# Gimme a Na! Gimme a No! Gimme a Wri! Gimme a Mo! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 28, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-a-na-gimme-a-no-gimme-a-wri-gimme-a-mo/424375 "2007-10-28T22:10:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-a-na-gimme-a-no-gimme-a-wri-gimme-a-mo/424375/181 "2007-11-26T00:50:29Z")
I won! I won! I won! I finished my NaNoWriMo! The official total: 50758 words. And now I don’t have to worry about going to Washington, DC on the 30th, because I am already done :D. I can’t believe it. This was a lot of fun. Good luck to all of you this week. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-a-na-gimme-a-no-gimme-a-wri-gimme-a-mo/424375/182 "2007-11-26T05:39:32Z")
Yay, Tamex! You rock. I, sadly, do not rock. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-a-na-gimme-a-no-gimme-a-wri-gimme-a-mo/424375/183 "2007-11-26T05:57:46Z")
[QUOTE=jsgoddess] Yay, Tamex! You rock. I, sadly, do not rock. [/QUOTE] Congrats, Tamex! Have you gone purple yet? jsgoddess, you will rock soon, I’m sure. Me, I made my 45k goal with a couple hundred words to spare. Now I’m thinking Wednesday for the word count win. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-a-na-gimme-a-no-gimme-a-wri-gimme-a-mo/424375/184 "2007-11-26T17:22:14Z")
Congratulations to those creeping toward and those who have achieved 50,000 words. Me and my coffee cup salute you. Does anyone have any suggestions for a village/small town name for my story? Right now I’m using Smitherton and I hate it with a fiery passion. I’d really like something along the lines of Chipping Sodbury, which has always struck me as a very funny placename because it sounds like a swear word. I’m drawing a blank, honestly, and it’s pissing me off. Chipping Sodbury! If anybody comes up with a recommendation, I will write a very long and very purple dedication to you. Perhaps even a poem. Approaching 20,000 words. My goal is 30,000 by the end of the day. (My back-up goal is 25,000. If I reach that, then I won’t be too grumpy.) ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-a-na-gimme-a-no-gimme-a-wri-gimme-a-mo/424375/185 "2007-11-26T20:48:40Z")
Great Snoring? (Yes, there is such a place) Pill? (ditto) Nempnett Thrubwell? (really) Huish Episcopi? (just means “Bishop’s Huish”) Chalfont St Giles? Warthill? 42,494. One episode about how Flint buried his treasure, one about how Silver lost his leg, and one about how Flint’s piratical career ended, and I’m done. Three episodes, four days. Yay me! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-a-na-gimme-a-no-gimme-a-wri-gimme-a-mo/424375/186 "2007-11-26T22:28:25Z")
Wheee! I’m so pleased – as soon as I read the latest from Chris I zipped right over and snatched up BOTH the original poisonous mug AND the tote bag. Such a bargain at $5 and $10 respectively. Hey, who wouldn’t want a poisonous coffee mug? Exactly what you need to serve coffee to the person who persistently interrupts your writing time. “Have another cup, Dearie,” she said, with an evil little smile. Maybe I’ll make it the centerpiece of next year’s Nano. A sweet little old lady who is doing in all the people who annoy her in a variety of interesting and bizarre ways… ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-a-na-gimme-a-no-gimme-a-wri-gimme-a-mo/424375/187 "2007-11-27T01:00:59Z")
**Miss Purl** , I’m rather partial to Snaremarket, it seems so descriptive of the sales practice. I have no idea if it’s a real place. Smutterton? Fuller Well? Just how close to a swear word that isn’t do you want to go? ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-a-na-gimme-a-no-gimme-a-wri-gimme-a-mo/424375/188 "2007-11-27T01:32:33Z")
[QUOTE=StarvingButStrong] Congrats, Tamex! Have you gone purple yet? [/QUOTE] Yes, I have. I have also printed out the winner’s certificate. My family and I had a little celebration at Buffalo Wild Wings tonight. Unfortunately, the trivia game tonight was all sports, at which I royally suck, so it was a bit of an anticlimax. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-a-na-gimme-a-no-gimme-a-wri-gimme-a-mo/424375/189 "2007-11-27T18:48:45Z")
Three days to go, five thousand and one words wanted - thoroughly doable. 🙂 Well done to all the winners so far! ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2007, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-a-na-gimme-a-no-gimme-a-wri-gimme-a-mo/424375/190 "2007-11-28T05:00:16Z")
I’ve been confirmed (not in the religious sense) but every time I try to print the certificate something freezes - and last year’s fell off the wall in a very spooky way the other night. 6k to go for the personal goal. Every night I think; Yeah, I’ll crank out 3k tonight and drop the average - hah. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2007, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-a-na-gimme-a-no-gimme-a-wri-gimme-a-mo/424375/191 "2007-11-28T08:00:11Z")
