The "I'm Jealous of Your Higher Count Shoutout" Shoutout!

Totally. The people who were above 10,000 on the first day... dang.

I have a complex from having grown up always getting the best grades in my class in elementary school... in basically any area, if I'm not the best, I tend to feel like I failed.

Which is silly, of course, but it's how I feel.

I think I need therapy. (lol)

Or maybe just a strong shot of common sense. I can't be the best at everything in the world.

Nanowrimo 07-08 - Fail. Oops.
Nanowrimo 09 - Happy-Space

I kind of wish I was one of those people who could do 10k a day, so yes, definitely feeling the green eyed monster. XD

It was then that I realized life does suck more than a vacuum.

2009: The Miner's Canary

Hahaha, I'm envious of all of you other posters so far in this thread. Thanks to Write or Die, I'm about halfway to where I should be. I missed a couple days D:

I'm jealous of a lot of people on here especially kateness.

# of characters: 10
# of deaths: 59

Being an overachiever sucks! I went the opposite direction and became an underachiever. Now I'm trying to find a healthy middle. :)

Justice
Finished "The Blame Bearer"

Srsly, yo. I need to stop visiting this board.

But also, I'm jealous of where I was last time I did this. 20k+ a week, plus school. Argh.

I am jealous of all but one person on this thread. Grr.

Words: 33000
Cups of tea made: One.
Cups of tea subsequently spat out: One.
Cups of coffee made: One
Cups of coffee subsequently spat out: One.
Character killings: Two.
Words still available for use: One.
Dares taken: Four.
NaNoWriMo Ate My Soul.

Bahh! Everyone's written more than me and I missed the first day and I'm soooo behind!
I felt like I made some good progress today, then I made the mistake of comparing myself to others, which, in all other aspects of my life, I know better than to do.

"I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re gonna do. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it"

*sobs* I'm jealous of all of you, and whats with the people that already have 50K or over? Take the fun out of it now will ya! T-T

'09- The Dungeon-Pending

Yeah, it's kind of freaky, looking through the forums and seeing shoutouts about 25.000 words...
I'm not even dreaming about that yet.

Cups of Coffee/Tea/Red Bull Consumed: A felt 1000.
Nights without Sleep: 6
Days to go: 8
Pages written: 65
Sanity: 5/100 (Sanity? What sanity?)

I'm pretty much jealous of Kateness.

YES.
I know, this is my first NaNo and I'm not even a writer, but that SO does not matter. Y'all are just flying through this by day 4, and I'm not sure I'll even manage to finish. >_<

*shakes fist at people who can write*

Read my last line of the night on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MuninnHrafn

I'm mostly jealous of one of the writers in our region who banked out 20k the first day. Here I was hoping to steal all the thunder and she showed me up! ;)

I'm not jealous of Kateness because there is no possible way I will ever make 800k+. 200k this year is going to be the stopping point for me.

Goal: 200k 260k. 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.

I was so happy to have the highest wordcount out of the people registered to my region and then I checked people my age in my country and my :D face went to D: There was at least 5 people who were 10K over me.

And then I come on the forums and people like Kateness are sitting on 125K and my face changes to T.T

2007 : Out of This World, Into Another (55,585)
2008 : -
2009 : Ashlyn of Carcassonne (?)

I will admit I am a little jealous of all the shiny word count bars with tons and tons of blue but it's not like it's a race, in the traditional sense, by which I mean it's not meant to be a competition in which everyone is competing against each other, we are competing against our inner editor to churn out a complete novel. How much fun would November be if everyone reached 50k in the first week? It wouldn't be National Novel Writing MONTH.

Count me in for this one.

And seriously, I'm jealous of not only the people who have reached huge amounts of words already but those posting in this thread, even if you guys don't consider yourselves to be far enough.

I mean hey, at least you have more than 2000 words. :/

I'm insanely jealous of people with up to 15k or so more than me... anymore and I just accept that they're superhuman. XD

Moi? Jealous?

Maybe a little bit, but only of those who are just a little above me and closer to 50k. Those way above earn my astonishment.

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Everyone's jealous of kateness. She's just a novel-writing MACHINE. She churns out words like [insert clever analogy here].

And after thirty days and thirty nights slowly losing sanity in the dense and unchartable literary jungle of plot twists and discoveries, the novelist emerges triumphant!

