NaNoWriMo 2010 - Day 29
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nano_writersIn the long run, a people is known,
not by its statements or its statistics,
but by the stories it tells.
- Flannery O'Connor
So close to the end Nano Writer - today's word count is 48,333! Good luck to everyone still writing whether you're working hard to write several thousand words to reach the finish line or finishing up the last scenes for your story or even more bravely, writing on despite the long odds that you will have 50K words by the end of the month... you are all to be commended! You are true writers...
Because it is as Ms. O'Connor wisely said: in the long run, it won't be important how many people won or didn't win the NaNoWriMo challenge but rather it is the stories, the stories born of the challenge, written, completed, shared with others and if nothing else, serve as inspiration for future story tellers, these stories, that create our true legacy we have all won this November.
So write on! You can do it! Today's quote was submitted by Nano Writer
cheyinka - thanks very much for the timely inspiration!Excerpts? Comments? It's all good! Keep writing, Nano Writer!
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Date: 2010-11-29 07:19 am (UTC)...
YES! *strikes fist in the air*
From Thusday 'till today I managed to write a total account of 10.927 words. And for the first time I managed to write
a lotsome during the weekend! :-)Oh gosh... I can't believe I actually made it. With 2.000 words extra... *does happy little dance*
Congratualtions! Cheers!
Date: 2010-11-29 08:40 am (UTC)Well done! Such phenomenal progress deserves a standing ovation! *applause*applause* Well done!
Re: Congratualtions! Cheers!
Date: 2010-11-29 08:51 am (UTC)And thanks for the firework! XD I'm going to paste that picture everywhere! :-)
Finished!
Date: 2010-11-29 09:42 am (UTC)Thanks ladysheishou and everybody else here for all the support, advice, and cheerleading over the last month!
Pretty much everybody online thought g0ddesses.net had won. At first it looked like the voting came out that way too. The three women judges and moot all put us way ahead of our competitors, raving about "Ask the g0ddesses" and the marketing agreement with Trampssss and the deals with FaceSpace and MegaCorp. And since Hesperie was casting votes on behalf of Hades, Poseidon, and the secret squirrel, that would have seemed like it wrapped it up.
But somehow in all the excitement we had missed that Apollo had been added to the panel. He voted for his buddy Jason's company ladzzz.com, and Ajax and Kevin Johnson both went for Qu&aBabe$. After some discussion Ajax reminded us that moot's vote only counted for half a point because he was the youngest, the three women together only counted for 1/3 of a vote, and rather than transferring Poseidon, Hades, and the secret squirrel's vote they just wouldn't count them.
Which made the final score
Qu&aBabe$ 2.00
ladzzz.com 1.00
g0ddesses.com .63
So we had finished third. Oh well. But as Ajax rather condescendingly pointed out, it was a lot closer than anybody had expected, so that was something to be proud of.
We did kind of feel like we had been robbed, to be honest. But we were laughing too hard to be properly outraged.
Re: Finished!
Date: 2010-11-29 09:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-11-29 12:13 pm (UTC)50258 words
and a good start on my first ever novel!
Cheers! Congratulations!
Date: 2010-11-29 08:57 pm (UTC)You did it! Well done! And a very good start indeed. Well done!
Re: Cheers! Congratulations!
Date: 2010-11-29 09:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-11-29 04:50 pm (UTC)Congratualtions! Cheers!
Date: 2010-11-29 09:04 pm (UTC)In celebration of a worthy accomplishment! Well done! Good luck with your ficexchange!
Re: Congratualtions! Cheers!
Date: 2010-11-30 12:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-11-30 06:35 am (UTC)Oy vey.
If my first novel was the bright oldest child who suddenly hit a road bump at age 18 and languished around the house for the next three years doing nothing, and my second novel is the overachieving middle child who could do no wrong, this one is definitely the youngest, the "problem child".
On the other hand I should be able to wrap things up by tomorrow night, and the plot is where it should be.
Still though, I think I'm going to celebrate tomorrow night with a very large glass of hot chocolate and a long, long nap.
And then trying to replace they keys on my laptop keyboard which have broken this month. xD
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Date: 2010-11-30 06:40 am (UTC)Congratualtions!
Date: 2010-11-30 10:00 pm (UTC)Cheers! Here's to hot chocolate, new keyboard keys and November months with shiny endings! Well done!
Re: Congratualtions!
Date: 2010-12-05 05:21 am (UTC)I've just crawled out of my post-NaNo hole (hehe) and wanted to say thanks so much for all the hard work you do with this comm every year. I know it can't be an easy job, especially posting with encouragement and tips for all of us all through November, so seriously, thank you!
Even when I don't get to comment on all the posts, I definitely appreciate them :)
*sends you chocolate and shiny*
Re: Congratualtions!
Date: 2010-12-05 05:43 am (UTC)