I thought I'd built a winner's lounge. It's still being furnished and decorated - feel free to rearrange to your heart's content. So far you'll find:
- a quiet corner to put your feet up and pull a cold drink from the fridge - you've earned it by your hard graft;
- a balcony with rattles and whistles and such like, with a clear view of the finishing line, to cheer on people dragging themselves over the finishing line;
- a mirror to admire your self-satisfied smile you're no doubt wearing now that you've made it;
- a printer and some empty frames and wall space to mount your winner's certificate.
I must say that this year it's been harder than the last two. Not helped by the fact that I have now three completely different strands to my story, all based on the same story line, if with wildly varying plots. For now I see them as three parallel universes, but come Saturday they will be split into three separate files.
--Ornitorinco Pico
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160,056 / 50,000
nov. 29, 2007 - 16 36
[slouches in, picks up a beer and throws herself in a comfy chair in the corner]
Hey PB, what's up? Like what you've done with the place. Was that yucka here last year?
I've found the answer this year. It is... listen carefully now ... word wars!
Not just the regional one, but the little 5-30 minute ones they have in the chatroom. You wouldn't believe how many words you can get written in such a short amount of time. Plus it's a lot of fun. :-)
Also, having a story that's been soaking in your brain for the last twenty years probably makes a difference too... :-o
Come on everybody, the beer (or other refreshment of your choice) is cold, the nibbles are crisp and tangy, and the party's just about to take off!
[grabs a rattle and hooter and shakes and honks like a crazy person]
Lottie
----------*Hugs*
Lottie
ML for Europe::England:: Cambridge
cambridge_england[at]nanowrimo[dot]org
2007: Rising Angels, Falling Apes - ??
2006: An Ordinary World - 84k+
2005: Dreaming of Jack - 83k+
50,715 / 50,000
nov. 29, 2007 - 16 48
I DID IT I DID IIIT!!!
Er sorry.
La la la la la la la.
*twirls*
52,361 / 50,000
nov. 29, 2007 - 16 59
That's not a Yucca, it's Adam's needle.
Sorry, that's as close as I'll come to an entry for the worst sex scene competition this year. Unless I write one tomorrow.
I see from our lofty balcony how several people are teetering on the brink of finishing. Come on yous guys!
--PB
----------50,152 / 50,000
nov. 30, 2007 - 02 44
Anyone for a conga? La-la-la-la-la-AAH! La-la-la-la-la-YAY! La-laa-la-la, la-laa-la-la!
(Grabs a handful of nibbles on her way past...)
----------2006 Winner (undergoing revisions)
2007: Treasons, Stratagems and Spoils (alt history fantasy)
Three brothers, two murders, one stolen necklace - and a shipload of trouble!
~o~o~o~o~0~o~o~o~o~
57,602 / 50,000
nov. 30, 2007 - 04 55
Sorry, that's as close as I'll come to an entry for the worst sex scene competition this year. Unless I write one tomorrow.
--PB
I can't quite get my head round a celibate PB MC - or did we just scare you off?!
Ah well, have a cheese ball :)
51,357 / 50,000
nov. 30, 2007 - 05 09
I'd just like to wave my hands about and say "woo" quietly. Yes, I've got past 50k. The thing is I'm nowhere near finished and can't come up with a decent way of cutting the story short. Bah.
Still, I did it and I didn't think I would.
Moreover, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY! Hooray for me etc.
[eats twiglet]
50,152 / 50,000
nov. 30, 2007 - 08 01
Happy birthday!
Don't worry about not having finished the story - I haven't either. I'm just too knackered to come up with a big finale, so I'm going to save that for the rewrites. When I've finished revising last year's effort. Which is taking forever...
----------2006 Winner (undergoing revisions)
2007: Treasons, Stratagems and Spoils (alt history fantasy)
Three brothers, two murders, one stolen necklace - and a shipload of trouble!
~o~o~o~o~0~o~o~o~o~
51,357 / 50,000
nov. 30, 2007 - 08 41
Thanks!
Egad. Hopefully I'll have this thing finished before the next Nanowrimo comes around.
130,341 / 50,000
nov. 30, 2007 - 08 43
...or else you could have it turn into a multi-NaNo trilogy monster thing, like mine did....
----------______________________________________
Anne-Lise [ML for Europe::England::Cambridge]
~2007: the umbran alliance
~2006: adaptation
~2005: a life in the day
~2004: trinity
51,357 / 50,000
nov. 30, 2007 - 09 00
Hmm. You might be on to something there. I could do 10 years' worth of story each year. That'd equal three Nanos.
