Show our ML Some Love

Yes, thank you so much for 'hosting' us. I know it is a lot of additional work!

A picture is worth a thousand words, but it uses up three thousand times the memory.

Thank you so much, Em! We wouldn't be as amazing as we are if it weren't for your hard work!

Pots of tea consumed: 4
Hours slept: 112
Hours worked: 109
WW won / total: 14 / 24
Characters killed: 2
Parts completed: 1.25 / 5
Daily count max: 9000
[[as of day 17]]

Overachiever Goal: 75,000 words

Hooray for Emily! Thanks for toiling over the numbers and the making the calls and arranging for places for us to sit.

Wheeeeee!!!!! *picks up lazym and spins her around*
Oh, wait. I hope you don't get vertigo... :)

My first year, I didn't go anywhere, not a single event. I didn't really realize they existed. But we organized some writing groups via the forums here and I was more in touch with the local community. My second year, 2005, I went to the kickoff, and Em was the ML (her first year I think?), so she's the only one I've known.

In many ways you're what Nano is for me, Em. and notice I'm back for the 6th year. So... thank you! We couldn't have a better one - the rest of the world can just be jealous ;)

" ... but what the hell, I'm not Salinger or Pynchon. I can't be. I'm here."
-- Guy Gavriel Kay

Thank you Em, for all the hard work you do for us here in the Austin area and for WriMo itself!
*big hugs*

--Jenn
http://www.nanoedmo.net

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities - Maya Angelou
It is our task, to weave magic from the ordinary husks of daily living - Earl Newton, strangerthings.tv

Thank you, Em for organizing the Penguins year after year :) We are blessed to have so dedicated an ML in our region. Meeting you in person at my first TGIO party (or possibly even NaNoBruMo) has kept me coming back each year.

Keep up the great work!

Woo, etc, so on, so forth. :)

Lazym..you rock girl. After all these years, still plugging away and diligently coordinating stuff..not to mention you probably have a life, have a job etc. Thanks for this crazy commitment because we can't do without you during this month. [applause]

hope your writing is going well,

TexasDutchie/Ingrid

When we can name the systems and institutions that we must resist -- and change, and eventually destroy -- then we can begin the hard work of creating the path toward that change.
Robert Jensen

Lazym
You are a gem
In your neon green shirt
Cheering us on til our fingers hurt
At your feet we would forever grovel
But you'd just say "Go work on your novel"
Because you are our gem
Lazym

Yay Emily! She's the best ML ever!

Thank you for everything you do!

www.allysonwhipple.com
My Lulu.com storefront

2005-2007: Epic fail!
2008: Winter White Lights (Winner!)
2009: Loveless Gospels

Thanks, Lazym! I remember when I met you at my first TGIO party I felt like I was meeting someone famous. XD Thank you so much for all your hard work!

You're part of what makes this so fun. Em. Glad to be partnered with you on this writing frenzy. Thanks for all you do, known and unknown.

R. L. Copple
http://www.rlcopple.com
Infinite Realties
Transforming Realities

Hi, Em! Here's hoping you had a happy Happy ML Day =)

The Austin group wouldn't be the same without you.

<3 Amber

happy belated ML Day. Perhaps it should be a whole weekend worth of appreciation!

(except for it's now Monday.)

Thank you for your efforts, every day.

mitda

Aw…. Thank you everyone for the posts and PMs and emails. And even a poem! I’m not exaggering when I say that this is the best Wrimo region in the world. Here are some words that describe y’all:

fun (and funny)
engaging
respectful
energetic
helpful
inventive
inclusive
generous
(and that’s just off the top of my head, without benefit of a thesaurus).

I’m so proud of everyone this year – great word counts, wonderful donation rate, and a friendly supportive atmosphere online and at our meetups. I couldn’t do it without you! It’s a pleasure to be your ML.

ML Captain of Capital Ideas & Austin, TX Municipal Liaison

Crap... Am I too late? May I also add my kudos to the ML-of -the-world thread?

Em is the greatest ML in the history of ML-ing.
(How great is she?)
She is so great that people who leave the Austin area keep coming back here more than they hang out in their new region forum!

She personally handed me the motivation last year to banish the Soul-Stealing Weasels of Despair from my NaNo-world which allowed me to actually win.

Thanks Em!

Tweetywill
The Piker Press

Oooops, late to the party! I was off writing (lol)...

Major thanks and kudos to our ML, doing a tiresome, mostly thankless task that pays far less than minimum wage!

May our ML rain erm REIGN forever! Sorry, I got poured on this morning, I blame water on the brain...

What in heck is a WOOLY loach? http://writing.woolyloach.com

Now I know I'm in trouble. I was trying to figure out what word emily was spelling with the first letter of each line of her note. doh....I really need to stop playing word games and just WRITE.

After all, regardless of what any of us does or says, Emily takes it in stride and has kind things to say to us. We can embarrass her all to the ends of the earth and back and she'll just blush that beautiful shade of red which complements her neon green shirt perfectly. Then she'll say kind things to us. We can tease her, we can torment her, we can make her feel as if she'd prefer to not have any more hair on her head to pull out from our annoyances, but she'll merely smile and say kind things to us.

Encouragement. Praise. Positive reinforcement. Gentle reminders.

All kind things Emily says to us.

The first time I met Emily I was in such awe that I could barely speak to her. Then later, as I got to know her, I was amazed by her mind and could still barely speak. Now, I'm just stunned into silence that she puts herself through this craziness each year. I have learned, though, that speaking with Emily is by far one of the best things to ever come out of NaNo.

Oh yeah. Word count. Purpose. And Kind words.

All from the most awesome of MLs in all of NaNoLand.

LazyM, your spouse warned me about this day... {smirk}

We love ya!!!

DaShlom

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My NaNo blog for the year: http://nnwm09.blogspot.com/