What this is

This is very similar to the just-concluded 18k challenge, where 16 of you scraped and clawed and dug deep to write 18,000 words in just six days. The big differences here:

• you only have three days (November 28, 29, 30)
• if you win, you win a penguin! (the newest batch of the ones below came out very grey, but I am thinking of possibly painting them... just imagine: a gold penguin or a rainbow penguin or a blue penguin...)
  
  

Why do I want a penguin so badly???

Owls are cute but penguins with their little wobbly walk and their stubby wings--they look like they are searching for a home. One of them wants to come home with you...

How do I enter?

Just post in this thread! You will be automatically added to the graph (though I will need to manually provision you there afterwards).

Good luck, everyone! I just saw that we are tied with OCGR (aarrgh!) so we need your words!

Anyone who writes 20K in the final three days will win a special big-headed tyrannosaur (just thought of a very cute design!).

Good luck!

I'm still not done, so....

I'm obviously in since I'm impatient and asked about it.

FOR THE OWL!I mean, PENGUIN!

My hands have fallen off, but I suppose I can write write with my feet and with my tough. I still have limbs to abuse, so I shall write on, but, those Michigan people.... They're mean. They have some one that has written almost 300K. Uh, that person... We'll I hope they eat too much and go into food coma and they fall asleep until December 5, and that way they can't write these last few days.

Oh, oh, oh, what happened to my good thoughts, psychopath I tell you, I've turned into a psychopath.

I'm in! Wait - is it 9k a day? Or 9k in 3 days (3k a day). I think I know what you mean but I didn't see it put that way. My brain is mush. It was toast until I spilled some coffee...

scrapacat wrote:I'm in! Wait - is it 9k a day? Or 9k in 3 days (3k a day). I think I know what you mean but I didn't see it put that way. My brain is mush. It was toast until I spilled some coffee...

9k in three days (3k a day). But if you want to write 9k a day, I'll take it ;-)

Thanks,

--Tim

Heehee! I almost did that yesterday and I sprained my brain. Happy turkey day! *tosses confetti*

For the penguin!! My owl will need a pal.

Count me in! I need a push to finish this on time!

Cici

Didn't get the owl, but hey, penguins are awesome too. Especially to a Muppet fan like me. Trust me. Penguins are essential to the entire Muppet philosophy. I mean it. Essential. Besides, I'm not even at the halfway point yet. And... penguins are awesome. Did I mention the awesomeness of penguins yet? Because... yes.

I'm in.

I'm not sure that I have 9k of story or brain left, but that penguin is just so cute...

Count me in. I need around 12,500 to finish on time, anyway.

Okay, I think the cats in the apartment sensed I was serious, because I had vomiting and a bite in 5 min. I may have to give myself some time outs in a closed room to finish. Anyone of know of any music with subliminal music to calm cats?

Hey, how come this graph says I need to write 18k?

Anobi wrote:Hey, how come this graph says I need to write 18k?

Oops! My error.

Fixed!

Thanks for reporting that!

--Tim

You're welcome! Thanks for creating these graphs for us!

I almost wish I could sleep too, Mocho. lol. Looks like lifeatemymuse did go to sleep though, she hasn't written must since breaking 300k.

It ain't over until it's over.

Let the challenge begin!

Dave

Whoop Whoop! I got the 9k, now to finish this!!

Cici

DayonaAdrie wrote:I almost wish I could sleep too, Mocho. lol. Looks like lifeatemymuse did go to sleep though, she hasn't written must since breaking 300k.

DayonaAdrie, are you with the Michigan group??? Are you a robot???Because your word count is more than 450K. Um, you're a Robot right??? I'm competing with a robot... Not fair.... :) I'll ask the Space Aliens for help for the last day, hopefully they'll help me.

I am indeed a proud member of OCGR, and haha I can assure you that I'm not. I know some folks who are close to or have already broken 1.5m this year. Honestly I'm a member with them because in my original region (one of those ones in my state, Louisiana) I was accused of cheating to the point that I had a falling out with them. OCGR's a great group of folks, and from what I can see so is Naperville. I've quite well enjoyed this regional word war, and without it I would have never sat down and wrote both a second and third book for this NaNoWriMo.

Congratulations to mochomito, callalily05 and scrapacat for achieving their penguins so far! Good luck to everyone else--your penguin is within reach! Anyone going for the tyrannosaur?

Last updated: Sunday, 30-Nov-2014 08:45:09 PST

#	Name	Words	Reaction
1	mochomito	214473	185%	197783	206783	16690	qualified + 7690 words!
2	callalily05	46696	147%	33453	42453	13243	qualified + 4243 words!
3	scrapacat	46295	118%	35639	44639	10656	qualified + 1656 words!
4	thegrinch	45553	88%	37572	46572	7981	1019 words yet to write
5	TRRDEDEAN	94547	85%	86865	95865	7682	1318 words yet to write
6	Anobi	65871	83%	58362	67362	7509	1491 words yet to write
7	KatherineWriting	96700	68%	90512	99512	6188	2812 words yet to write
8	IAmChristinaG	49561	66%	43552	52552	6009	2991 words yet to write
9	tregina12000	57021	64%	51261	60261	5760	3240 words yet to write
10	PBJ63010	53356	48%	49005	58005	4351	4649 words yet to write
11	NewMexicoKid	51771	20%	49889	58889	1882	7118 words yet to write
12	TogetherAgain	22360	10%	21380	30380	980	8020 words yet to write

DayonaAdrie wrote:I am indeed a proud member of OCGR, and haha I can assure you that I'm not. I know some folks who are close to or have already broken 1.5m this year. Honestly I'm a member with them because in my original region (one of those ones in my state, Louisiana) I was accused of cheating to the point that I had a falling out with them. OCGR's a great group of folks, and from what I can see so is Naperville. I've quite well enjoyed this regional word war, and without it I would have never sat down and wrote both a second and third book for this NaNoWriMo.

Glad you found a group you like. I love the Naperville group. I moved further away from them, but, they are so active during the year that it's worth it for a wanna bee professional writer like myself. Yeah, I've seen the million words people on the Facebook groups. The Facebook people seem very nice as well.

Phew, that was close. My laptop froze before I could save my next to last set of words. I almost lost about 600 words, but the document was recovered.

The penguin is mine! bwahahahaha

ahem

By the skin of my teeth! Thanks for that final WW Tim. You are amazing. I know you didn't need to do that tonight so I really appreciate your help with that final push.

So I made the rest of the penguins and the two tyrannosaurs:

They are adorable! I'm so glad I get to take one home!