Now if I can somehow jump from 1970 to 1978 in the next 5000 words I'll be fine :)
160,056 / 50,000
nov. 30, 2007 - 09 01
(Grabs a handful of nibbles on her way past...)
Sniglet, I think she's quoting from your novel. :-)
Happy Birthday Laurence. What a day to have your birthday on! :-)
Congrats to everyone who's crossed the finish line. Come on everyone else. You can do it, we know you can! :-D
[Puts some beer above the radiator to warm it a little in time for John's arrival...]
Rah, rah, rah, etc.
Now I must get back to writing. Still lots of words to go and eight whole hours to write in...
*Hugs*
Lottie
ML for Europe::England:: Cambridge
cambridge_england[at]nanowrimo[dot]org
2007: Rising Angels, Falling Apes - ??
----------2006: An Ordinary World - 84k+
2005: Dreaming of Jack - 83k+
*Hugs*
Lottie
ML for Europe::England:: Cambridge
cambridge_england[at]nanowrimo[dot]org
2007: Rising Angels, Falling Apes - ??
2006: An Ordinary World - 84k+
2005: Dreaming of Jack - 83k+
52,503 / 50,000
nov. 30, 2007 - 09 33
Ah, thanks Lottie! (Pops the top, pours gently into a glass - with a handle, of course!)
That's my biggest single day - nearly 5000 words! But I gained 300 just from the NaNoWriMo word counter (I thought I was under 51k!). And I left Clowns before 4pm!
I might even do a bit more this evening. Or I might not - depends how this beer goes to my head. :-)
----------2005: The Wolf and the Rose
2006: Dig for Victory! Winner!
2007: Freedom is a Sweet Word Winner!
50,152 / 50,000
nov. 30, 2007 - 09 49
Egad. Hopefully I'll have this thing finished before the next Nanowrimo comes around.
Yeah, that was my plan too - but then the story started mutating on me, plus last year's effort was my first more-or-less-finished novel and I'd underestimated how time-consuming the revision process was going to be. Even seemingly minor plot changes have required the rewriting of entire scenes to accommodate the altered relationships between characters...
----------2006 Winner (undergoing revisions)
2007: Treasons, Stratagems and Spoils (alt history fantasy)
Three brothers, two murders, one stolen necklace - and a shipload of trouble!
~o~o~o~o~0~o~o~o~o~
50,099 / 50,000
nov. 30, 2007 - 09 57
Woop! Hooray! :)
I even managed to get in my challenge line of dialogue
"We're too late... he's eaten the biscuits"
Now I'm off for a birthday drink! See some of you tomorrow! :)
51,357 / 50,000
nov. 30, 2007 - 10 00
I've already experienced that knock-on effect during the little revision work I've done. Gulp. I guess it's going to take as long to revise the bleedin thing as it'll take to write it in the first place.
At least my characters are behaving themselves. They're beginning to show the full range of fears and insecurities that I had in store for them. I actually killed one of them this morning. I knew it was going to happen, but it was a damn shock for the rest of them, poor things. Now they're sitting on the top of Primrose Hill wondering what to do next.
50,444 / 50,000
nov. 30, 2007 - 14 08
I won! Just popped over 50000 about twenty minutes ago, then spent seemingly several days 'find and replace'-ing every single letter. I'm still not sure why I couldn't have just pasted the whole thing in in its proper form. Still, apparently my plans worked out pretty well, I was hoping to finish today or yesterday, and I probably could've yesterday if I wanted, but I decided to just go nice and leisurely through the last 500 words tonight, which I did. So yes, that was my first Nano, and theoretically the longest single piece of writing I've ever composed (even though it may well not be all that 'singular' at all), hopefully I'll be back next year.
50,418 / 50,000
nov. 30, 2007 - 16 09
Hey, this looks great! Mind if I join you all?
There were more than a few times when the finish line looked impossible to reach, but I made it, so I'll just pop over to that fridge and get myself a drink to celebrate.
Congratulations everybody! Woohoo!
Think I'm going to head out onto that balcony now to cheer on those still just arriving.
50,024 / 50,000
nov. 30, 2007 - 16 41
I did it i di it ii di iti . i cnat typoe any more but i id diit.
jsut look at the stats pahge for m, andyou will see hwat i find exciting
*bounces manidaccally round the room*
*installs a spellchecker*
there thats my contruibution tot he decor...
----------The Shadowlover
130,341 / 50,000
nov. 30, 2007 - 17 00
Yay to all!
