Hello Cache!

Just checking in. Hello everyone.

I'm in Brigham, but Brigham is close enough, right? :P

*Kitty*
The fourteen-year-old girl nobody takes seriously...

Ha, finally found it.

Hello!

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Is that you Cache Valley? I think Jim Bridger found you easier than I did. Are you hooked up to an all Utah thing as well as your local? I’ve been blundering around in Ogden and Salt Lake for some time reading about them kicking each other’s back sides. I found it confusing, but then, I’ve sort of always found both Ogden and Salt Lake confusing.

I’ve signed up over here just for fun. My home region is Oregon, but I grew up in Logan and have a very useful drawer full of very lovely degrees from Utah State. My Daddy was a professor at USU for sixty years and I started my career teaching there as well.

My name is Edwĭna Peterson Cross - Occasionally AKA Winnie. I’m a proud, successful research product of the Edith Bowen Laboratory School and graduated from Logan High just after the dinosaurs left the valley lumbering toward Vernal. I actually think I ‘went out’ with Jim Bridger in Junior High, certainly I ‘went out’ with everyone else. You know, that kind of “going out” where you don’t go anywhere?. Of course, it’s hard to remember specifics at my age. Besides, I’ve been diligently working to block those years from my memory ever since I escaped and the prison doors clanged shut behind me. *Eloquent~Shudder* Having narrowly survived Logan Junior High, I ran thankfully to the other side of town where I rather enjoyed myself for several years. From Logan High I climbed straight up the hill and started putting degrees in the drawer. Its an age old story and a well worn path. I understand the Junior High is now a Middle School and hopefully less terrorizing than it was during the late Mesolithic or Epipaleolithic ages.

I’m a multi-published poet and essayist, but have yet to manage to make my plethora of words behave themselves and become a novel. This is my third NaNoWriMo year. 2006-2007 are well on their way to being a Shakespearean based trilogy, heavily researched, with more research to come. The project just keeps turning into more books which is very likely not such a good thing. This year I am giving the Eternal Bard a break and writing a totally off the wall fantasy. I may even write some of it on the wall, when it comes right down to it.

What is this “Word War”? Something that you do on top of writing the 50,000 words for NaNoWriMo? Introducing competition to something specifically designed to be only self competitive? Welcome to Utah! Oh, those hard working, productive little worker bees in that beehive a-flapping on your flag! Fascinating! Of course, coming from a state represented by Ducks and Beavers, I guess I shouldn’t be talking about critters on flags and their metaphoric qualities.

I actually just dropped in to see - you know - what condition your condition was in. You are slower off the blocks than we are. We can’t start writing yet, but we are already having parties. In Oregon we call this ‘having your priorities in order.’

I miss Cache Valley, especially in the autumn. I’d like to sit on top of college hill, looking out at the Wellsvilles for several hours; a silent meditation in beauty. Are they covered with icing sugar yet? When there is fresh snow on the Wellsvilles, that view looks completely and utterly fake. I hope the air is still so clear that the light refracts as if it were hitting a cut gem. I hope it will always stay that way; so clear that the view will always look too absolutely stunning to be real.

Good Luck to all of you! May your Word Count rise like Grandma’s double-yeast Danish bread!

~ epc

To answer your questions:
Yes, we have another site that we are also using. http://www.utahwrimos.net/ if you're interested.
As to the Word War: every year all the people in Salt Lake area compete against the rest of Utah to see which group can come up with the most words. (I forget, come to think of it, whether that's total or per capita, but whatever.) So, yeah, we're dragging competition into the self-competitive event, but I've found that around week two you need all the motivation you can get. So, whatever works.

Well, nice to meet you. It's my first year at Utah State University, and I can see what you mean about the view from up here. No snow right now, though we did have a bit a couple of weeks ago.
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And the chaos begins...
Anytime now...

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Hello all! I'm a new student at USU, and I am a fifth year NaNoWriMo participant, hopefully I will also make this my fifth win. I hope I can contribute a decent amount of words, last year I managed to surpass the 100K mark before the end. I don't know if I will be so fortunate this year between school and work, but I will try my hardest.

"I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list?" -Sylvester Salone

"Having a bad day? Write faster. Broke a limb? Write faster." Me

Hello Cache Valley,

I'm a resident here :)
This is my first year of Nanowrimo and I'm excited. I just hope my brain doesn't explode! I've never attempted to write so vigorously but I'm not backing out yet. I'm just recovering from a concussion so writing is a HUGE strain on my head. So along with all of my ideas, I'll have a bottle of Tylenol on my desk.

Anyway, just wanted to say "Hi"
I didn't know that so many people like to write. I thought I was crazy and insane..........lol

Well GOOD LUCK everyone!!
-thevoiceinside

"Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself."

Hello Cache
This is my first NaNo and I'm just getting out of the Army and heading back to the valley. So far my story is terribly interesting but seems to be trying to melt my brain down to goo for use in road resurfacing. I personally doubt my brain is tar like enough for that, but I'm sure I will find out soon.

Just so you know none of this is my fault, my friend got me into it.

Michael