NaNoWriMo 2011

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.

Aywas users who participated in NaNoWriMo 2011 were offered tiered prizes based on their achieved wordcount. Users created a forum topic for their novel and recorded their daily wordcount, and Eri awarded prizes after the event finished.

Rules
To qualify for prizes, users were required to create a topic in the offical NaNoWriMo 2011 forum. The topic's title was the title of their novel and their current wordcount - this had to be updated daily. A new post had to be made in the topic every day with a daily word count and either a screenshot to prove the wordcount or a copy of everything written that day.

Initially the rules required the user to start their forum topic on the 1st, but after some controversy this rule was revised so that users could start from any date in November.

Users had to post in thier forum topic every day, even if they didn't write anything that day. If they didn't update for a day they would have to start from a wordcount of zero the next day.

Prizes
The prizes were tiered based on the user's final qualifying wordcount.

The tiers were as follows:


 * 15,000 words: Pen Blade + Metal Custom Crystal
 * 30,000 words: Quil Sword + Pen Blade + Blue Custom Crystal
 * 50,000 words: Literature Shield + Quil Sword + Pen Blade + Gold Custom Crystal