Word counts for region

I posted this a couple of hours ago - but it didn't show up - seems I'm being prevented from posting comments or something to that effect.

As of 10:30 a.m. this morning here are the word counts I can get:

GREENVILLE:
Nov 1 ---------- 3104
Nov 2 --------- 29044
Nov 3 -------- 76545

CHARLESTON:
Nov 1 --------- 9043
Nov 2 -------- 46953
Nov 3 ------- 105379

I'm not sure I'll be able to update the numbers like I planned because the widgets are funky and not showing up like they should or if they show up, they are skewed. I'm finding it amazing that some regions are reporting millions of words already and we are only 2-1/2 days into the writing and the front page is showing over 6 million words - thats a lot of writing for about 90,000 folks participating and not everyone is participating wholeheartedly or even posting their word counts every day so I find the numbers to be swaying too high for this early in the postings. But I will be glad to post what I can number wise on a daily basis - keep up the good work ya'll - E :)

Elysabeth Eldering
author of THE TULIP KISS and BUTTERFLY HALVES
BRIDE-AND-SEEK, a short story selected to appear in The Petigru Review (available now on amazon.com)
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/
www.emesemporium.net

Since they have disabled the word count widgets right now - I can't give updates but as soon as they get that fixed, i will resume my updates.

I'm still amazed that the front page is showing over 98 million words so far - I know I'm not misreading the numbers. I keep thinking maybe I am looking at the numbers wrong but no, I've done the reading correctly. I'd like to know how we are well over 98 million words so far and only 4 days into writing (3-1/2 in our area - lol). Oh well - I will resume posting counts when they fix the word count thingies. - E :)

Elysabeth Eldering
author of THE TULIP KISS and BUTTERFLY HALVES
BRIDE-AND-SEEK, a short story selected to appear in The Petigru Review (available now on amazon.com)
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/
www.emesemporium.net

I still can't see the charts completely - so not sure what is up with that but as soon as I can and can do other regions - I'll do some word count catchups here - keep on writing everyone - we are over 129,000 words so far - E :)

Elysabeth Eldering
author of THE TULIP KISS and BUTTERFLY HALVES
BRIDE-AND-SEEK, a short story selected to appear in The Petigru Review (available now on amazon.com)
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/
www.emesemporium.net

Okay - even though we have more folks affliated with our region - looks like Charleston is kicking some royal butt - now we need to get our word counts going and the other 160 of you need to report in and show us what you are doing.

GREENVILLE:
Nov 3 ----- 79750
Nov 4 ----- 79750 (this was due to the disabled charts while the bug got fixed)
Nov 5 ----- 128278
Nov 6 (as of 6:30 pm) --- 169675

CHARLESTON:
Nov 3 ---- 105539
Nov 4 ---- 105539 (see note above)
Nov 5 ---- 200032
Nov 6 (as of 6:30 pm) ----- 241231

Hummm only 70,000 words ahead, give or take - but even still - I'm still wobbly from the front page word count - showing over 170 million words - holy cow we have a ton of prolific people participating. I still think the numbers are way off but that is just my personal opinion. The only way I can compare us to Charleston now is to make Charleston my home region briefly and get the chart on my page and then change it back to Greenville and get that chart on my page. It's slowing down again - so may not be too many postings until there are other ways to compare other regions - last year's was so nice - I liked that book page and opening it up and seeing the regions and all there and then being able to flip through different things to get word counts. I definitely don't like not being able to do that this year. I will try to keep the word count postings going but as long as the forums and everything is slow may not be every day -

I know we can do this - so write on ya'll - let's get them in Charleston and show 'em how we do it in the upstate - E :)

Elysabeth Eldering
author of THE TULIP KISS and BUTTERFLY HALVES
BRIDE-AND-SEEK, a short story selected to appear in The Petigru Review (available now on amazon.com)
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/
www.emesemporium.net

Well a little bit of a catch up according to the word counts.

I checked out Columbia's as well since they seem to be doing a lot of posting and I wanted to see where they were standing.

Without further adieu from the most recent lookup on the charts ---

GREENVILLE:
202781 (is actually showing up as today's count so I'm thinking this was the total definitely at midnight last night and the counts are actually a day behind on the date I look them up - correct me if I'm wrong someone - E :))

CHARLESTON:
269823 (They only jumped about 28,000 words over night and we jumped about 30,000 words - so that's a good thing - whenever we can do 10,000 more words in a day than they do means we can catch them or pass them with steady perseverence).

