Thursday, December 01, 2005

Its all over!

What an adventure!

What awesome people us Maine writers are...

And so many winners ...

We had 1,829,641 words as a state!!! .. Which is #34 of all regions in Nano!!! ... Great job ...

Me and my wife also got 50,000 words as did Kendra, WriAnimator .....

We beat Sweden and Philadelphia .. and missed beating Oklahoma by only 12,000 words ...

Here at the Maheux/Davis-Quinn house, we were both winners ...

I ended up with 56,695 words and Lanna had 50,100 ....

Lanna wanted to make sure she had as much drama as possible ... She had under 25,000 words at 2 pm Saturday ... Since then she has been on a tear with 7,000 on Saturday and 4,000 or more every other day ....

She had only 1,000 words left around 10:30 and then her computer refused to work... I unfortunately was at the Great Lost Bear and had to run back and give her a computer ....

She got to 50,000 on her book from Microsoft Word wordcounter by writing the very,very,very,very,very,very,very,very,very,very end ....

I am so proud of her .. .She was officially a winner at 11:53 pm ... just 7 minutes before the deadline .. Lanna Maheux-Quinn rocks ..

So there are 50 Winners in Maine!!!! WOWWWWW!!!!! ... 50 of us passed 50,000 words out of 207 in the state . .Give yourself all a hand!!

Well I will see you all tomorrow at the Village Cafe in Portland ..... Village Cafe is on Newbury St. in Portland. If you need more in depth directions, feel free to email me. ... The thank god its over party starts at 5:30...

It was also great to meet some more of you at the Great Lost Bear! .... That is one of the great beer bars in the country #4 in America according to beeradvocate.com

And Maine is #1 in the country in cool writers.

edmund davis-quinn
Novelist

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Two things...

First of all I just set up our Yahoo group. I sent out some invites for people who's email addys I had. Whoever I missed please shoot me an email so I can send you one.

Secondly, there is a TGIO party on Friday. Village Cafe in Portland at 5:30. I need people to tell me if they will be able to attend so I can let them know how many of us they have to put up with. Please email me at nano_maine@yahoo.com

Ken

Sunday, November 27, 2005

3 more winners at the Meetup!

3 more Maine winners today

At our meet up at Panera Bread in Westbrook, 3 more people crossed the 50,000 mark and are Nano Winners....
I couldn't be happier!! Also turned the cable back on which is nice.

My wife has also kicked serious butt with 7,000 words yesterday and another 5,000 today...

I am so proud of her
.My book is currently just under 54,000 words but still has a ways to go. Its going to be hard to let the Fitzgeralds go. I am really enjoying interacting with them through my fiction.

And of course, the strange case of Timothy Thomas Higgins, from an amazingly awful week, to a terrifically great one.
Cheers!

Congratulations Kendra, Jenny and Liz! You are all winners!!! And can get little icons and stuff from the site :))

edmund davis-quinn