NaNoWriMo 2012

NaNoWriMo on Aywas is an event to reward users who participate in the international NaNoWriMo event.

NaNoWriMo is an abbreviation of National Novel Writing Month. It runs from November 1st to November 30th every year and encourages users to write a 50,000 word manuscript in that 30 day period.

A NaNoWriMo 2012 forum was created on Aywas and featured topics for users to develop characterization and plots with each other. Users would create a forum topic for their story and update it with daily wordcount to qualify for a prize. This year a new Private Forum was created for users who did not wish to have their work published for everyone to see.

Rules
To qualify for a prize, users were required to create a topic in the offical NaNoWriMo 2012 forum. The topic's title was the title of their novel and their current wordcount. Users updated this thread by posting their writing for each day. This year users were not permitted to host their stories offsite.

To qualify for a prize users did not have to write or update their forum topic every day, but they did have to update more than once to show gradual progress - simply submitting a finished draft at the end of the month would not qualify a user for a prize.

Prizes
This year the prizes were stackable tiers, each user received one of each prize based on their wordcount.

The prizes were as follows:

Preview of Writer's Wardrobe:
 * 1,000 words: Calligraphy Pen
 * 5,000 words: Disappearing Ink
 * 10,000 words: Writer's Wardrobe
 * 25,000 words: Quil Sword + Pen Blade
 * 50,000 words: Literature Shield + Manuscript special forum title