COLUMBIA:
Nov 1 ----- 1266 (very slow starters)
Nov 2 ----- 22388
Nov 3 ----- 66469
Nov 4 ----- 66469 (this was again due to the charts being disabled and fixed)
Nov 5 ---- 116654
Nov 6 ---- 156230
Nov 7 ----- 186745 (as ya'll can see - Columbia is last right now -

maybe I'll add the elsewhere counts tomorrow - just to give you all an idea of how the rest of the state is faring --- - I'm still not liking how I have to lookup other regions and wish there were an easier way to do it but for now I'll just have to keep doing it the way I am - maybe by the end of the month they will have an overall chart that will show every region, every state, et cetera - so it will be easier to do lookups. The fact that we can't do a search or get an overall sense of the word counts (except for the number posted on the front page which is still knocking me over here - since that number is so much higher than I would expect only one week into the writing process --- right now it's at over 217 million words - whew - I don't think we've ever had numbers like this in previous years so early on - maybe towards the end but not the very beginning. I'm still believing the word count things are not correct but what do I know? Nothing - so I'll just report like I've been doing and go from there - E :)

Elysabeth Eldering
author of THE TULIP KISS and BUTTERFLY HALVES
BRIDE-AND-SEEK, a short story selected to appear in The Petigru Review (available now on amazon.com)
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/
www.emesemporium.net

What we really need is Elysabeth to start putting up some crooked numbers in her word count. :)

A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
Insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not fergit
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to.
--It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), Bob Dylan

LOL - very funny - I will post some numbers this weekend when I have something to post. The stories are slowly coming along. I did type up what I had handwritten the other night and it came to 272 words - but my words are insignificant compared to everyone elses. So you guys keep writing on and I'll be the cheerleader - (seriously this weekend I will have numbers to post if it kills me - E :)

Elysabeth Eldering
author of THE TULIP KISS and BUTTERFLY HALVES
BRIDE-AND-SEEK, a short story selected to appear in The Petigru Review (available now on amazon.com)
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/

Elysabeth Eldering
author of THE TULIP KISS and BUTTERFLY HALVES
BRIDE-AND-SEEK, a short story selected to appear in The Petigru Review (available now on amazon.com)
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/
www.emesemporium.net

Here the numbers:

Overall - we have over 258 million words being counted

Greenville has 242728 (about a 40,000 word increase --- my few words this weekend might help but I doubt it )
Columbia has 212150 (about a 35,000 word increase --- wow they did some serious writing)
Charleston has 302731 (about a 32,000 word increase)

E :)

Elysabeth Eldering
author of THE TULIP KISS and BUTTERFLY HALVES
BRIDE-AND-SEEK, a short story selected to appear in The Petigru Review (available now on amazon.com)
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/
www.emesemporium.net

"my few words this weekend might help but I doubt it "

I am a tiny speck of blue in an ocean of red, but I still vote. It all helps.

Tony

A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
Insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not fergit
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to.
--It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), Bob Dylan

It looks like Charleston slowed down a bit - only having about 20,000 words yesterday. I think even though this widget thing is going to update, I'll still post the numbers so that the daily counts will be reflected and that way we know what the difference is on a daily basis.

GREENVILLE: 267284 (about a 25,000 word increase)
CHARLESTON: 322834 (about a 20,000 word increase)
COLUMBIA: 242530 (abouta 30,000 word increase)
ELSEWHERE: 291726 (racing season is over or close to being over and them Florenites (as they call themselves) have nothing else to do - lol - but Elsewhere includes places like Aiken, and anything not covered by the three major sections - so they do cover a lot of folks but if Charleston doesn't watch out, they will be passing them in no time.)

This should work out - I can just see what the widget says every day and post a simple email like this - E :)

Elysabeth Eldering
author of THE TULIP KISS and BUTTERFLY HALVES
BRIDE-AND-SEEK, a short story selected to appear in The Petigru Review (available now on amazon.com)
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/
www.emesemporium.net

Well according to the widget - we have all topped the 300000 word mark - way to go all of you.

