Howdy NaNoLanta-
We have declared war on Denver, in the friendly competition sort of way.
Last year, there were one spot above us in the final word count.
We were 19th with 10,950,215 words, and they were 18th with 11,107,174 words.
Last year we donated 1,265.00 and ranked 21st for donations, and they ranked 12th with 1,950.00 donated.
We can totally beat them...in both areas.
So, throughout this year's NaNoWriMo, we will be battling Denver over which mountains of words reigns supreme - our Appalachians or their Rockies.
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Back for year #6, and MLing for the first time. Go NaNoLanta!
Co-Moderator of LitFic Genre Board
This year's Novel: "Just A Normal Thanksgiving."
Goal: 135k (9 chapters, 15k a pop)
Genre: LitFic
POV: Rotating First Person Stream of Consciousness
72,466 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 07 22
Our mountains will totally beat down your mole hills! Bring it!
:)
----------Tirjasdyn - Badger et al
Nanowrimo Denver Events and News
http://www.dennanos.org
My Stuff
http://michellejnorton.com
http://denverfictionwriters.com
(720) 837-2213
114,526 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 11 37
Only one will emerge victorious. Which side of the country will move mountains? Stay tuned for NaNoWriMo.
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222,463 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 14 56
We can totally beat Denver because our MLs are so awesome :D
----------Goal:
200k260k. My wordcount was going to be an average, but we need to beat the pants off Denver, right?Part of the evil triumvirate of Atlanta and Shoutouts moderator.
114,526 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 15 11
The rest of us are awesome too. With our awesomeness combined, we are NaNoWriMo Atlanta.
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222,463 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 15 13
Does this mean we get silly looking rings and a screeching monkey?
----------Goal:
200k260k. My wordcount was going to be an average, but we need to beat the pants off Denver, right?Part of the evil triumvirate of Atlanta and Shoutouts moderator.
114,526 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 15 40
But of course!
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54,196 / 50,000
oct. 4, 2009 - 19 26
There's also a team function in the sponsorship area. We could have a "Team Atlanta" and post about it on our blogs, or mention it to friends and family for donations.
----------Whitney
Kennesaw ML
Blog Here
50,259 / 50,000
oct. 5, 2009 - 23 44
I'm totally for beating Denver! >:D
----------2009 NaNoWriMo: Good Luck Priestess
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A fine is a tax for doing wrong, a tax is a fine for doing well.
18,672 / 50,000
oct. 7, 2009 - 04 13
We're beating them in donations so far...
Denver: $160
ATL: $195
18,672 / 50,000
oct. 8, 2009 - 10 42
Okay.. I gotta say it. It's been eating me up all day. I'm a little green with envy at the moment.
Denver has their own website.
Denver has a nifty Regional Events calendar built into their Regional View tab - with events and target word counts!
Denver has a write-a-thon, kinda like the Nanowrimo Night of Writing Dangerously.
*sniff* *sniff*
At least we're still beating them on donations.
41,722 / 50,000
oct. 8, 2009 - 10 56
I do have an unlimited reseller account with my hosting company, so I can fix that first one, and the calender part as well. :) Give me the weekend, and I can probably have something set up.
Which do y'all prefer? nanoatlanta.org or nanowrimoatl.org?
----------Amber
www.gipsysmusings.com/nano
136,706 / 50,000
oct. 8, 2009 - 10 59
Heya:
Tia (another ML) and me have been talking over plans for a website - website name nanolanta.org . Tia's got a hosting thing as well, so let me check with her about it before you go and do one too :-D We can't use "nanowrimo" in the title for copywright reasons, but we can use nano or wrimo. But I like the NaNoLanta name :-D
We will have the nifty google calendar thing up as soon as we get events finalized - we need the events to put on the calendar before having the calendar :-) The Calendar widgit thing is connected automatically to google calendars - we the MLs just have to get the google calendar up and running. I promise we're working on it :-D
----------Back for year #6, and MLing for the first time. Go NaNoLanta!
