, and Kairi getting back into the swing of things at home because they aren't enough good ones, until this bunny attacked me during the summer and would not let go. XD
358,001 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 11 37
DC Comics... sort of... I'm setting mine in the far-flung future, and the DC Universe is part of history (set in the 52nd Century).
50,117 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 11 59
That's so cool. Like, super awesome. :D
51,635 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 14 40
We also have someone in danger of being kicked off. That's probably bringing the peoply-fiction average down.
(Also, completely off topic but are you essense from quizila?)
50,246 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 15 41
(Also, completely off topic but are you essense from quizila?)
Me? No - used Quizilla a handful of times to do quizzes set by other people, but never more than that.
Will check who needs removing in about half an hour when I do today's scoring. I just thought I'd post the potential removals in case they saw it, or people wanted to PM them and poke them into updating (but a friendly poke, obviously).
Can't say I didn't warn them then, between the rules thread and the warning here!
80,588 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 16 07
fic is also facing a one person loss, but one of the members has a very ambitious goal that's boosting their average. One large number in a group can skew the average score
No, I am not essence from quizila.
75,004 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 17 12
The person we were in danger of losing has about 21,000 now after updating from 20,000, so she's not really bringing us down much. But no worries, I'm also friends with her and know she's a freakishly fast writer, and Thursday she plans on overtaking me at least!
50,246 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 17 30
Sorry this is a bit later than I'd planned - lay down in bed to be warm, and dozed off for an hour - well it was 11pm, what did I expect? [doh]
OK - first up, removals.
REMOVED - Talysia and jessi_rose. Which removes the DYSTOPIA team altogether.
So, the leaderboard!
1st --- Fanfic --- 18,786
2nd --- People-y Fiction --- 18,553.4
3rd --- Magical Realism --- 14,504.8
4th --- Supernatural --- 11,048.5
5th --- Memoir/Creative Non-Fiction --- 9,711.5
6th --- Post Apocalypic --- 6,577.6
There you go - Fanfic still have the lead, albeit only just! I'm a little behind on my wordcount, so c'mon team fanfic!
358,001 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2007 - 06 24
I'm doing the best I can! I'm attending school fulltime, training for work, and jobhunting for a better job on top of writing for NaNo!
60,428 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 19 38
delayra - I have NO idea how you can do all that *AND* write 80k in one week. O.O
50,117 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 19 43
I say she has awesome mad skillz, that's what I say. :D
80,588 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 21 01
I want to see what my Newsreporting Professor thinks when I ask if I can do an article on how to write a 50K novel in a month, and then run it by him that I'm doing it, despite how badly my hands are already bleeding between Newsreporting and Latin.
80,588 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 21 00
*accidental double post*
50,005 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 22 36
Damn, people-y is so close. I wish I could get to 80k, according to my pace, I might end between 70-60k. I have to say this competition is a big contributor to my writing just because I love being competitive! I also have my gf's approval to write as much as I want since I let her in on the Essance of NaNoWriMo
358,001 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2007 - 00 24
Well, the good news for those that wish to make the failed attempt to catch me, is that tomorrow (the 8th, in the US) will be a slow writing day for me -- NaNo-wise. I was informed this evening that I received the wrong syllabus, and I have 4 (that's right, more than 3) 1500 word essays due TOMORROW, not Monday as I thought. I also have 98 pages of reading to get through and though I read fast (HP7 in 4:32), it will take about half an hour at least. Plus, job training test tomorrow -- and I'll be there for 4 hours. My friends complaining of my lack of being around so I must go to dinner (say, 2-3 hours) with them. I'm a gamer and my biweekly game night is tomorrow (5½ hours). So. 13 hours taken up, it's already 1:30, so there's another hour and a half... 2½ for sleep. 3 more hours for work, and say an hour for showering, breakfast and lunch all together. I have 3 hours to write. Bah.
53,699 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2007 - 01 28
Sorry, supernaturalists...my net has been effectively down for a few days, so my last night's word count SHOULD have been slightly more than it was (real!score= 14533). Please work, internet....
54,157 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2007 - 09 10
It's all good etvulpesvelox. I'm just happy that we're keeping a steady pace. Let's keep up the work. I'm not sure if I will get any writing done today because I'm kind in a rough patch. I think I need to do some research and brainstorming.
AJ