GREENVILLE: 300789 (about 33,000 increase)
CHARLESTON: 381948 (almost a 60,000 word increase - whoa did they put us to shame - guess they were making up for ealier this week when they did less than everyone else wordwise)
COLUMBIA: 321286 (about a 58,000 words - wow - columbia is trying to play catch up with Charleston)
ELSEWHERE: 300845 (about 30,000 )

so we need to get some words in - hope the write-in went well and that the numbers start climbing again. I'm scrapping my state stories for now - I'll write something - just don't know what yet - E :)

Elysabeth Eldering
author of THE TULIP KISS and BUTTERFLY HALVES
BRIDE-AND-SEEK, a short story selected to appear in The Petigru Review (available now on amazon.com)
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/
www.emesemporium.net

I just unsubbed from the region so my overall (lack of a) word count wouldn't affect the Greenville Group, but I think I also unsubbed from the emails. Catie Jo, are you still affiliated with the Greenville group, and if not, how do you get the posts?

Kimberli

*sighs* Never mind, I figured it out. One can sub to any region, but they set their home region on a separate page.

In the last week, I've had to put my precious 14 year old dog to sleep, move from SC to NC, and while trying to settle in, drop everything and fly to Dallas for dinner in Fort Worth, and then returned the following day and restarted the settling process while searching for a house. I reserve the right to be stupid.

Oh hey, my username fits....

Kimberli

Kimberli,

I'm sorry to hear things are so crazy right now. Maybe you can get through all the drama and still hit 10k by the end of the month. For me, getting up to 10k was like pulling teeth, but after that writing came much more easily.

I hope metaphorical stormy weather gets a little less cloudy in the near future.

"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. "

Well, I've got my word count set to MS but I may change it back...

I'm sorry to hear about your doggy! Ours had a seizure the morning of our move! She seemed to recover, but she was old and blind. So we put her to sleep. It was very sad! On top of being sad moving...
Let me introduce you to a new term - "fly by the seat of your pants moving"
My dad interviewed for a job at the end of May and we moved about 2 months later. They bought a house that they had seen once, and been in for maybe 10-15 minutes. It was the most bizarre move we have ever made. Honestly, it might be one of the better ones... hmm.... :o)

Caitie Jo

2007 - The Smallest Downfall of All - The one thing that made us so great will be the one thing that destroys us

...it's a love story; it always is...

I didn't realize I had over 3k, so 10 may be doable. I'll just dump some of that rain on my character's lives. What good is upheaval if one can't use it in one's work? :o)

I've kind of fallen down on my cheering and all - I've been concentrating on other things. But looking at the widget above - wowsers you guys are awesome. Keep up the great work team.

My editing of my YA is going slowly but it hopefully will have a home - and maybe one of my short stories will get placed too - lol

So the numbers as of tonight 11:30 pm are

GREENVILLE: 514453
CHARLESTON: 527558
COLUMBIA: 403867
ELSEWHERE: 455379

we are only like 7000 below Charleston - way to rock the state guys - E :)

Elysabeth Eldering
author of THE TULIP KISS and BUTTERFLY HALVES
BRIDE-AND-SEEK, a short story selected to appear in The Petigru Review (available now on amazon.com)
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/
www.emesemporium.net

Greenville rocks -

I know Columbia group had a lock-in last night - and they did about 48,000 words between the 7 that participated - but looking at the widget above today - Greenville has finally pulled ahead of Charleston.

Guess my zombies scared them away.

As of this time - here are the numbers:

GREENVILLE: 608579
CHARLESTON: 581616
COLUMBIA: 490805
ELSEWHERE: 487304

Wonder if we can keep the momentum up and stay ahead of Charleston the rest of the month.

You guys really do rock and Tony, your challenges must be doing some good. Because those numbers keep on climbing. Way to go guys - E :)

Elysabeth Eldering
author of THE TULIP KISS and BUTTERFLY HALVES
BRIDE-AND-SEEK, a short story selected to appear in The Petigru Review (available now on amazon.com)
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/
www.emesemporium.net

I can top that one Caitie Jo --- I interviewed for a job the last part of May, before the memorial day holiday, was informed of getting the job within a week, and explored the area the following weekend, came up the middle of June (took two days off to get a place, get electricity and get a day care for the kids) - and came up on the 17th of June, leaving my previous residence at like 5 in the morning to be at the house to unpack my measly belongings (a mattress, a lamp and an alarm clock and some clothing) so I could be at work by 8ish so as not to be late. After leaving work that day, came back to the house, changed clothing and headed back to the Columbia/Saluda area to go see my son at Boy Scout Camp for family night - met my husband and other kids there. Left there and got lost coming back up to the area because I was not familiar with the roads and finally made it back to my then house. Stayed there two nights by myself and then headed back to Columbia to get a U-haul and pack up and move the kids up on the weekend - needless to say this was the second move I did like that. This one occurred about 9-1/2 years ago (that's how long I've been in the HP area now).

