Welcome to the Sixties - or Term 12

And thusly does T12 begin. Just a few announcements:

• As some or all of you may know, the author of the Taylors, de Lenfents, and Ashtyn Tryphena-Phale has been deployed to Afghanistan for a year. She decided to pull her students instead of leaving them inactive, but intends to return to RMI as soon as she can with a fresh group of characters.
• On a similar note, we are now accepting applications for the position of Foretelling Arts.
• Although we have enough students to start term, we could still use more; although we don’t have anything left to bribe you with apart from virtual cookies and our eternal love, we’d really like it if you’d do some spreading of the RMI word for us.
• This year, we are piloting a pre-Auror programme. Watch out for more information later on in the year!
• If you haven’t yet filled out an Orientation Survey (for firsties) or a regular survey (for everyone else), it would make us smile if you do! Plus we give 10 points to the House of your choice.

Among cool looking boards (thanks to Julia), with appropriate links (Marina) and lots of new firsties, there’s something else new at RMI this year: the official RMI Writing Center.

The Writing Center is a place where our authors can find tools to help them improve their characterization and grammar, or submit posts for editing before they are posted. We invite you to request pages that you think would be helpful using the Contact Us form, and we absolutely encourage you to check out what we have! Our characterization sheets in particular have been exceptionally popular among a number of authors and come highly recommended.

As some of you may have noticed, our homepage indicates that we have instated a Writer of the Month. Each month, the Administrative Team will decide on one author who has demonstrated a significant dedication to the improvement of his or her work through the use of the Writing Center. Although Admin Team members are not eligible for this reward, staff members are, and we encourage each and every writer at RMI to take this chance to not only improve their work, but also be publically recognised for their commitment.

This month, we’d like to congratulate the author of Cara Carter as our Writer of the Month. Although Cara’s author has been writing here on and off since the very beginning, I have never seen her as much hard work and dedication into her characters as she has recently. This particular author was our ‘guinea pig’ for the character development sheets that are now available to everyone on RMI and has taken some really impressive leaps in her understanding of writing and characterization in the past half-term. After working with her and being able to see the change in her understanding of her characters and writing, I can honestly say that I’ve never been more impressed by the steps forward taken by an author. She is a truly deserving recipient of RMI’s first Writer of the Month award.

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