For those just joining us, The Great Tea Debacle is a word count race. The person who can add the most words to the project of their choice will win the following prizes:
* 1 tin of Lapsang Souchong, loose leaf. (Provided by Kristine)
* 1 bag/box of tea from Tea Thyme Teahouse in Springfield, IL. (Provided by Lori)
* 6 oz of tea that everyone must try before they die (Provided by Pete)
* Hot chocolate & one nifty tea ball (Provided by Carrie)
* Homemade hot chocolate mix (Provided by Mary)
* Gift certificate to Amazon or Starbucks (Provided by Melissa)
* Recipe for killer Earl Grey teacake (Provided by Cath)
The current participants:
Carrie
Cath
Ed (Shadow Ferret)
Jen
Kristine
Lori
Mary (Soccer Mom)
Melissa
Pete
How it works:
* Race times correspond with NaNoWriMo, which translates to November 1st to November 30th.
* Just before beginning, e-mail both Pete and Lori with your starting word counts.
* On Sundays, e-mail both Pete and Lori with updated wordcounts.
* On November 30th, e-mail both Pete and Lori with your final word counts.
* The person who has increased their word counts the most, wins.
Updates will be posted on The Commune in simplified format and in a slightly snazzier format at CarrPeeDiem.
Midnight Muse will "help" you strategize.
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by "help you strategize," Lori means that MidnightMuse will attempt to demoralize and sabotage you mercilessly unto death.
Actually, Pete, I'm not supposed to tell you this, but she's organizing the plot to ensure that you don't win. I, for one, have no problem with this.
Bwhahhahahaha!!! Ahem *cough*
Who - Me?? :D (checks 101 reasons to stop writing web page) Why, I thought I was The Motivator? It sounds so much nicer than my real nickname: The Emascalator.
i have never been emascalated. I have always been very clean in that respect.
I shall win. I have a secret weapon. Sorry.
But I've got a can of Raid and a time machine.
Which would mean you didn't exist in our universe any more and couldn't get the prizes anyway, right?
Dunno why you're all arguing about it anyway. None of you are actually going to win.
You're so cute, Cath! I could just tweak your cheeks.
You should tweak her cheeks. It'll give you two something to do for the rest of November after the 2nd, when I finish.
*Lori types steadily on.*
Why is Lori racing already? Very strange.
Tweak away MM. At least it keeps your hands off the keyboard.
Like that's going to help her any...
With what else, exactly, do you imagine she will type?
I can't imagine why she'd need to type anything. It's not like it's going to help any. :P
Since we know she's a cat person, she's probably quite skilled at typing one-handed while the other hand scratches ears, rubs bellies and smooths back fur, rescues electronic mice, scoops limp bodies from her notes, moves her glass from overly curious felines, and tweaks cheeks.
I have four cats and a baby. Bring it. :)
As a matter of fact, I grew quite skilled two years ago after elbow surgery - sitting on the couch with one arm useless, two cats to pet and typing.
My nose is a tad pointy.
I'm sure it was either learn to type with your nose, give up writing, or teach the cats to take dictation (cats already know how to type.) Really, there was only one viable option in that list.
Hmm. Let me get this straight. I email you a starting word count. Then I email you a finishing word count.
And at no time do you ever request to SEE the words?
*pulls his mustache ala Snidely Whiplash*
This could work in my favor.
*runs off to grow a mustache*
You're going to give updates every Sunday, too. This post is now, hopelessly out of date.
For this, The First Great Tea Debacle, we've decided to trust to the honor system. If we do this again, we're looking at ways to validate the counts.
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