For she has just lain down and invited her own evisceration...
"I have a weird favor to ask of you. My birthday present from my fam is writing time - I have the whole afternoon. I'm setting the goal of 5,000 words.
If I don't reach it, will you dole out some McK punishment, as you did to Whirl? I know I'm bringing it on myself, but I have to get someone to keep me accountable and I'm more afraid of you than any of my other writer friends and I mean that in a very loving, admiring sort of way."
Oh, she knows what The Koala likes in her friends. *sets the wordometer* *chk* Go, Aerin!
*The Koala retires for a relaxing little claw sharpen and polish*
The 2012 Koala Challenge
I think we'll call this column an 'example' of a typical month for a while...keep picking up the badges, though!
Keep writing, keep submitting and earn Koala Love Points! Report in at the end of every month and She Who Is Always Right will total your points and let you know which badge you may display on the side of your blog.
New victims always welcome - please let me know in the comment trail of the latest post. Full instructions for the 2012 challenge here!
Nine or more points:
Angie
Stevie
Pam
Rick (who's Rick? Ah well, he reported in)
Eight points:
Seven points:
Six points:
6 Iasa (it was 5.5, but I'm rounding her up out of amazement. I think it's an Iasa Record)
Five points:
Four points:
Three points:
Two points
One point
Pete
"We were on a break..."
Displease the Koala by neglecting your writing altogether and you may find yourself joining Sarah
KOALA SMACKDOWN
Displease the Koala even more and she may call in her slippery sidekick and put you on:
SUPER-SMACKDOWN!
Aniket
Robin
With thanks to JJ de Benedictis for the fantastic artwork (and her fine abilities with toenail pliers).
Keep writing, keep submitting and earn Koala Love Points! Report in at the end of every month and She Who Is Always Right will total your points and let you know which badge you may display on the side of your blog.
New victims always welcome - please let me know in the comment trail of the latest post. Full instructions for the 2012 challenge here!
Nine or more points:
Angie
Stevie
Pam
Rick (who's Rick? Ah well, he reported in)
Eight points:
Seven points:
Six points:
6 Iasa (it was 5.5, but I'm rounding her up out of amazement. I think it's an Iasa Record)
Five points:
Four points:
Sempra
Whirl (how'd he beat me?! That never happens!)
Three points:
3 McK
Two points
Mar
Sylvia
One point
Pete
"We were on a break..."
Jenna
JJdeGoblin
Displease the Koala by neglecting your writing altogether and you may find yourself joining Sarah
on
KOALA SMACKDOWN
Displease the Koala even more and she may call in her slippery sidekick and put you on:
SUPER-SMACKDOWN!
Aniket
Robin
With thanks to JJ de Benedictis for the fantastic artwork (and her fine abilities with toenail pliers).
About Me
- McKoala
- A marsupial with pretensions to humanity. E-mail the tartan furball at mckoalarado at gmail dot com.
14 comments:
I can help if she doesn't make it, right?
*clacks toe-nail pincers*
Its Aerin's Birthday today?
OMG she's going to kill me. Of I go to drop her a mail.
Are you an evil mesmeric psychic as well as a seasoned render of flesh?
Aerin the masochist.
Aerin is much braver than I realised. Those claws are terrifying.
Don't you hurt my Rosey Posey Aerin!!!!!!
Even if she is bringing this upon herself. 5k in one afternoon? Aerin--I'll say a little prayer for you. You can do it!
Um...while I'm here, could you pretty please add me to your list of victims, I mean participants.
My weekly goal? 2k.
Aerin- hope all went well!
P.S. I need a week off - word-count. BECAUSE - an elderly and hard-to-please and constant-fuss relative is coming to stay for a week, and I'll have my hands full just remaining sane.
Just to clarify, peeps - I was giving myself yesterday afternoon and this morning, since I had the obligatory tequila party last night. I have three hours and 1800 words to go.
It's okay that I've just written "watermelon" 3200 times, isn't it?
#challenge fail. I tried and I could give tons of excuses, but you are all welcome to punish me as you see fit. (Except for Whirl. I'm afraid I'd enjoy his punishments too much.)
An awesome learning experience, and definitely something I want to try more often - the sort of NaNo weekend, rather than month.
...sort of NaNo weekend, rather than month.
You could try the three-day novel contest.
Mind you, that's an order of magnitude more masochism than NaNoWriMo.
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