Your ML's have been diligent in your honor this fall! One of our many cool surprises for you this year is a partnership with the Portland Region Novelists! We had a conversation with the guys and gals over there and are now fighting for our right to claim we're the best! If you guys decide you want to do it, they have challenged us to a duel of words!
This is not just any duel, it's a Word War Extravaganza! Anyone who wants to do this (on both sides) will have their words counted at the end of November in order to show who, between Portland and Vancouver is the most awesome at word count! Portland did pretty well last year. And they have a new ML this year, so that means they may have some hidden tricks up their sleeves. But we too have a new ML this year, and I'm certain our bag of tricks will kick their bag's butt!
What do you say guys? You up to the challenge?
Do you know what the Municipal Liaison from Portland told me? She told me that she was going to beat me in word count this year! I'm not going to stand for that! There's no way she's going to beat me. There's no way they can beat us!
Lets show them what we've got!
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To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve
50,201 / 50,000
sept. 29, 2008 - 09 10
Count me in for the challenge!
Carissa
50,233 / 50,000
sept. 29, 2008 - 11 10
I'm definitely in. Match me up with a Portlander and we'll see which side of the river is wordier. :p
Can we call this "The Battle of the Bridges?"
----------54,870 / 50,000
sept. 29, 2008 - 15 07
Portland has suggested that instead of matching person-to-person (because of the size difference) we should instead do a word war average. Team's average word count per person. It would bridge the gap! Also, they seem to like the Battle of the Bridges title.
----------To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve
0 / 50,000
oct. 3, 2008 - 16 50
I am sooooo on board. Woot woot and down with portland!!!
----------Kimberly Walsh
www.kimberlydwalsh.com
www.kwalshdesigns.com
54,870 / 50,000
oct. 3, 2008 - 18 05
Thanks Ris! You rock my socks!
----------To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve
54,870 / 50,000
oct. 3, 2008 - 18 08
Tally2! You rock as well! Thanks for volunteering.
----------To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve
839 / 50,000
oct. 4, 2008 - 07 55
Oh, I'm so in! Any chance to show Portland that Vancouver kicks their butts!
----------Anne Lacey
9,116 / 50,000
oct. 10, 2008 - 05 55
Sounds like much fun, I'm definitely in!
50,768 / 50,000
oct. 13, 2008 - 15 07
Totally count me in.
Thanks for organizing this!
/innowen
----------Round Six: 50,000 Words or Bust!
54,870 / 50,000
oct. 13, 2008 - 22 53
We love kicking portlands butt! If only Vancouver had a pro-sports team as well. We'd totally beat some bum.
----------To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve
50,768 / 50,000
oct. 15, 2008 - 22 23
We totally need bowling shirts. :)
/innowen
----------Round Six: 50,000 Words or Bust!
54,870 / 50,000
oct. 16, 2008 - 00 03
That'd be awesome.
We can pick a team name, and nicknames to put on the backs of our shirts. But be careful, the shoes are slippery.
----------To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve
26,554 / 50,000
oct. 29, 2008 - 21 29
Poor punks won't know what hit them. After all, we need to fill our own Powell's worth, don't we?
----------Haunted by her song;
a bird I dreamed of once.
awoken, lost forever.
54,870 / 50,000
oct. 29, 2008 - 23 17
Ohhhh! I just got a Nano-Mail message from one of the Portland ML's and THEY THINK THEY'RE GOING TO WIN! PFFT!
We definitely cannot have that.
----------To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve
50,412 / 50,000
nov. 1, 2008 - 23 48
Definitely count me in too.
----------___________
Shake and shake
The catsup bottle
None will come,
And then a lot'll.
-- Richard Armour
52,036 / 50,000
nov. 11, 2008 - 11 34
*Dons her rainbow striped sweatband and matching wristbands*
I guess I'll jump on this bandwagon!
Come on Coovians!
*Performs a hamstring stretch and then attempts to touch her toes*
50,632 / 50,000
nov. 11, 2008 - 16 06
Count me in too!
50,318 / 50,000
nov. 11, 2008 - 17 39
LOL! I laughed a lot when I read this thread. Count me in too! I'd like to show them that Vancouver is just as "weird" as Portland and that we'll bury them in a mountain of our words!
----------NaNo 2008: All's Fair In Lusting Not Loving