I'm procrastinating from homework (practicing for November) and I noticed that California:: South Bay is currently at the top of the Donations chart at $1075! That is pretty sweet.
Where are we hoping to rank on Word Count this year? If I remember right (I rarely do), we were 23 or 24 last year. I think Maryland slaughtered us. Who should we challenge?
Have I mentioned I'm procrastinating?
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Meals are books for the body.
"Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts." -John Green
125,319 / 50,000
sept. 29, 2008 - 18 38
Do you think it would be too much to try to get into the top 10?
I guess it would depend upon how many writers each of the regions ahead of us have.
But what the heck. let's go for it!
S
1,589 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2008 - 20 50
I'm down to make "out-word-pad-Maryland" cupcakes.
*nods*
59,001 / 50,000
oct. 4, 2008 - 15 26
Look at this Q&A with a Seattle ML! Just look at it! "Seattle has the highest word count and funds raised of any NaNoWriMo region for two years running." We can take Seattle! We can totally take them! We're already crushing them in donations.
(This is a fine time to make a donation to NaNoWriMo, if you haven't already, so you can get a cool donor halo, and other cool donor goodies, too.)
%) Lisa
South Bay co-ML
13,431 / 50,000
oct. 16, 2008 - 19 27
Who to challenge... Well, there seems a logical choice or two... how about North Bay? or East Bay? Or a three-way? (Is there a West Bay? I'm just attending college here, so I don't know.)
125,319 / 50,000
oct. 16, 2008 - 19 58
Uh-oh...
Seattle is ahead of us in the donation department by $65!
Come on everyone! Dig deep into those couch cushions! Let's show them we're not going to let them take the number 1 spot!
50,001 / 50,000
oct. 23, 2008 - 10 35
Does just having South Bay as your region make your donations hit us? Or do we need to specify somewhere?
59,001 / 50,000
oct. 23, 2008 - 10 52
It's based off your home region. Not sure how long it takes for the scoreboard to update, though.
59,001 / 50,000
oct. 23, 2008 - 10 53
oops, duplicate post
21,128 / 50,000
oct. 26, 2008 - 11 40
The woman interviewed in the Seattle Q&A sounded a little too high and mighty for her own good. Of course you know that this means war!
"Tech savvy?" We live in Silicon f***ing Valley! We can take 'em!
50,001 / 50,000
oct. 27, 2008 - 21 38
Does our night of writing dangerously fundraising count against our totals? I think we'd have an unfair advantage. ;)
59,001 / 50,000
oct. 28, 2008 - 17 57
Good question. I'm pretty sure money raised for NoWD isn't counted on the donation scoreboard, which is most likely only tracking donations made by a particular username (rather than sponsorships collected for the event).
125,319 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2008 - 09 51
Ladies and Gentleman,
The South Bay is number 36 in word count ranking. I would like to see us at least in the teens, if not single digits, so I shall get up on my box and start cheering.
Come on - write write write!
Go Go Go!
Win win win!
Use dream sequences, have your character give a speech, kill Cliff Brooks, write about plot ninjas..
WE CAN DO IT!
Pad those novels people!
51,297 / 50,000
nov. 9, 2008 - 20 03
I pledged through my office's giving campaign to give a donation- but the deductions won't start until '09. Sigh.
59,001 / 50,000
nov. 18, 2008 - 18 11
Okay, it's November 18, and the South Bay's position on the scoreboard for word count is holding fairly steady at 34. Respectable, but we may need to work on that, or find a similarly sized region to pit ourselves against.
However, for donations, we are rocking the scoreboard at third place, and we may need to work hard to keep that important spot, because one of the East Bay MLs has delivered a smackdown challenge in her latest regional email. Yes, I am affiliated with several local regions, but my home region is THE GREATEST REGION IN THE WORLD, THE SOUTH BAY, just like yours, right? But I digress. This upstart East Bay ML had the gall to say:
The not-nearly-as-awesome South Bay?!?!? IN THE WORLD in all caps?!?!? We can't let that impudence stand! Get thee to the donation page to earn yourself a halo and show those East Bayers that we're the donation champs!
%) Lisa
co-ML, THE GREATEST REGION IN THE WORLD
15,069 / 50,000
nov. 20, 2008 - 00 25
Hey we just moved up to 32! I know it's because I added 2000 words in the last two days!!! LOL
50,546 / 50,000
nov. 21, 2008 - 18 54
We're back at 34 again, and the next group up is 'Parts of Pennsylvania Too Vague to Mention'. I dunno if we can really look at this as being a 1:1 competition, since #1 is the entire city of Seattle, #2 is the entire -state- of Maryland, #3 is two countries (Germany and Austria), and #4 is Holland -and- Belgium, whereas we get broken down into San Francisco, San Francisco Peninsula, East Bay, and South Bay. Add us all together as the Bay Area, and we'd be number 1. :)
Nevertheless, I don't think I'm going to stop at 50K, and have more than enough to keep adding to our total over the next 10 days --and I have next week off. :)
-Traveller
50,734 / 50,000
nov. 26, 2008 - 15 12
#28 today wordcountwise - yay! Can't wait until everybody uploads
50,056 / 50,000
nov. 28, 2008 - 12 33
We're at a nice even $2000 donations today... which sounds good except it puts us at 5th place.
In related news, I want my donor halo! I wonder if the site is just slow to update?
Aaaand... though Seattle and the East Bay are both beating us in total WC, we have a higher average WC than both of them. That's got to count for something!
59,001 / 50,000
nov. 29, 2008 - 14 18
Yesterday we were down to 30 on the word count scoreboard, but today we are at #27! Next challenger: New Zealand. Remember, every word counts!
97,638 / 50,000
nov. 29, 2008 - 15 09
Don't let my purple bar fool anyone. I'm still trying to finish my novel, so you can count on me adding thousands of more words before the 30th.
As long as my fingers don't fall off from all the 30 minute word wars I've been doing.
52,458 / 50,000
nov. 30, 2008 - 17 50
Ca Bookwyrm, you're not the only donor who's missing a halo. If you write to the donations/Store about it, it might help. I don't know for sure, as I just wrote to them for the second time today about the non-appearance of my halo. I hope it's because they're flooded with donors helping Nanowrimo get out of their cash bind problem this year.
I know times are really tough right now, everyone. But if you can afford to part with a little discretionary cash, no donation is too small. Considering how fun Nano is, I think they're worth parting with ten dollars, or so.
Melissa