The first one occurred about 20 years ago - I was living in Laurens at the time, working for the health department as a temporary in a temporary position that finally got made permanent and I got bumped out of a job. I interviewed for a position in Charlotte like again in May and was hired on the spot basically - and I moved my son and myself in a weekend - came up the first Friday, got an apartment, electricity and found a daycare and then moved the following weekend (my interview was on like a Tuesday or Wednesday - and I had to give at least a week's notice to my employer). I moved to an apartment and a strange town in a few hours - bringing what I needed to survive for a while - and only like $100 in my pocket to last me for a month -

so I'm used to bizarre moves - lol - E :)

Elysabeth Eldering
author of THE TULIP KISS and BUTTERFLY HALVES
BRIDE-AND-SEEK, a short story selected to appear in The Petigru Review (available now on amazon.com)
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/
www.emesemporium.net

Elysabeth Eldering
author of THE TULIP KISS and BUTTERFLY HALVES
BRIDE-AND-SEEK, a short story selected to appear in The Petigru Review (available now on amazon.com)
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/
www.emesemporium.net

Ooops - meant to post the word counts for the regions while i was on this forum ---

Let's see - we fell a bit but not too much that we can't catch up and pass Charleston again. Although the rest of the state (Columbia and Elsewhere) has fallen way behind -

So without further ado - here are the word counts

GREENVILLE: 637177
CHARLESTON: 644484
COLUMBIA: 527756
ELSEWHERE: 521971

We are very close to Charleston but the other two have just kind of dropped off - oh well - but we can still catch up and pass Charleston - it's going to be a close month between the two regions - E :)

Elysabeth Eldering
author of THE TULIP KISS and BUTTERFLY HALVES
BRIDE-AND-SEEK, a short story selected to appear in The Petigru Review (available now on amazon.com)
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/
www.emesemporium.net

I frequent the boards at FanLib, a fan works archive site, and I'm the unofficial NaNo cheerleader there. Yesterday, I found out that one of the WriMos who is on those boards is from Columbia! Not only that, but she's writing the same kind of fanfiction I am! I was gobsmacked!

NaNo sure introduces you to a very weird, small world!

Save the Earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!

boy am I being slack - I hadn't posted in a couple of days and was thinking I should do that and wowsers - look at where we are - almost 3/4 of the way to 1 million words (1,000,000) - you guys are rocking the NaNo world for us being one of the smaller places in South Carolina because elsewhere includes the beach and the west side of the state down towards Aiken and no places that are covered by Greenville, Columbia and Charleston (which all three areas kind of incorporate a few other areas in them - like Greenville kind of covers Anderson (that's me), Greenwood, Spartanburg and Greenville areas, Columbia tends to cover the Cayce, Lexington, West Columbia, and other outer areas to the region and Charleston may cover places like Mt. Pleasant and Isle of Palms and those other places down there)

So rock on Greenville Nanites - you are doing a great job - E :)

GREENVILLE: 708773 (we are still behind Charleston but I think we can catch them - ya'll are doing an awesome job - keep it up - E :)
CHARLESTON: 725257
COLUMBIA: 580196
ELSEWHERE: 531792 (from my last posting on numbers this one only climbed a small amount)

Elysabeth Eldering
author of THE TULIP KISS and BUTTERFLY HALVES
BRIDE-AND-SEEK, a short story selected to appear in The Petigru Review (available now on amazon.com)
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/
www.emesemporium.net

So looks like Elsewhere in South Carolina had a power boost word wise. And we are still behind Charleston but still can catch them again and pass. It will be a close one between us and Charleston the rest of the month - 8-1/2 more days in the month and here is where we stand - E :)

GREENVILLE: 734347 (almost reversed numbers - lol but we gained almost 30,000 words overnight - about 26,000 which is good)

CHARLESTON: 751566 (the posted about 26,000 words as well - so we stayed even as far as how much was posted but they are still ahead - but only by about 17,000 words - so we can definitely add to that and surpass them I'm sure with the long weekend that everyone will be either playing catch up or will be slacking off due to traveling and all the festivities of the time of year - but I say let's keep on rocking them and trying to outdo Charleston)

COLUMBIA: 596631 (only gained about 16,000 words overnight).

