NaNoWriMo 2010

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 2010 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.

Rules
To qualify for a prize, users were required to create a topic in the offical NaNoWriMo 2010 forum. The topic's title was the title of their novel and their current wordcount. Users either updated this thread by posting their writing for each day, or with a link to the writing stored off-site.

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.

If a user wrote their story completely Aywas related their prize was doubled.

Note that these rules were changed for NaNoWriMo 2011, which required daily updates but screenshots of wordcount were acceptable as proof of writing.

Prizes
The prizes were not tiered, each user received only one prized based on their wordcount.

Note prizes were doubled if a user wrote their novel completely Aywas-related.

The prizes were as follows:


 * 1,000 words: Random species Random Potion - for example, Random Melo Potion or Random Rogr Potion
 * 10,000 words: Metal Custom Crystal
 * 20,000 words: Blue Custom Crystal
 * 30,000 words: Gold Custom Crystal
 * 40,000 words: Breeding Coin
 * 50,000 words: Hybrid Custom Crystal