Here at RMI we strive to be a safe, and secure community for all. Thus is the reason we have the PG guidelines for RMI, and the PG-13 guidelines for the Chatzy and ORMI. In our rules, the sharing of personal information is
forbidden but I wish to make it known that from now the Administrators will no longer allow minors; e-mail addresses to be released to anyone without written parental consent.
This means anyone under sixteen years old will not be able to give out their e-mails through the Admins of RMI or in Chatzy. This is to protect both RMI as a whole, but the Administrators. We could be held liable by your parents if we release your personal information to other authors. Under COPPA (Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act) we must have consent from a parent to release the e-mail address or other information.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact us via the appropriate form, as always. Thank you.
-Ryan.
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Author of the Month Theme, September 2012
“There was a little girl, who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead,
And when she was good, she was very, very good,
But when she was bad she was horrid.”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poem #835
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poem #835
Everyone has those habits. The ones that seem harmless - or maybe not - but that eventually drive everyone around them to madness. You know when your sister chews her gum just too loud or your brother plays Call of Duty with the sound on loud enough to wake the dead? What about when your best friend keeps borrowing your pens without asking and chewing on the caps before you get them back? When your favorite teacher pauses in the middle of a sentence for just a second too long? When you spend time on Chatzy instead of doing your summer reading or take the last chocolate chip cookie even though it’s just before dinner?
These little things are what make us human. These are our vices. And these are the sort of things that make our characters human too. They give other people fodder for their posts in response to us and help us develop our characters more completely.
That’s why this month’s Author of the Month themes is Vices. The author we honor next month will be one who, throughout the month, goes out of their way to highlight the small, human aspects of their character. The little things that make their roommate(s) want to stab them or drive their siblings crazy.
So what are you waiting for? Get writing! And don’t forget to nominate someone you think deserves the title!
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Author of the Month, August 2012
This month, our Author of the Month theme is "Challenge Yourself".
It's the beginning of a new term, and there's no better time than to sit down and think about why you write what you write. With the final testing of the Mary Sue Litmus Test just behind us, the Writing Center staff have really been discussing why people write what they do. And it's quite simple: most authors write what they know.
Most authors, especially at the very beginning of their time here at RMI, will write characters very similar to themselves. They often only write within their race and gender, picking hobbies for their character that they find it easy to sympathise with. It makes writing easier, and it's a lot less scary to know that you can't be called out for doing something wrong because you are writing a part of your life into your character. And your life is real.
But as people become more confident in their writing, they often slip into what's comfortable. It's something we've all done, because it's an easy thing to do. How many of us have found ourselves only writing characters who share our likes and dislikes? Who have the same interests and hobbies? Who are the same gender or race, or who come from the same socioeconomic level as we do?
So this month, we honor one of our youngest authors who never ceases to seek out a challenge. This author not only consistently write characters of a different gender, but truly strives to represent the characters with a sense of reality that other, more experienced authors may gloss over or lack. The characters written by this author are diverse, and this author strives on a daily basis to make them even more so. Moreover, after over a year of being on edits - and not giving up, even though it was very frustrating at times - this author has finally been given the go-ahead to post without assistance.
That's right. Our author of the month for August, 2012 is the author of Alice Beastly!
Congratulations, and write on Alice :)
It's the beginning of a new term, and there's no better time than to sit down and think about why you write what you write. With the final testing of the Mary Sue Litmus Test just behind us, the Writing Center staff have really been discussing why people write what they do. And it's quite simple: most authors write what they know.
Most authors, especially at the very beginning of their time here at RMI, will write characters very similar to themselves. They often only write within their race and gender, picking hobbies for their character that they find it easy to sympathise with. It makes writing easier, and it's a lot less scary to know that you can't be called out for doing something wrong because you are writing a part of your life into your character. And your life is real.
But as people become more confident in their writing, they often slip into what's comfortable. It's something we've all done, because it's an easy thing to do. How many of us have found ourselves only writing characters who share our likes and dislikes? Who have the same interests and hobbies? Who are the same gender or race, or who come from the same socioeconomic level as we do?
So this month, we honor one of our youngest authors who never ceases to seek out a challenge. This author not only consistently write characters of a different gender, but truly strives to represent the characters with a sense of reality that other, more experienced authors may gloss over or lack. The characters written by this author are diverse, and this author strives on a daily basis to make them even more so. Moreover, after over a year of being on edits - and not giving up, even though it was very frustrating at times - this author has finally been given the go-ahead to post without assistance.
That's right. Our author of the month for August, 2012 is the author of Alice Beastly!
Congratulations, and write on Alice :)
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