NaNoWriMo 2010 - Day 29

[ladyseishou]

Day 29 - 1 day remaining

In 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!

Comments

Finished!

[kallistixf]

Around 10:15 p.m. tonight, we were starting to think about maybe going to sleep, but my writing partner and I were both on a roll so we decided to power through. w00t! i wound up at 75,406 ... and am now ready for bed.

Thanks ladysheishou and everybody else here for all the support, advice, and cheerleading over the last month!

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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!

[ladyseishou]

Wow, that's great news! Now I suspect you should sleep for a day or two. You deserve it! And thank you for all your wonderful excerpts - very fun to read as well - as all your encouraging posts! It was a great month thanks in a big way to your participation!