ELSEWHERE: 570354 (guess they didn't want to be left in the dust too much - there were about 40,000 words posted for this region which like I said covers places that aren't covered by the three main areas and that's a lot of area to cover for the state - but alas, they are still last)

So keep on rocking and posting your word counts - see you all in the postings and hopefully at the write-in Saturday - E :)

Elysabeth Eldering
author of THE TULIP KISS and BUTTERFLY HALVES
BRIDE-AND-SEEK, a short story selected to appear in The Petigru Review (available now on amazon.com)
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/
www.emesemporium.net

HAPPY TURKEY DAY AND here is the latest word count. although Charleston is out - we still can catch them - especially with the challenge that Tony has out there. Good luck to all of you this weekend and hope you have a blessed and thankfully filled day - E :)

GREENVILLE: 763424 (just over a 29,000 word gain)
CHARLESTON: 7770888 (about a 26,000 word gain and just over 13,000 ahead of us)
COLUMBIA: 608806 (about a 12,000 word gain for them0
ELSEWHERE: 582976 (again about a 12,000 word gain this group)

Not that Columbia and Elsewhere have any chance of gaining on us or Charleston but it is nice to see where they are and kind of feel sorry for them but also have that "nyah, nyah, nyah" feeling towards them - like look what we can do and you aren't - lol - sorry that was mean - but we are close to taking over Charleston - hope we do - E ;)

Elysabeth Eldering
author of THE TULIP KISS and BUTTERFLY HALVES
BRIDE-AND-SEEK, a short story selected to appear in The Petigru Review (available now on amazon.com)
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/
www.emesemporium.net

Well looks like we ate too much turkey yesterday - lol - our group fell a bit further in the trenches

GREENVILLE: 778985 (about 15,000 word gain)
CHARLESTON: 809634 (roughly a 32,000 word gain - and that puts them about 31,000 ahead of us now)
COLUMBIA: 614386 (only abouta 6000 word gain - poor Columbia they really fell off the band wagon here)
ELSEWHERE: 592062 (about a 10,000 word gain)

I will try to add some words this weekend but not sure - since I really don't feel I have it in me - but the rest of you are doing an awesome job - keep up the great work - E :)

Elysabeth Eldering
author of THE TULIP KISS and BUTTERFLY HALVES
BRIDE-AND-SEEK, a short story selected to appear in The Petigru Review (available now on amazon.com)
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/
www.emesemporium.net

A comment from the NaNo thread at FanLib. Timeguardian is a WriMo from Columbia.

Save the Earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!

Here we go again - hope you all are having a mad crazy writing weekend. I did write last night and the story I started last weekend I've found a contest to submit to but there are some questions I have for them before I submit. i think I've answered my friends' questions now with the added stuff - I had to write around what I'd already written and it worked perfectly for the contest premise - so I think it is finished or at least I hope it is finished - anyway - I'll let you all know.

Here are the numbers for this morning.

GREENVILLE: 808667 (up roughly 30,000 - you guys really are rocking the upstate with the words - so keep it up)
CHARLESTON: 826562 (up only about 17,000 words - you guys almost doubled what they posted so that puts us back in the fight at only 20,000 behind - looks like the two areas will be hitting 1 million plus words by the end of day next friday - remember to post your words before midnight so that we all get credit for them )

COLUMBIA: 628709 (about a 14,000 word increase)
ELSEWHERE: 592062 (about a 6000 word increase - which amazes me still that this area covers so much more than the three main areas and yet they are so far behind - wonder what's up with them)

keep on rocking and doesn't look like I'll make it to the write-in today but I will be at the party next weekend - see you all there - E :)

Elysabeth Eldering
author of THE TULIP KISS and BUTTERFLY HALVES
BRIDE-AND-SEEK, a short story selected to appear in The Petigru Review (available now on amazon.com)
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/
www.emesemporium.net

all I can say is the write in did you all good yesterday - you are really moving up the ladder here - way to go all you Greenville Nanoers or Nanites or whatever the proper term is - you all rock. As you will see from the numbers we hve passed Charleston finally - let's hope we can stay way ahead of them the rest of the week and whoop up on them at the end - E :)

