let the trash talking begin:
so, how far did you get? did ya even stay up til midnight? huh? huh? did ya? i bet you didn't. i bet i'll be ahead of you before 3am eastern standard time. :-)
----------
"drench yourself in words unspoken
live your life with arms wide open
today is where your book begins
the rest is still unwritten"
-"unwritten" by natasha bedingfield
write hard!
78,301 / 50,000
Okt 31, 2009 - 21 28
ok Cornbread, let the games begin. Did make the midnight start and still going at 1:30 am (eat my dust); hope you don't plan on trailing the entire month (and no you can't use the time difference as an excuse).
:)
Sis is in dream land but will be updating later today.
----------2005 - Broken Smile
2006 - Riverdale
2007 - Riverdale: The Return
2008 - In a Lonely Place
2009 - Zombiepocalypse at Riverside
60,000 / 50,000
Okt 31, 2009 - 21 36
:)
Sis is in dream land but will be updating later today.
excuse?!? hah! as if i couldn't kick your word count's metaphorical backside while typing with my toes!
just don't forget to update your word count before you tottle off to bed, gramps!
(i love november so very very much)!
----------"drench yourself in words unspoken
live your life with arms wide open
today is where your book begins
the rest is still unwritten"
-"unwritten" by natasha bedingfield
write hard!
78,301 / 50,000
Okt 31, 2009 - 22 55
Got your work cut out for you for day 1 - calling it a night at 1570 but will be going to the writein today so that number will rise yet again.
Get to work child.
Your long distance nemesis.
----------2005 - Broken Smile
2006 - Riverdale
2007 - Riverdale: The Return
2008 - In a Lonely Place
2009 - Zombiepocalypse at Riverside
60,000 / 50,000
Okt 31, 2009 - 23 08
Get to work child.
Your long distance nemesis.
thanks for the chuckle, gramps! :-)
man, this is gonna be so much fun, cos this year i don't have to worry about ducking!
----------"drench yourself in words unspoken
live your life with arms wide open
today is where your book begins
the rest is still unwritten"
-"unwritten" by natasha bedingfield
write hard!
78,301 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 05 43
Ha, woke up officially at 7 am (thank you daylight savings). Only got five hours of sleep because my MC kept talking to me thoughout the night. Had to get up and have him spit it out otherwise i wouldn't get anything done today. Broke the 3k mark and its still not 9 am yet here on the east coast.
You may need to loosen up those toes, looks like you may need them. And what do you mean no ducking, i'm sending a virtual mug in your direction, look out!!
----------2005 - Broken Smile
2006 - Riverdale
2007 - Riverdale: The Return
2008 - In a Lonely Place
2009 - Zombiepocalypse at Riverside
60,000 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 08 59
You may need to loosen up those toes, looks like you may need them. And what do you mean no ducking, i'm sending a virtual mug in your direction, look out!!
yawn. i'm going to go work on a mid-term, cook lunch for the week, do my statistics homework, and then start nanoing. and you know what? i'll still beat your word count for the day.
as for your virtual mug: my FIREWALL OF DOOM will shatter it into its bits. hope you're backing up your novel, baybee!!!!
while i dearly miss write-ins and seeing my NYC Nano-peeps in the flesh, i highly recommend long distance nemesii! tis fun!
cornbread
----------"drench yourself in words unspoken
live your life with arms wide open
today is where your book begins
the rest is still unwritten"
-"unwritten" by natasha bedingfield
write hard!
60,000 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 22 17
hmm, mel's word count is ahead of mine. this shall be remedied on the morrow. a scientist briefing the military has got to be good for some words.
so, rest your weary fingers tonight, grandpa, and rest them well! =)
and, purpleaquarius, what are you waiting for: an engraved invitation? get with the writing! we're like, morally obligated to kick mel's word count butt!
(and then i shall crush your word count beneath mine like a car compacter crushes a car, but you'll still have the satisfaction of knowing that you beat you brother!)
cornbread: talking trash from potatoland.
----------"drench yourself in words unspoken
live your life with arms wide open
today is where your book begins
the rest is still unwritten"
-"unwritten" by natasha bedingfield
write hard!
78,301 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 05 29
Hello potatoe land - i like them mashed.
Your fire wall of doom did little to stop my virtual mug. Went to the Queens write-in last night and restocked with more objects of doom to send your way. Just ordered a small army of killer plot bunnies west - they should be reaching you by the time you complete this post.
WTF, a scientist briefing the military, are you reading over my shoulder. I had that scene in chapter two. *scanning computer for lurking viruses now*
On tap for the manhattan write in tonight so hope you are eating your wheaties this morning.