I am sooooo going to use some of that newfangled technology stuff to produce my oeuvre next year, seeing as I just managed to produce as much in a couple of hours of typing tonight as I had done in several *days* of handwriting the blasted stuff....
[ whimpers and crawls away, trying to clutch at snacky items with the giant misshapen claw the hand has transmogrified into ]
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Anne-Lise [ML for Europe::England::Cambridge]
~2007: the umbran alliance
~2006: adaptation
~2005: a life in the day
~2004: trinity
102,337 / 50,000
nov. 30, 2007 - 17 19
Congratulations to everyone! It was great to see so many of you hit that manic last day and shoot over the winning line! And yay for me too cos I made it past the double - I hit writer's block 2000 words short and did not think I was going to make it. This one is actually close to finished which is a shock in itself!
Enjoy the party and that lovely sense of smugness that comes with December (before you remember all the other things that come with December that you have been ignoring for the last month...) and the end of NaNo for another year. *wipes away a sentimental tear*
Happy Birthday to our birthday winners!
And all hail Lottie's monopoly like final word count! Damn but your fingers must be tired!
Sleep well everyone!
----------2005 - Team 324 - contemporary action smut - 53K (now 57K) unfinished
2006 - Dragon's Breath - fantasy romance smut - 82.5K (still 82.5K) unfinished
2007 - Dark Masters: Smoke - sci-fi smut
(I'm better at the unfinished part than the smut part!)
102,337 / 50,000
nov. 30, 2007 - 17 18
Ooops! Mustn't try and correct typos after I've hit the Submit button! Sorry!
----------2005 - Team 324 - contemporary action smut - 53K (now 57K) unfinished
2006 - Dragon's Breath - fantasy romance smut - 82.5K (still 82.5K) unfinished
2007 - Dark Masters: Smoke - sci-fi smut
(I'm better at the unfinished part than the smut part!)
160,056 / 50,000
nov. 30, 2007 - 18 25
[limps back in and slumps in the corner, nursing her sore wrists with an icepack]
Congratulations to everyone who made it!
Wow, I'm tired. That was by far the most I've ever written in one day! Argh! I think it might take until next year for my wrists to recover.
Now I can't stop laughing over the entries for the WSS competition!
My sides hurt! :-)
Lottie
----------*Hugs*
Lottie
ML for Europe::England:: Cambridge
cambridge_england[at]nanowrimo[dot]org
2007: Rising Angels, Falling Apes - ??
2006: An Ordinary World - 84k+
2005: Dreaming of Jack - 83k+
50,614 / 50,000
déc. 1, 2007 - 04 40
oops sorry I am late.
I finish my 50,000 word count a few days ago. The moment it was done. My home needed some major TLC! Now that my home is back in order I can join the fun in the winner's lounge.
By the way who is the person with the lampshade on his head?
----------Take care,
Snarfgirl2007
50,152 / 50,000
déc. 1, 2007 - 06 19
I even managed to get in my challenge line of dialogue
"We're too late... he's eaten the biscuits"
I look forward to reading that - hope it's as much fun as the last two! (Well, OK, the first one plus the few bits of the second that have seen the light of day) :D
Now you have me trying to guess who ate the biscuits - Owen himself? Peters? Haynes? I love series novels!
----------2006 Winner (undergoing revisions)
2007: Treasons, Stratagems and Spoils (alt history fantasy)
Three brothers, two murders, one stolen necklace - and a shipload of trouble!
~o~o~o~o~0~o~o~o~o~
50,152 / 50,000
déc. 1, 2007 - 06 23
By the way who is the person with the lampshade on his head?
That's Andrew (Arathalion). Apparently someone told him that Lottie found some leftover tattoos from last year, and now he won't take the lampshade off for fear we'll plaster his face in them again *lol*
----------2006 Winner (undergoing revisions)
2007: Treasons, Stratagems and Spoils (alt history fantasy)
Three brothers, two murders, one stolen necklace - and a shipload of trouble!
~o~o~o~o~0~o~o~o~o~
52,481 / 50,000
déc. 1, 2007 - 08 54
By the way who is the person with the lampshade on his head?
That's Andrew (Arathalion). Apparently someone told him that Lottie found some leftover tattoos from last year, and now he won't take the lampshade off for fear we'll plaster his face in them again *lol*
What?! I don't recall ever doing that...although, it sounds like the kind of thing I might possibly potentially do, maybe.
Where is the picture? Where/when was it taken?