Co-Moderator of LitFic Genre Board
This year's Novel: "Just A Normal Thanksgiving."
Goal: 135k (9 chapters, 15k a pop)
Genre: LitFic
POV: Rotating First Person Stream of Consciousness
41,722 / 50,000
oct. 8, 2009 - 11 03
Very cool :) Let me know if you need any design/development.
----------Amber
www.gipsysmusings.com/nano
104,215 / 50,000
oct. 8, 2009 - 12 29
Oooh! I can help with design too! If you need any more help. :D
And I would so volunteer to help set up Atlanta's own Night of Writing Dangerously, and any design work that was needed for that too. I just lack any sort of...well, money. Boo.
18,672 / 50,000
oct. 8, 2009 - 12 55
Whoo-hoo!
While I was thinking about it today, I reactivated the old NaNoWriMoATL chatroom and did some updates to it. I know in years past people liked having a chatroom for online write-ins so it's there if anyone wants to use it.
136,706 / 50,000
oct. 8, 2009 - 14 10
I am so excited so many of us are excited all about the same ideas! Celestial - another ML out there has some chat hosting thing. I asked for a room for atlanta this year - when we get it, lets take a look to see which has better features (I don't know which one does) because I am all for having a chatroom again this year.
Design crew - if you're interested in helping with the webpage design, or other design-realted things, shoot me a private message with your email addy and let's get talking!
----------Back for year #6, and MLing for the first time. Go NaNoLanta!
Co-Moderator of LitFic Genre Board
This year's Novel: "Just A Normal Thanksgiving."
Goal: 135k (9 chapters, 15k a pop)
Genre: LitFic
POV: Rotating First Person Stream of Consciousness
18,672 / 50,000
oct. 8, 2009 - 14 20
Coolio. Just let me know what you want to do.
222,463 / 50,000
oct. 8, 2009 - 17 50
I have a host with plenty of space I'm not using, so I already volunteered to handle the web aspect....the issue is coming up with lots of good content. What all should we put on there? I'd really like it to be more than a blog, some links, and the google calendar (note to self: see if it's embeddable.) As well, if anyone has any preferences for color schemes or any free use/your own images you might like to see used in design or just posted, throw them at me. (For those that don't know, I run JanNoWriMo, so that's the sort of thing I design and would like to put together, with content like the icons, the pep talk archives, the on-site word counter, etc.)
----------Goal:
200k260k. My wordcount was going to be an average, but we need to beat the pants off Denver, right?Part of the evil triumvirate of Atlanta and Shoutouts moderator.
136,706 / 50,000
oct. 17, 2009 - 11 19
Denver's beating us in the donation race by about 200 dollars so far! Lets get donating people!! NaNo can't run this site, and we wouldn't have met or head about NaNo, without the donations of those before us.
----------Back for year #6, and MLing for the first time. Go NaNoLanta!
Co-Moderator of LitFic Genre Board
This year's Novel: "Just A Normal Thanksgiving."
Goal: 135k (9 chapters, 15k a pop)
Genre: LitFic
POV: Rotating First Person Stream of Consciousness
24,489 / 50,000
oct. 18, 2009 - 10 02
Oh no! -flail- I'm from Denver and I moved to Atlanta this year.
... My loyalties are split!
[As much as I support Denver, I do believe I will be donating my word count to Atlanta. However, that does not mean I'm not rooting for my beautiful Rockies!]
104,215 / 50,000
oct. 23, 2009 - 11 36
We're trailing by $220 in donations as of October 23rd
Are we all waiting on paychecks (like myself) before donating? What can we do to catch up guys?
781 / 50,000
oct. 23, 2009 - 12 18
I personally am waiting for more of my books, Murder On The Silver Comet Trail to sell so I will actually have something to donate! It is fiction, written 2 years before the murder, and published 2 years after the murder. It won NaNo in 2004. I posted about Murder On The Silver Comet Trail on a few sites today, including a music site.
