Guidelines for January

I know that most of you have probably already seen these if you go on the forum regularly, but for those of you who haven't joined, I figured that I should probably post the basic "rules" that we have for January's task:

1) It has to be fiction; if it's not fiction, it doesn't count. You can write a story in poetry, song, or journal/diary form, but it has to be fiction.

2) If you're going for the word count goal (WC or WCG) of 11,111 words for the whole month, you're going to have to write approximately 360 words per day in order to finish.

3) It has to be a brand new story. I don't care if you start working on character sketches, plot outlines, and other such things now, but you can't actually start writing until 12:00am on January 1st. Anyone who has done Nanowrimo before knows what I'm talking about. And if you have an idea for a story that you don't think will be 11,000 words long, then write it and work on something else that's either new, or something that's already been started (you can do a WIP only after you write a new story).

If anyone has any questions, please email me.

His,

Laura