This is a thread for everyone who took me up on my instructions/suggestions/orders to do a 15 minute word war while in the middle of reading my epically long pep-talk.
If you didn't get it in email, you can read it over at
and there is also a link to Write or Die that I mentioned in the email.
So for everyone who took me up on the mid-email 15 minute word war, post your word war total, lets quickly celebrate, and then go and do another 15 minute word war chunk.
Oh, and see up there in the top of the page by that big yellow update button? Go ahead and type in your new total and hit update :-)
Total number of NaNoLantans who have participated and emailed me that word war total: 25
Total number of words written by those who participated and have emailed me their total: 13,382
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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
50,295 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 07 14
800 words in fifteen minutes!!
38,235 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 10 12
725!!!!
i did it at my desk at work too. finally got around to reading the email and said, what the heck. so i took a little break and wrote for 15!!
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jeherv
nanowrmo 08 - Minority
nanowrimo 09 - Odds
1,803 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 10 25
245 words in fifteen minutes woohoo!!. especially since I have been falling behind and at the rate I'm going I will be caught up by tomorrow.
42,329 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 10 52
308 words! Though it was a slow 300. I know I can do more.
----------"You never know when it's coming, and when it does, you're never ready"
--Me, on Misfortune
NaNo History
2006: Student - I don't remember how many words
2007: Alan/Valentine: 8.6k. Failure to the max.
2009: Sam Knox - In progress
45,166 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 11 17
500 words here!
I could have definitely done more if it wasn't a dialog heavy section. Quotation marks suck up a lot of typing time.
24,635 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 11 22
I got 658 words! I'm definitely going to keep doing it. It was quite helpful!
35,447 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 12 34
403 for me! Going to do it again in a little while. Today has been a difficult writing day for me. Haven't been motivated, so this was a good thing to get me going!
35,384 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 13 23
Well, I used Write or Die, but I didn't notice when the timer got to 15 minutes! I got 852 words in 22 minutes, which was enough to catch me up to where I need to be fore today. Definitely gonna do another print after classes!
----------"Life is not about finding your limitations, it's about finding our infinity." -Herbie Hancock
2008 - Fur (4k, epic failed)
2009 - The Travel Book of Aida Burroughs (Actually not failing yet!)
38,074 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 16 26
541 in the email word war .... and i'm about to start writing again ..... (12 hours later)
45,110 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 17 06
706 words in 15 minutes. I was at a write in, surrounded by distractions, though.
Still at a write-in, but with fewer people, so I'm about to go for it again.
----------Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes.
2007: Roommates (Won!)
2008: Love on Location (Won!)
2009: Crushing the Competition (We'll See!)
28,569 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 17 18
From 4:40 to 4:55 I wrote 384 words, which is amazing for me...at that rate it's a whole day's worth of writing in 65 minutes!
38,011 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 19 17
1006.
Totally winged it beyond belief. xD
7,953 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 19 20
253 in 15 min.
That's like a quarter of what I did last night in 3 hours O.o I think when I get paid this week I might spring for the desktop version of Write or Die. It's kinda awesome.
----------Leesa (Blog)
NE Perimeter, Atlanta, GA
Goal: 50k | Novel: Parthia Answered | Genre: Fantasy
1,818 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 23 24
479! THANK YOU! You broke my writer's block.
6,262 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 09 41
966!
I just got the email from a friend yesterday, hopefully I'll be getting them for now on.
I officially love write or die. luckily, this time i didn't have any punishments. Hopefully I can continue on that streak
----------NaNo2006 - Heir Apparent (67k words) WON!!!!
NaNo2007 - 50072 (Will Name Soon) WON!!!!
NaNo2008 - Real life killed me...epic failure (9k words maybe?)
NaNo2009 - Untitled (good luck? on track so far)