Sis is pacing herself, she's going to pick up the slack for me mid-month, think of it as a virtual tag-team steel cage match.
We're going to pin you to the mat.
What's that i hear, "One ..... Two ..."
----------2005 - Broken Smile
2006 - Riverdale
2007 - Riverdale: The Return
2008 - In a Lonely Place
2009 - Zombiepocalypse at Riverside
60,000 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 23 15
mel is silly. amusing, but silly:
Your fire wall of doom did little to stop my virtual mug. Went to the Queens write-in last night and restocked with more objects of doom to send your way. Just ordered a small army of killer plot bunnies west - they should be reaching you by the time you complete this post.
WTF, a scientist briefing the military, are you reading over my shoulder. I had that scene in chapter two. *scanning computer for lurking viruses now*
On tap for the manhattan write in tonight so hope you are eating your wheaties this morning.
Sis is pacing herself, she's going to pick up the slack for me mid-month, think of it as a virtual tag-team steel cage match.
We're going to pin you to the mat.
What's that i hear, "One ..... Two ..."
you mean you like your face mashed, by my word count baybee!
my rabid badger army ate your killer plot bunnies as a breakfast appetizer, as they were too little to be considered a proper meal on their own!
as for computer viruses, you DO know what i'm studying right? 'nuff said.
i have no need for wheaties against your paltry efforts. you forget: i know how you run out of plot ideas at the start of the second week. so when i'm just getting revved up, you'll be a few quarts low and looking for succor, SUCKER! =)
the only cages that will be necessary will be the one that i hang your word count in as a reminder to you for next november.
and remember: the light that you see at the end of the tunnel...
is the headlight of the train that my word count is using to crush yours into the bowels of defeat.
come on, mel, i need a challenge.
cornbread
----------"drench yourself in words unspoken
live your life with arms wide open
today is where your book begins
the rest is still unwritten"
-"unwritten" by natasha bedingfield
write hard!
78,301 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 03 28
Aahh, you are indeed proving to be a worthy opponent - you saw my 14 and raised it to 15.
However you have a made a fatal mistake, lurking in the shadows, working your blind side is my sis coming up behind you with a metal folding chair.
Bam!
That should silence you long enough for us to drag you to the center of the ring and pin you.
BTW those plot bunnies were just wave one of our endless nano army. Hope you enjoyed the snack. Up next, our flying monkeys.
Go my monkeys, go - and bring me back those ruby slippers.
----------2005 - Broken Smile
2006 - Riverdale
2007 - Riverdale: The Return
2008 - In a Lonely Place
2009 - Zombiepocalypse at Riverside
75,578 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 06 25
Yo! All you other NaNo peeps - I just want to point out this thread....
THIS is how nemesising is done, people! Collectively over 30,000 words between the two of them in 3 days. Booyah!
Don't have a nemesis yet? GET ONE!
----------And then call her "whipping girl" until she catches upLivvy, but you can call me Weebles
Manhattan co-ML
NaNoWrimo Haiku: 30 days of noveling, 17 syllables at a time
60,000 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 08 29
However you have a made a fatal mistake, lurking in the shadows, working your blind side is my sis coming up behind you with a metal folding chair.
Bam!
That should silence you long enough for us to drag you to the center of the ring and pin you.
BTW those plot bunnies were just wave one of our endless nano army. Hope you enjoyed the snack. Up next, our flying monkeys.
Go my monkeys, go - and bring me back those ruby slippers.
and now your dastardly plot is clear: make me laugh so hard that i snort coffee all over my laptop and put me out of the running. thanks! thanks a lot! (not to mention i just had to explain to my professor why i almost snorted coffee everywhere!)
i'm gonna drop a 20 pound sack of potatoes on your sister. (the potato museum here gives you a free bag when you go.)
cornbread
----------"drench yourself in words unspoken
live your life with arms wide open
today is where your book begins
the rest is still unwritten"
-"unwritten" by natasha bedingfield
write hard!
78,301 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 09 33
nice retort, you now have me spitting my lunch on my keyboard. Potatoe museum, Really? Too easy a target.
Thanks for the heads up, will warn the sis, she makes a mean mashed potatoe and now must carry a potatoe peeler with her the rest of the month.
Will you be online this evening in the chat ? I'll probably be on around 7ish or so EST. What time zone is Idaho again (Potatoe standard time - right?).
Watch out tonight, have a large bag of left over 'ween chocolate loaded with caffiene - it will get very silly, very quickly this evening.
----------2005 - Broken Smile
2006 - Riverdale
2007 - Riverdale: The Return
2008 - In a Lonely Place
2009 - Zombiepocalypse at Riverside
37,952 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 10 35
You guys are killing me. I'm glad I'm not eating because I would've spit my lunch onto my keyboard!