...I hope.

Am I jealous of Kateness? Hell no... I think writing like that would take the fun out of NaNo, but that's just me. As it is I feel weird with 15k.

*looks thoughtfully up at Maplewing*

Yeah, I'm jealous. I want to be at 15k! Technically I'm ahead, but I want to get to 100k this year, and I can only write like 1k at most during weekends. Which means 5k every day during the week. (And my story has not gifted me with literary genius that will make the words fly.)

Looks like I'm going to be enjoying another late night on the computer. Grumblegrumblegrumble...

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- high fives -
I'm still in my two thousands as well. I think you're the first person I've seen that is around my word count. lol.
Thanks for not having time for Nano like me :D Make me feel a lot better about my story.

Haha, this is how I feel. 8D I'm jealous of a friend of mine, who I'm racing with, who has 5,000 more words than me. x_x

-Kate
i'm not broke but you can see the cracks
you can make me perfect again.

when i was all messed up and i heard opera in my head
your love was a lightbulb hanging over my head.

I know!
I know how you all feel.
I don't know where the hell I pulled 40k from but as soon as I start feeling proud green bars pop up around me!

I'm in a slightly informal competition with my cousins boyfriend.
At the last word count he was at 27k and now I'm at 40k, but he's not respond to my pestering about what his word count is right now, and he told me today at school that he plans on hitting 50 today, which I know I won't get done because my fingers are aching again and I need some sleep.
Damn sleep.

Good luck all!

NaNo 07: The Charlotte Project (50,000)
NaNo 08: The Days We Learned To Fly (75,000)
NaNo 09: Halfway to Nowhere (?!!?)

I'm jealous of a certain friend of mine >.> *eyes friend* who keeps "one-up"-ing me every time I update my wordcount.

You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.

I'm always jealous of anyone who has a higher word count than me. Maybe not the people who are like hitting 50K in the first two days because that just doesn't seem fun to me, though I'm sure it's fun to them. But whenever I procrastinate on here, and I see people at like 12K and 15K I go "Oh crud. I suck. I'll never catch up." That's probably not a good thing, is it?

Oh well, I'm just going to write what I can, and try to keep up with the daily word count goals.

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I am jealous of those who are beyond 20k already. Especially when they write in German, which has a longer average word length. Not of kateness though. At least this is what I try to convince myself of. :P

'8: Interface Culture - Selbst die Zukunft ist nicht mehr das was sie einmal war (won!)
'9: Ytin'he'ny - those who are changed

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Bags of crisps: 7 (705g)

Back up your novel, now!

As the old adage says "There will always be someone better". BUT, if I may say, I'm glad that there are a lot of 90k and 100k people out there. It makes me push myself harder. I, too, am one of those people who like to one up, haha. And I'm not even from the show me state! Good luck to everyone!

Me, jealous of other people's higher word counts? A bit. However, I'm now far ahead of where I usually am at this time of the month (usually 0 words in the first week), and everything's flowing smoothly at the rate of a chapter a day after my slow start on the 1st. So I don't feel like complaining. Even if I'm still a bit jealous of all those higher word counts. And especially Kateness. ;)

NaNo '06: Black Science
NaNo '07: Bad Company
NaNo '09: Dirty Pop
Project Blog: Spanner's World
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I'm not really that jealous. You have to remember that although the end goal is the same, in this contest by and large everyone makes up their own rules. If someone has a vastly larger word count than you, it could just be that your rules are stricter than theirs.

We all know that it's all about quantitly not quality around here, but some care more about quality than others. I don't allow myself to back and edit anything that I wrote before even to fix a misspelling, even if it was the last word I typed two seconds ago. However, I also never word pad. I don't intentionally write in a more flowery manner than the scene calls for just to get words. Those are empty words, in my opinion and I forbid myself from it. I also don't write nonsense stream of conscience narration or insert scenes which I know ahead of time really have no point and will be edited out in revision.

So someone who allows themselves more editing than I do yet works just as hard will have a lower word count than I do. Someone who allows themselves more word padding than I do yet works just as hard will have a higher word cound than I do. There's nothing to be jealous of, really, and the only thing to be proud of is winning the contest using whatever rule set you feel is best.