----------Charlottefairchild@gmail.com
http://www.fearthounot4.blogspot.com
1,096 / 50,000
oct. 30, 2009 - 06 28
I work in real estate and we almost sold the Shops at Silver Comet which is located at the mouth of the silver comet trail. Was the murder perhaps in the drive thru starbucks which vacated and destroyed any possibility of a sale???? hee hee. Would love to read your book once it comes out!
----------The Trace-Meister Cometh
104,215 / 50,000
oct. 30, 2009 - 06 59
Oh no worries, I understand that some people are waiting for different reasons. I'm also waiting because I usually donate out of my change jar, which currently stands at $22.69 - I'm hoping I can get it to $45, because I do get a lot of change from serving tables, etc.
9,609 / 50,000
nov. 1, 2009 - 20 37
Denver shall prevail!!!
Hello Atlanta! I noticed that no one had commented on this thread in two days, and decided to remedy the situation. I was just stopping by to say I hope you all had a happy first day of noveling, and I hope you are having fun now, because you might not have as much fun at the end of the month when we have beaten you. (Dare I say "into submission?!?!?!?!")
Love,
kaitimae - a friendly (no, really, I am!) competitor from DENVER aka the best of all cities in the land.
Really though, best of luck this month. I think it will help both of our regions to have a lively competition to spur our word counts and donations onward and upward. Come by and say hi!
40,128 / 50,000
nov. 1, 2009 - 21 07
Being from Denver origionaly my loyalties should be torn but as I live here in Atlanta Im for the peach all the way. so I did a quick tally sofar
as of 11:59 pm
Donations : Denver is in the lead
1025.00 Denver
740.00 Atlanta
Word Count: Atlanta All the Way!!!!
544,449 Denver
734,306 Atlanta
Just because they have dipped into the payday loans out there in Denver for the donations dont mean We in atlanta will Bow to them. Beware the word count for it is always truly about the Word count.!!!!
----------Passion, Drive, and Desire are the keys to the Pleasure of imagination. it is fundamental that in your dreams for the future you never loose sight of the goals and structure of reality.
136,706 / 50,000
nov. 1, 2009 - 21 08
*grin*
We were all too busy today writing to post on here :-D
You know, there's a Rocky Mountain Pizza Company here in Atlanta...maybe that's where we should have our victory party....
----------Back for year #6, and MLing for the first time. Go NaNoLanta!
Co-Moderator of LitFic Genre Board
This year's Novel: "Just A Normal Thanksgiving."
Goal: 135k (9 chapters, 15k a pop)
Genre: LitFic
POV: Rotating First Person Stream of Consciousness
136,706 / 50,000
nov. 1, 2009 - 21 27
Digging a little deeper into the current stats,
Our average word count per WriMo reporting a wordcount is slightly higher - 2,567 vs. 2,441 for them. That means our 200k difference comes down to the number of people - hitting up a little math, we've got around 80 more people reporting a word count than they do. And that makes me happy to no end.
Great job guys! Let's keep the momentum rolling...right over Denver :-D
----------Back for year #6, and MLing for the first time. Go NaNoLanta!
Co-Moderator of LitFic Genre Board
This year's Novel: "Just A Normal Thanksgiving."
Goal: 135k (9 chapters, 15k a pop)
Genre: LitFic
POV: Rotating First Person Stream of Consciousness
50,680 / 50,000
nov. 2, 2009 - 10 25
Mwahaha. I like war. And I hate the Rockies (the baseball team, that is) so this is perfect.
----------Word count: 50,680 (WON!!!)
Coffee consumed: (approx) 31 cups
Late-night idea bursts: 9
Sanity level remaining: 0.392%
Times wrists have had to be iced: 6
Days remaining in NaNo: 6
114,526 / 50,000
nov. 2, 2009 - 19 45
As if Denver beating us in donations isn't bad enough, you know who else is beating us?
Augusta.
That's right. Augusta, Georgia is currently (as I'm writing this) tied with Denver. Each region has donated $1025, while Atlanta has donated $765.
We can't let another Georgia region beat us, can we?
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