And now I'm inspired to go write and try to catch up to you guys with your amazing word counts! Hmmm... (body count in zombocalypse novel goes up by one more).
----------- Clarice
http://embereye.tumblr.com
http://twitter.com/embereye
60,000 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 11 11
And now I'm inspired to go write and try to catch up to you guys with your amazing word counts! Hmmm... (body count in zombocalypse novel goes up by one more).
clarice, i can picture it now: this sunday night i'll be sitting at my desk, my fingertips worn to ribbons from all of the tpying i've done this week, so i'll have the keyboard covered with plastic wrap and i'll still be typing, all the while thinking, 'must surpass mel's word count. then i can go to the ER.'
and i'll do it. because mel and mel are going to lose. think about it: what distractions do i have here besides homework? =)
cornbread
----------"drench yourself in words unspoken
live your life with arms wide open
today is where your book begins
the rest is still unwritten"
-"unwritten" by natasha bedingfield
write hard!
45,654 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 11 34
Another comment from the peanut gallery: can y'all end each message (or start) with your current wordcount as of writing the post? I'd like to watch the numbers rise as the vitriol flows...
----------Not the sharpest clown in the happy meal.
60,000 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 11 46
vitriol? my 16,008 words and i have no vitriol to sprout, merely the truth flows from these fingertips babe!
cornbread
----------"drench yourself in words unspoken
live your life with arms wide open
today is where your book begins
the rest is still unwritten"
-"unwritten" by natasha bedingfield
write hard!
37,952 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 12 09
cornbread
Pssht. Homework?! You can do that while you sleep. Or in December. ;)
(for any high school/college peeps reading this, don't try this at home. cornbread is a trained professional. professional what? not sure, we're still figuring it out.)
----------- Clarice
http://embereye.tumblr.com
http://twitter.com/embereye
45,654 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 13 23
cornbread
Pssht. Homework?! You can do that while you sleep. Or in December. ;)
(for any high school/college peeps reading this, don't try this at home. cornbread is a trained professional. professional what? not sure, we're still figuring it out.)
A professional at what? Clearly, it's trash-talking.
----------Not the sharpest clown in the happy meal.
54,155 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 16 58
Walker sibling #2 here large and in charge, yes Silea, Cornbread is clearly trash-talking, this year I've finally figured out this whole Nano thing.
Cornbread, My bro and I will definitely be tag teaming you.................don't even blink, you won't know what hit you........words my sister, that's what.
Did Mel tell you I won the wordsmith button at the kick off party...........and I'm coming for you, by mid november eat my dust (evil laugh)
----------P.A.
60,000 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 18 19
i have just two words for the two mels:
bring it!
cornbread (who fully expects to be eating those two words, come december 1, but will be a champion trash talker until then. and after then, let's not kid, we all know how i roll: downhill, with potatoes!)
----------"drench yourself in words unspoken
live your life with arms wide open
today is where your book begins
the rest is still unwritten"
-"unwritten" by natasha bedingfield
write hard!
108,882 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 00 49
I don't know who the Walker Siblings or Cornbread are, but I love you for making me laugh so hard. Keep it up and good-luck! :) Huh? Huh?
----------Orangetunawriter
78,301 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 03 54
CB,
Your wily ways are working. Gramps here.
Nice to see you on the chat last night - and yes all ten of my fingers are still operational. Damn Yankees, took away from my word count and now you have opened up a nice little lead. (Congrats on passing 20k - still right behind you at 18k).
Now that this damn distracting baseball thing is out of the way look out. Sis has my back and a ninety minute bus commute. She just changed the battery in her Alpha smart and will be ignoring those annoying whiny senior citizens (excuse me miss but do you mind if my seeing eye dog and i sit).
Best thing is she is a New york through and through. Pregnant lady asked for her seat yesterday while she was typing, her response, "wish i could but i'm noveling for two here."
With that much evil on my side you are going down.
All those nice people in Idaho will wear on you as the month goes on. Soon you will be smiling back at them, waving and find yourself on the porch for hours (non noveling hours) watching bugs zap them selves.
When your bug zapping count surpasses your wod count you will realize the flaw in your strategy - but too late.
* insert evil laugh here *
onto day 5
----------2005 - Broken Smile
2006 - Riverdale
2007 - Riverdale: The Return
2008 - In a Lonely Place
2009 - Zombiepocalypse at Riverside
54,155 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 11 23
Holy cow, Batman!!!
CB and Bro,
Just received great news, my boss will be out of the office next week and even better, we are off for veterans day, hello!!!! CB I will bet you your potatoe farm that I will enhance my verbiage by 20K by the end of next week............look out world, tag team in effect.
