__Some of you may be familiar with NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, an open challenge to write 50,000 words of a novel in 30 days during the month of November. This is a relatively daunting task, but the whole point is to just get it out! Lots of people have ideas and want to write stories, but they never get around to getting them penned. As such, NaNoWriMo is about quantity over quality, where word count matters more than content or theme or plot or whatever else. Editing can always come later, but you have to write the words first! NaNoWriMo has inspired many spin-off events including Script Frenzy in April, where in screenwriters aim to write 100 pages of a screenplay in 30 days. NaBloPoMo is National Blog Posting Month, also in November, where bloggers try to blog once a day for the entire month.
In a similar spirit, SoSuWriMo is 'Souls Super Writing Month! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write 50,000 words worth of posts in 31 days from midnight EST January 1st to 11:59 pm EST January 31st. At an average of 350 words a post, that's a little less than five posts a day for thirty-one days. c: (Past participants may notice that we're going for the full 31 days of January instead of the 30 days from the 1-30 or 2-31. This is on purpose.)
__If you intend to participate, please reply to the participants thread once and only once. For the duration of the month, keep track of your word count per post for each thread, link each thread, and your overall total. For players with multiple characters, all characters' posts are counted. In years past, many people made use of Google Docs Spreadsheets to keep track of posts and word counts, and a tutorial on how to do that is provided below.
Though NaNoWriMo champions reckless abandon in terms of quality, for SoSuWriMo, we highly encourage you to try and maintain quality while still busting out hardcore for quantity. After all, whereas novel-writing is a one-person task, roleplaying is a collaborative effort and it would be unfair for your thread partners for you to sudden skimp on quality.
- Do posts in LASKY count towards SSWM? Yes.
- Can you thread with yourself/write read-only posts? Yes, but it shouldn't make up a majority of your posts. After all, roleplaying is supposed to be interactive!
- When's the next SSWM? SoSuWriMo is an annual event held every January.
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Are we allowed to write up posts beforehand and then post within the time period?
No. That would be considered cheating. The point of the event is to write as much as possible within the stated time period, not to simply post as much as possible in the stated time period. Pre-planning plots, threads, and other ways to reach your word goal is allowed for SoSuWriMo; however, every word contributing to your 50,000 should be written in the month of January. Obviously, we have no way to really enforce this, but this has always been an event dependent on players' honesty and we give you the benefit of the doubt. However, if cheating becomes pervasive, we won't be able to continue sponsoring events like this, so please don't do it!
__All you get is bragging rights and street cred!! ...Just kidding.  How could we not reward such a stupendous effort? All participants that manage to net 50,000 or more words during the month of January will receive the following:
- Special SoSuWriMo Champ icon
- A Sparkling Ultramarine OOC Catacombs Skull
- 'Souls Tangible Prize Pack (requires shipping address)
- Winners' Signature Banner
- Custom title
- Custom Experimental Kiritar
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