National Novel Writing Month

So as I'm sure most of you know, it's that time of the year again. That's right: National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). It is only a short 24 hours away!

But psh, who needs to write 50,000 words of a novel to celebrate? Novels require planning...and new characters...and not being on the RMI Author Cafe while you're writing so we don't distract you.

Instead of being boring and writing a novel, we at RMI are challenging YOU to write more posts in this month of November. Take this opportunity to improve your characterization, lengthen your posts, and have an awesome month of intense writing with your favorite people ever. Moreover, if you DO choose to accept this challenge and succeed, your accomplishment will be forever recorded in our up-and-coming trophy hall.

What exactly are the rules of this challenge? Well, here we go: (Pay attention we've changed some rules this year!)

• To be eligible, Authors must save their posts in a word processing document that will count their words, and this document must be e-mailed to us (theheads at rmimagic dotcom) at the end of the month to confirm your wordcount.

• For each student character you have at RMI, you must write 7,500 words this month to meet our challenge. If you have more than 5 characters, you still only have to write 37,500 words; we'll take pity on you.

• All posts are eligible for consideration, but please don't spam one board with a gajillion posts just to meet word count. Threads are your friends!

• By the same token, ORMIs will count towards your word count...but don't be lame and have all of your words come from ORMIs.

• BUT - caveat - posts done for non-student characters (for example, a younger sibling or parent) will only count for HALF words.
• Only posts from November 1st to November 30th count. So be prepared for tomorrow the flood gates open!