_fangirl squeal at pep talk from Garth Nix_ **Malacandra** and **maggenpye** , thanks very much for the suggestions! I really like Snaremarket, which will fit in nicely with a subplot about the working class that is developing. I was talking about “North & South” (Elizabeth Gaskell, not American Civil War) with a friend the other day, I couldn’t leave out the plight of the working man. OK, so at this point, I am stuck at nearly 30,000 words. Can I write 10,000 words a day until 30 November? Probably not. Oh well. I’m kind of wishing this was like golf and I could handicap myself for starting late. But I’m going to try! And I will come close. I can just feel it. George Eliott status: Bathroom dirty. Authoress missing. ---
**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-a-na-gimme-a-no-gimme-a-wri-gimme-a-mo/424375/192 "2007-11-28T16:37:37Z")
Husband’s at 45K as of this morning and is totally excited about cranking the rest of it out. That poor boy has been tap-tap-tapping away from about 5 AM till he has to go to work, and then again from 6 PM till bedtime. He’s been having so much fun though. Thank you to you all for this thread which inspired me to encourage him to go for it…he’d been moaning about not writing as much as he used to, and this has really given him the big push he needed and he’s just thrilled. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-a-na-gimme-a-no-gimme-a-wri-gimme-a-mo/424375/193 "2007-11-28T18:05:48Z")
47,540. One more good run at it, and I’m there! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![ebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@ebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ebb)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-a-na-gimme-a-no-gimme-a-wri-gimme-a-mo/424375/194 "2007-11-28T18:50:28Z")
45,000, but running out of steam. It’s not that there aren’t enough scenes to write, it’s that there are way too many. It looks like this book, when complete, will be more in the 70,000 word range. So that means even if I make it to 50,000 by Friday to win NaNoWriMo, I won’t have really written a book yet. That kind of took the wind out of my sails a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2007, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-a-na-gimme-a-no-gimme-a-wri-gimme-a-mo/424375/195 "2007-11-28T19:01:01Z")
I’ve just cracked 47000. I think I can make up the last 3000, but my story is running its course. I know how I want it to end and that is coming up fast. Now the problem is that I only have tonight and Friday night really. I have a job interview on Friday after noon that I have to find a pair of pants for so that means nothing tonight! ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2007, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-a-na-gimme-a-no-gimme-a-wri-gimme-a-mo/424375/196 "2007-11-28T19:59:03Z")
Well, I just discovered this. Looks like I’m about 28 days late. Hmmm…wasn’t that a Sandra Bullock movie? Anyway, I might have to wait till next year. Or make December my writing month. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-a-na-gimme-a-no-gimme-a-wri-gimme-a-mo/424375/197 "2007-11-28T20:20:34Z")
1. Woo! ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-a-na-gimme-a-no-gimme-a-wri-gimme-a-mo/424375/198 "2007-11-29T17:54:13Z")
**Edward the Head** , **jsgoddess** : Go for it! **ebb** , just get the wordcount up - you can finish it off all you like once you’ve done the necessary writing. Meanwhile: > [@NaNoWriMo](#): > > Malacandra > Novel: Pieces of Eight > Genre: Historical Fiction > 50,113 words so far 😃 😛 That’s about 40 words more by their count than mine, but I’m home and dry any which way, and with a day in hand besides. See you next year! ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-a-na-gimme-a-no-gimme-a-wri-gimme-a-mo/424375/199 "2007-11-29T18:50:29Z")
I’m at 49,600 now, I think I’m just going to give up, I can’t get those last few words in I’m afraid! 😃 Maybe I shouldn’t have used so many contractions. Actually while I’m have a bit of a hard time with the last few words, my story naturally ended only a few thousand words ago so it’s not that bad. I’m writting the epilog now. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-a-na-gimme-a-no-gimme-a-wri-gimme-a-mo/424375/200 "2007-11-29T19:04:01Z")
C’mon! 400 words! You just need to go back and describe someone’s eyebrows. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-a-na-gimme-a-no-gimme-a-wri-gimme-a-mo/424375.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-a-na-gimme-a-no-gimme-a-wri-gimme-a-mo/424375.md?page=11)