More Horses! More Gates!
(Edit - the late addition of Heather Olah - the only American in the contest excepting Dan Kaszor, as far as I know - makes forty-six.)
We've more than doubled last year's participation rate, with a total of forty-six aspiring novelists. Based on normal NaNoWriMo success rates, we should be looking at seven new novels as a result of this month. Based on last year's U of A edition success rate, we should get eight. Based on my absurd expectations, we should get at least forty. Don't let yourselves down!
This year's special welcome goes out to Richard Casey, who brought NaNoWriMo (U of A Edition) to realms having nothing whatever to do with the U of A - specifically England, which the more educated among you will recognize as homeland of the English language. Which only means, of course, that expectations are much higher on Richard and his crew of limeys than on us colonials.
Anyway, there having been sufficient ado in this post already, let's have a look at the participants:
Josh Bazin
Stephen Beckman
Justin Benko
Catrin Berghoff *
Richard Casey
Natalie Climenhaga *
Ian Cole
Matt Costello
David Cournoyer
Bryn Cox
Caitlin Crawshaw
Adam Demaniuk
Ashley Geis
Ryan Heise
Donald Heitzman *
Erik Jacobs
Daniel Kaszor **
Michelle Kelly *
Elliot Kerr
Barrett Klesko
Mike Larocque
Scott Lilwall *
Janet Lo
Thabo Miller
Kim Misutka
Michael Ng
Chris O'Leary *
Heather Olah
Greg Overguard
Shawna Pandya *
Tim Peppin *
Uzma Rajan
Erin Reddekopp
Erran Rilkoff
Ashraf Rushdy
Nadia Rushdy *
Chris Samuel *
Chris Schafenacker
Steph Shantz
Heather Smith **
Michael Smith
Steve Smith **
Krystina Sulatycki
Nicholas Tam *
Jake Troughton **
Iman Verjee
* participated in 2006
** completed novel in 2006
If anybody needs me, I'll be on my laptop.
(Edit - the late addition of Heather Olah - the only American in the contest excepting Dan Kaszor, as far as I know - makes forty-six.)
We've more than doubled last year's participation rate, with a total of forty-six aspiring novelists. Based on normal NaNoWriMo success rates, we should be looking at seven new novels as a result of this month. Based on last year's U of A edition success rate, we should get eight. Based on my absurd expectations, we should get at least forty. Don't let yourselves down!
This year's special welcome goes out to Richard Casey, who brought NaNoWriMo (U of A Edition) to realms having nothing whatever to do with the U of A - specifically England, which the more educated among you will recognize as homeland of the English language. Which only means, of course, that expectations are much higher on Richard and his crew of limeys than on us colonials.
Anyway, there having been sufficient ado in this post already, let's have a look at the participants:
Josh Bazin
Stephen Beckman
Justin Benko
Catrin Berghoff *
Richard Casey
Natalie Climenhaga *
Ian Cole
Matt Costello
David Cournoyer
Bryn Cox
Caitlin Crawshaw
Adam Demaniuk
Ashley Geis
Ryan Heise
Donald Heitzman *
Erik Jacobs
Daniel Kaszor **
Michelle Kelly *
Elliot Kerr
Barrett Klesko
Mike Larocque
Scott Lilwall *
Janet Lo
Thabo Miller
Kim Misutka
Michael Ng
Chris O'Leary *
Heather Olah
Greg Overguard
Shawna Pandya *
Tim Peppin *
Uzma Rajan
Erin Reddekopp
Erran Rilkoff
Ashraf Rushdy
Nadia Rushdy *
Chris Samuel *
Chris Schafenacker
Steph Shantz
Heather Smith **
Michael Smith
Steve Smith **
Krystina Sulatycki
Nicholas Tam *
Jake Troughton **
Iman Verjee
* participated in 2006
** completed novel in 2006
If anybody needs me, I'll be on my laptop.
posted by "Steve Smith" at 2:54 PM
3 Comments:
That's fairly generous. I predict 5 completed novels, one of them being my own.
I've decided to do away with my unequalled grasp of the English language-a-ma-jig and instead write my novel entirely in Martian. Which is pretty much the same as English except there's lots of grammatical inconsistencies and a far lower vocabularly, consisting mostly of um's and er's.
I've decided to get in on this giant waste of time. See you suckers in June.
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