I need a motivator.
I'm easily confused, and the actual word war forum confuses me. I want just one person (or a few) to war with.
I can write at about 1000 wph if I get motivated, but so far today I've only written 1750 words because, well, I'm just not that motivated.
10 minutes? 20? 30? I'm up for whatever! So does anyone want to word war? You don't even need to try very hard - you'll be doing me a big favour if you say yes and war with me for any time up to half an hour. Then once I've had time to rehydrate, maybe another word war. And another....
I'm here all day, folks! :-)
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Ruth
Municipal Liaison - Palmerston North, New Zealand
http://phyntosia.blogspot.com
116,033 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 18 56
Hm, yes, a word war sounds like a good idea.
Just let me get some of my crucial housework procrastination out of the way first.... then I'll be game.
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62,706 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 19 00
Excellent, a willing victim *rubs hands together*
----------Ruth
Municipal Liaison - Palmerston North, New Zealand
http://phyntosia.blogspot.com
116,033 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 19 11
Uh oh....
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73,740 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 19 11
I've got 20min right now if your up for it? ;-)
----------Main Character plot twists:
- fallen through thin ice
- attacked by a wolf
- best friend poisoned
- fallen in love, been betrayed by her
- rescued people from a fire and then had the burning building collapse on him
This guy has some bad luck!
62,706 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 19 17
Sure! Twenty minutes starting at 4.20pm?
----------Ruth
Municipal Liaison - Palmerston North, New Zealand
http://phyntosia.blogspot.com
73,740 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 19 19
Perfect - I'm not sure how this works though... I assume at the end of 20 min we let each other know where we're at?
----------Main Character plot twists:
- fallen through thin ice
- attacked by a wolf
- best friend poisoned
- fallen in love, been betrayed by her
- rescued people from a fire and then had the burning building collapse on him
This guy has some bad luck!
116,033 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 19 20
I'll join the 4.20 fun.... how do you want to do this?
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62,706 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 19 23
Yup. I'm at 2300 words now, so I'll just check my total word count at the end and see how much I've written. I assume you're at 31199 words, so you'd do likewise. The winner gets the grand prize of GLORY in this thread! We each just time ourselves from 4.20-4.40pm... speaking of which... it's after 4.20pm... I'm off!
----------Ruth
Municipal Liaison - Palmerston North, New Zealand
http://phyntosia.blogspot.com
62,706 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 19 42
Sweet! Just reply after 4.40pm with how many words you wrote during the twenty minutes :-)
*off again*
----------Ruth
Municipal Liaison - Palmerston North, New Zealand
http://phyntosia.blogspot.com
62,706 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 19 41
Awwwww. I got a respectable number of words out, if not quite as much as I'd hoped: 782 words. How'd you guys go?
----------Ruth
Municipal Liaison - Palmerston North, New Zealand
http://phyntosia.blogspot.com
73,740 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 19 43
Argh I had a mental block in the 12th minute.. got 516 done
----------Main Character plot twists:
- fallen through thin ice
- attacked by a wolf
- best friend poisoned
- fallen in love, been betrayed by her
- rescued people from a fire and then had the burning building collapse on him
This guy has some bad luck!
116,033 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 19 44
I got about 1100 words out (I was on a bit of a roll, and didn't notice that the time had ticked over to 4.40 until it got to about 4.42). Not bad - I got distracted somewhere along the halfway mark.
516 and 782 is nothing to sneeze at.
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73,740 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 19 48
ooooh well done... now I'll go back to my procrastination...
----------Main Character plot twists:
- fallen through thin ice
- attacked by a wolf
- best friend poisoned
- fallen in love, been betrayed by her
- rescued people from a fire and then had the burning building collapse on him
This guy has some bad luck!
62,706 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 19 51
Cool! I feel happy anyway - and I think those are all decent word counts for 20 minutes! :-)
I was hoping to get to 1000, but I guess that would be a speed of 3000wph, which is pretty insane...speaking of which, hats off to ratesjul! :-)
I have done 1000 in a half-hour burst before, but I might set the timer and try and get 1000 words in twenty minutes, starting from 5 o'clock. If anyone wants to join me, that's great, otherwise I'll just challenge myself to get 1000 words out in 20 minutes anyway. :-)
I wrote a couple of bullet-points down so I knew where I was going in that 20-minute burst, and then I didn't even use them... I still find it useful to have some bullet-points to give me some direction, though.