Mash potatoe soup will be the meal of the day for weeks to come!! (monster mash playing in the background)
----------P.A.
60,000 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 16 31
CB and Bro,
Just received great news, my boss will be out of the office next week and even better, we are off for veterans day, hello!!!! CB I will bet you your potatoe farm that I will enhance my verbiage by 20K by the end of next week............look out world, tag team in effect.
Mash potatoe soup will be the meal of the day for weeks to come!! (monster mash playing in the background)
for the record: i never agreed to a combined word count duel. that way lies madness. i'm not going to jeopardize my school work just to beat your puny word counts. don't make me do a NaNoWriDay just to put you in your place.
cornbread
----------"drench yourself in words unspoken
live your life with arms wide open
today is where your book begins
the rest is still unwritten"
-"unwritten" by natasha bedingfield
write hard!
78,301 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 20 19
I'm in the mood for some home fries.
CB you sound a little worried there. Sis has V-day off next week and is so totally in the game.
No stupid baseball to distract tonight so i've been able to get back on pace with you (20,940 to your 20,033). Sis is coming up behind you with 6K and coming on strong.
Don't want to hear any excuses about school work, take my sis' approach, she sent her boss home for a week. Now that's a nano move that even Chris Baty would approve. You do realize that her alpha smart has an instant on feature, she can sneak in a ten minute word spirit virtually anywhere, even in a meeting in the office, silly people think she's taking meeting notes.
Me, i don't have that option any longer, not after yelling in a data migration meeting with twelve people "Die Cliff Brooks, die!" - they kinda figured out i wasn't typing meeting notes.
Hope you have your typing shoes ready, the weekend is coming.
----------2005 - Broken Smile
2006 - Riverdale
2007 - Riverdale: The Return
2008 - In a Lonely Place
2009 - Zombiepocalypse at Riverside
60,000 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 03 10
hmm, changing the agreement after the contest has started is a sure sign that you're afraid of losing.
i must admit, i expected better of you. hike up your big boy pants and get back to the keyboard, walker!
cornbread (and, if i *must* deal with insomnia this month, by george i'm going to put it to good use!)
----------"drench yourself in words unspoken
live your life with arms wide open
today is where your book begins
the rest is still unwritten"
-"unwritten" by natasha bedingfield
write hard!
78,301 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 03 12
Orange,
Cornbread is our nemesis. Our evil, long distant arch-enemy egging us onto the Nano finish line. She's a NY transplant who is attempting to retain her evil ny personality in the potatoe fields of Idaho.
We, for our part, are helping her retain her evil nature (its a ny thing).
BTW - awesome word count (43k), feel free to chime in and keep us all marching forward. Given your pace (200k plus), if you are in need of a nemesis - do a search for JayBizz - another NYer. She is in search for a 150k nemesis.
happy writing.
----------2005 - Broken Smile
2006 - Riverdale
2007 - Riverdale: The Return
2008 - In a Lonely Place
2009 - Zombiepocalypse at Riverside
54,155 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 04 41
Yo Bro,
Is CB really a transplant or is she just transparent? CB I will concede and admit that "Ms. Potatoe Head" may have a point. Okay no tag team, although it looks like I may be off too a slow start remember the turtle did win!!
By months end both the Mels will cross the finish line with you so transparent and far behind, we all will say, "Cornbread, who?"
BTW, CB thanks for the egging on, oops, forgot you were a potatoe head and not a chicken.
----------P.A.
60,000 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 05 15
Is CB really a transplant or is she just transparent? CB I will concede and admit that "Ms. Potatoe Head" may have a point. Okay no tag team, although it looks like I may be off too a slow start remember the turtle did win!!
By months end both the Mels will cross the finish line with you so transparent and far behind, we all will say, "Cornbread, who?"
BTW, CB thanks for the egging on, oops, forgot you were a potatoe head and not a chicken.
PA, i'm so so afraid now that i'm going to be left behind by both of the mels. i'm actually shaking in my boots. no, wait, that shaking is caused by laughing hard at you and your brother. what can i say, writing 5k before breakfast put me in a good mood. you may make it to the finish line, but you'll do so days after me babe. days. you'll be so far behind me that you won't have to eat my dust because it will have finished settling before you make it that far. the turtle beat the hare, it's true, but the jaguar ate 'em both as a snack and went out hunting for more.
so, mr. mel, i see your 20,940 and raise to 25, 083. and, since this is day 6, i will finish out my day with at least 30k, can you say the same? =)
cornbread
----------"drench yourself in words unspoken
live your life with arms wide open
today is where your book begins
the rest is still unwritten"
-"unwritten" by natasha bedingfield
write hard!