Hello Fellow North Carolina Wrimos!
My name is Jess and I'm co-ML of Asheville. I'm writing to you, my NC Wrimo brethren, to challenge you to a North Carolina Regional Word War this year!
I don't know individual MLs of each region so I'm posting this on each region's forum. MLs, feel free to nanomail me directly to let me know if your region is interested in participating.
Haven't figured out what winners/losers get, so suggestions are welcome!
See you in November!
Jess
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ML for Asheville, NC
The Road Trip of "Why?"
Current location: Route 66, Joplin, MO
102,780 / 50,000
oct. 8, 2008 - 20 27
I'm not an ML, but if our ML is gathering opinions, I'd love to join a word war. I've done a couple against other people in the past, but seeing as how I usually set my goal over 50,000 words anyways, they're not always that exciting. But a regional word war would definitely be exciting!
31,899 / 50,000
oct. 13, 2008 - 08 56
The challenge is on!
I created a blog with word count widgets for each of our regions. Once word count is active, each one will show the current word count and people writing for each region.
Click here to visit the NC word war blog!
MLs, e-mail (wordfencer@gmail.com) or message me and I'll send you the e-mail/password to get into the site. Then you can post updates, photos from write-ins, links, etc. for your region.
We're also working on "prizes" for the winning regions (1st, 2nd, 3rd). Are there any crafty people out there who'd be interested in making simple trophies/awards?
Good luck to everyone!
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WT: The Road Trip of "Why?"
Current location: West Chester, OH
79,628 / 50,000
nov. 3, 2008 - 05 53
This is my first time for this sort of thing, but I'll be happy to join a war. So far I have a good start on the 50,000 - wrote 15 hours the first day so I could get ahead. Thought I'll get to write most days, I'll probably not be able to log in that many hours at one stretch again.
31,899 / 50,000
nov. 14, 2008 - 08 47
Clarification of Word Count
To level the playing field - because it's unfair for the 7 people in Greenville to be competing against 176 people in Raleigh-Durham - we're counting words per person in each region to calculate who's "winning." For example, as of this writing, the totals are:
Greenville - 14,560 wpp
Asheville - 14,553 wpp
Chapell Hill - 12,728 wpp
Elsewhere - 11,858 wpp
Raleigh-Durham - 11,837 wpp
Fayetteville - 11,804 wpp
Charlotte - 11,290 wpp
Just wanted to make sure we're all counting the same way! :) Any questions, nanomail me!
Good luck everyone!
Jess
60,964 / 50,000
nov. 15, 2008 - 15 59
hello, i'm from the elsewhere part of the state.
Can I still get in?
As of right now I have 33546
manteo, N.C.
66,132 / 50,000
nov. 15, 2008 - 16 08
I'd love to get in to this word war-- part of the 'elsewhere' group. I'm going to echo the above poster and ask, can I still get in?
50,094 / 50,000
nov. 15, 2008 - 23 24
Everyone is automatically in - all you have to do is keep writing and updating your word count!
As long as your home region is North Carolina - Elsewhere, your words will be counted!
Michelle
60,964 / 50,000
nov. 16, 2008 - 08 20
How often do they update the "who's winning" board?
31,899 / 50,000
nov. 16, 2008 - 10 30
If you go to http://ncwordwar-nanowrimo.vox.com/ there are word count widgets for each region.
Jess
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ML for Asheville, NC
The Road Trip of "Why?"
Current location: St. Louis, MO