GREENVILLE: 872690 (about a 64,000 word gain in a day - you guys rock - about 22,000 ahead of Charleston)
CHARLESTON: 849387 (about a 25,000 word gain in a day)
COLUMBIA: 645277 (about a 17,000 word gain)
ELSEWHERE: 632152 (about a 26,000 word gain - seems they are still alive in the rest of the state - lol)

So let's kick some butt - go Greenvillers - you all rock - E :)

Elysabeth Eldering
author of THE TULIP KISS and BUTTERFLY HALVES
BRIDE-AND-SEEK, a short story selected to appear in The Petigru Review (available now on amazon.com)
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/
www.emesemporium.net

Holy cow - the whole state went writing crazy this weekend and yesterday especially and with us having several people hitting the 50,000 mark yesterday that really helped but I have to say - you guys have really made a super combat - from Charleston being ahead to us being ahead and then getting close and staying behind for a while - we are still ahead even with their impressive numbers yesterday -

GREENVILLE: 901125 (about 29,000 posted - which is very cool) - still ahead of Charleston
CHARLESTON: 891802 (about 42,000 posted from the previous day but we are still about 10,000 ahead of them - not much but we are ahead - hope we can stay that way the rest of the week )

COLUMBIA: 734445 (would you look at this - 89,000 words posted - and that is power writing and posting - lol - guess folks realized it was coming down to the wire and they needed to stand up and be counted for their region -

ELSEWHERE: 661133 (about 29,000 posted - but still on the bottom rung - and here's the funny thing - I just got a message that their TGIO party is being held in Charlotte - definitely doesn't taken in to account folks from Aiken or Florence or Myrtle Beach or Augusta (okay North Augusta which is really in South Carolina) or anywhere between the Georgia Border and the North Carolina border that isn't covered by the three main groups - I think the state needs to have an Elsewhere 1 and 2 group- like covering from the other areas that aren't close to Charlotte - I think whoever set the party up is being presumptious that the rest of the elsewhere folks will just be able to show up to a party on whim, not taking into account that Elsewhere covers a lot of area in the state (and from Aiken or N. Augusta or anywhere else on that side of the state not included in the Columbia area group or the Charleston area group - those trips are like a 4 hour (at least) trip and those folks can't make it to the party - so I say they organize local parties for each area - to make sure they get in on the fun - lol - they've participated too and they should celebrate - okay that's my rant for today -

See you all in the postings - good luck to all of the Greenvillers - E :)

Elysabeth Eldering
author of THE TULIP KISS and BUTTERFLY HALVES
BRIDE-AND-SEEK, a short story selected to appear in The Petigru Review (available now on amazon.com)
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/
www.emesemporium.net

Wahhhhh - - everyone but Elsewhere areas had marathon writings and postings of words - and Charleston took over us - but dang the three main groups posted over 200000 words just since my update yesterday - we are still in the running and have the ability to overtake Charleston - so come on guys - get to writing and posting your word counts. Tomorrow we will be over the 1 million mark and by Friday night we should be pretty close to 1 mil 500 thousand mark (wishful thinking - lol)

Anyway here are the numbers and hope nobody faints from this posting - I was really unsure when I started looking at the numbers if I was seeing them correctly but I posted 22 hours ago so all this is updated at midnight our time - so it has to be correct -

GREENVILLE: 962635 (roughly 61,000 posted - and that is so super cool - that's a lot of words in 22 hours)
CHARLESTON: 968702 (about 77,000 posted - and they are only roughly 6000 words ahead of us now - so we can catch them and take over the lead again and hopefully we can continue to stay in the lead the rest of the week )

COLUMBIA 801041 (about 65,000 posted - jam up job for the columbia area considering they were running pretty close to the Elsewhere group and now they have sprinted way ahead leaving Elsewhere folks in their dust - I think they are trying to catch up to us but we can't have that either)

Elsewhere: 682251 (roughly 21,000 - see being the most covered areas doesn't necessarily mean you have the most prolific area - and they have the most participants 210 - so makes you feel sorry for them in a way).

Greenville Nanoers/Nanites rock - let's cross that finish line with a big bang - see you all in the postings and see you at the TGIO party I hope - E :)

Elysabeth Eldering
author of THE TULIP KISS and BUTTERFLY HALVES
BRIDE-AND-SEEK, a short story selected to appear in The Petigru Review (available now on amazon.com)
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/
www.emesemporium.net