Blogocentric Formulations

Write-A-Thon is done!

I'm officially calling it. We still have one outstanding donor, but everyone else is paid up. And considering this individual was also a competing writer... and hasn't been online since s/he originally signed up to sponsor and compete (didn't respond to any of the three emails before being disqualified as a writer, or any of the four emails sent to collect)... I'm not holding out too much hope for the 50,000 GP commitment that was made. It sucks to have to cover that cost out of my own coffers, but it's only about 1/20th of the cost I had to eat for prizes and flaky sponsors last year, so I'd consider it a successful event overall.

And since I'm a sucker for useless trivia, if anyone was wondering, the 9.4 million words written by the 84 writers in my activity wrote more collective words than each of the following official NaNo communities:

The cities of Cincinnati and Las Vegas
The whole states of Alaska, Hawaii, and Vermont
The entire countries of Norway, Spain, and Japan

Not to shabby!

And even though we ended up giving away 6,125,000 Gift Points to seven wonderful groups, it still hasn't satiated my holiday spirit. Since I didn't need nearly as my Gift Points this year to cover the losses, I think I'm going to send my minions elves out to visit some good cheer upon a few activities and organizations that weren't featured this year. If you don't know who you are... you will soon!

Happy Holidays, everyone!