I'm finding it difficult to write my current scenes since they're in a situation where they can't talk at all - it's really hard to write a (non-fight/love) scene with no dialogue, I find!
----------Ruth
Municipal Liaison - Palmerston North, New Zealand
http://phyntosia.blogspot.com
116,033 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 19 57
I was using http://writeordie.drwicked.com/ - which is great fun for wordwars. Except for when someone tries to send you an IM in th emiddle and you lose track of what the heck you're doing.
I've been known to shock myself by churning out 1200 words in a 10 minute burst from time to time - but it doesn't happen very often (it's a legacy from last year, I think, when I did all my typing before and after work, or in half hour slots on library computers). I do tend to average something like 1000+ words an hour, if my watch isn't lying when I load it into my Excel calculator spreadsheet. This time I was hoping for 750 words.
I'll join you at 5.
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73,740 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 19 57
I might give the 1000 words in 20min ago too... assuming I dont have a mental block I think I can do it (the power of positive thinking!!
----------Main Character plot twists:
- fallen through thin ice
- attacked by a wolf
- best friend poisoned
- fallen in love, been betrayed by her
- rescued people from a fire and then had the burning building collapse on him
This guy has some bad luck!
40,078 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 20 22
oh man, I'm so slow. But that sun really was good. I'm up for it if anyone's doing another :)
60,045 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 20 24
Aw dang it I missed all the fun. Anyone want to go again at 5:30?
----------Long live me and long live anarchy!
- Drunkard, for whom the bell tolls...
73,740 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 20 24
Yes!!! 1101 words!!! phew I didn't think I was going to be able to pull that off.
----------Main Character plot twists:
- fallen through thin ice
- attacked by a wolf
- best friend poisoned
- fallen in love, been betrayed by her
- rescued people from a fire and then had the burning building collapse on him
This guy has some bad luck!
73,740 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 20 25
Sure thing another 20min so finish at 5.50?
***
Arguments: 5
Characters: 13
Animals: 2
Near death experiences: 3
***
----------The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.
Main Character plot twists:
- fallen through thin ice
- attacked by a wolf
- best friend poisoned
- fallen in love, been betrayed by her
- rescued people from a fire and then had the burning building collapse on him
This guy has some bad luck!
116,033 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 20 25
Go Jayzstar!!! :)
Doesn't it feel good when you pull that one off?
I got 1106 this time around.
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62,706 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 20 26
No 1000 words for me :-( I got 887 words down this time!
At least I've broken 4000 now, though. :-)
----------Ruth
Municipal Liaison - Palmerston North, New Zealand
http://phyntosia.blogspot.com
60,045 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 20 27
Yep! 20 minutes :)
----------Long live me and long live anarchy!
- Drunkard, for whom the bell tolls...
62,706 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 20 28
Another one at 5.30pm, you say? *rolls up sleeves* 1000 words! Third time lucky! I am determined.
----------Ruth
Municipal Liaison - Palmerston North, New Zealand
http://phyntosia.blogspot.com
40,078 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 20 28
I'm up for 5.30!
116,033 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 20 30
Yay for breaking the 800 words in 20minutes. And yay for 4k!!
Now, five thou is just around the corner....
And it's 5.30. Eek! I'd better get started!
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Nov 7, 2009 - 20 46
*puts hand up* If you guys are doing one at, say, 6 pm I'd be really really really interested in doing one.
40,078 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 20 50
808 here! Not too bad I think. My husband came home with grapes, and I could not resist!!
62,706 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 20 50
1021 in 20 minutes! YEAHHH!!!
*punches air*
How did y'all go?
----------Ruth
Municipal Liaison - Palmerston North, New Zealand
http://phyntosia.blogspot.com
60,045 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 20 54
Gah. 663. But I did get interrupted by fresh blueberry muffins comming out of the (edit) oven (you idiot) half way through...
How do you guys to 1,000 words! That is impressive :)
----------Long live me and long live anarchy!
- Drunkard, for whom the bell tolls...