Okay - I randomly picked two states that had about the same amount of participants we do - we have a total of 701 participants registered throughout the state
Kentucky has 804 and Louisiana has 709 - so roughly same number of participants, and two bigger states than we are.
Here is how they stack up:
KENTUCKY:
BOWLING GREEN: 348,493 (ranking is 293rd out of 349 participating areas)
ELSEWHERE: 1450475 (ranking is 144th)
LEXINGTON: 604640 (ranking is 240th)
LOUISVILLE: 1377728 (ranking is 155th)
STATE TOTAL: 3781336 (they have about 100 more participants than we do and are only about 210,000 words ahead of us statewide)
LOUISIANA:
BATON ROUGE: 892025 (ranking is197th)
ELSEWHERE: 954413 (ranking is 190th)
LAFAYETTE: 497919 (ranking is 266th)
NEW ORLEANS: 625271 (ranking is 238th)
STATE TOTAL: 2969628 (significantly below us for roughly the same number of participants as we have)
Our ranks are as follows (and all of these are out of the 349 listed on the word count scoreboard)
GREENVILLE: Rank 182nd
CHARLESTON: Rank 181st
COLUMBIA: Rank 203rd
ELSEWHERE: Rank 227th ---
So we are up there - about half way in the rankings roughly - and maybe we will jump up some but not much by the end - way to go South Carolinians in general and Greenville for pulling more than their share of depositing words into NaNO
(just an FYI - the #1 ranked place is Washington State, Seattle area with 13,646,903 (with 1931 participants) and there is a tie for the last place - with both places not posting any words so guessing we should go out of 347th since 0 words don't really count - so 347th place is Africa, Elsewhere with only 8293 words posted (only 19 people participating in this region - but it is probably because they have limited electricity and limited internet connection and are considered a third world area - very poor in resources and probably illiterate at best).
Even with 347 regions posting words - we are doing great - you all keep up the good work - see you all in the postings - E :)
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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
51,028 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2007 - 10 54
One of the WriMos on the Lunaescence Archive boards is from Louisiana - Elsewhere, and she was excited that they were winning their word war with the rest of the state. She was also excited to have beaten me to 50K by several hours (we had a word war going there).
Now, I need to get back to my writing and add some more words to our count!!
ETA: If you respond to this thread, make sure you cut the title back a little; what Elysabeth put up there is okay, but the addition of "RE:" brings the character count over the title limit.
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5,790 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2007 - 11 05
Now, I need to get back to my writing and add some more words to our count!!
ETA: If you respond to this thread, make sure you cut the title back a little; what Elysabeth put up there is okay, but the addition of "RE:" brings the character count over the title limit.
Isn't that fun to be word warring with someone from another state and region and I just happened to post from the area that you knew someone from - lol - Thanks for the info about cutting the title back - I appreciate it - and I will probably be adding some words the next couple of days - 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
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----------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
52,431 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2007 - 18 19
Well here in MS we are ranked 161 with 1,223,042 words. There are 249 participants.
I'm still trying to decide where I want my words to go... hmm. think think think...
Caitie Jo
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