You may have heard of National Novel-Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), an international project whose participants try to write a novel within the month of November. From just after midnight on November 1 to just before midnight on November 30, tens of thousands of people spend their spare time cranking out 50,000-word books. I don't know about you, but I don't have the time to write a novel. Instead, building on our success from last year, I'd like to propose a FunTrivia version by declaring November a Quiz-Writing Month (QuiWriMo). The goal is to set each of you fine authors a personal challenge to step up your quiz- and question-writing in the month of November. This might mean finishing off neglected quizzes sitting in your word processor, or going for the Question Quest badges, or making progress on a Challenge or Commission quiz, or writing new works from scratch. Your mission: write more questions than usual in the month of November! To make the rules a bit more specific: 1. Only questions written in November count. You can do research or outlining in advance, but not the writing! (For example, say you have four questions written on a fifteen-question quiz, and you finish it up in November. That counts for eleven questions -- the ones written during QuiWriMo.) The challenge runs from 12:01 a.m. November 1 to 11:59 p.m. November 30, your local time. 2. Questions do not have to go online in November, so don't worry about the queue lengths. This is an honor-system challenge. If you want, you can claim thirty questions' worth of credit if you write the first question on each of thirty quizzes, even if you don't actually finish any of them until QuiWriMo 2011. You can divide up the questions any way you want - quizzes with 10 questions, quizzes with 25 questions, question-quest questions, whatever inspires you. 3. Let us know in the thread what you're going for so that we can all support your efforts! At the end of the month, I'll tally up all the questions I'm told about to see what impact we've made, so post in the thread or send me a message (either forums or main site) if you'd like your total to count. Last year, this challenge produced an amazing 1411 questions! 4. We want everyone to have something to shoot for, no matter his or her level of free time or team engagement. Our goal is to push forward on quantity without sacrificing quality -- we don't want you to feel you have to rush through something that you aren't satisfied with. To provide a range of possible targets, we have five different levels this year: Team QuiWriMo: As a group, write a team quiz entirely in the month of November. Local QuiWriMo: Finish two quizzes or crosswords in November. (It's okay to have started them previously.) National QuiWriMo: Write 30 questions in November. That's at least one per day! Worldwide QuiWriMo: Write 50 questions in November. That could be a Question Quest badge all by itself! Galactic QuiWriMo: Write 100 questions in November. That could be ten full quizzes! If you "go galactic" this year, you'll have automatically satisfied National and Worldwide as well -- and probably Local, too! You can also choose to add some spice to your own personal challenge. If you have a lot of partially written quizzes, you might commit to write at least one question for each of them. If you aim to write several new quizzes this month, you might challenge yourself to make each one in a different category. You might want to write a whole series of quizzes, start to finish, about similar subjects, or finally finish off that one idea that you had ages ago. Or, if you find yourself avoiding Kyle because of the 17 uncompleted challenge quizzes you've signed up for, this could be a great chance to finish a few off! Who's with me for QuiWriMo 2010?