The RPG Maker Resource Kit

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Retaken from Zylos's post minus the mini-contest he made, since it's nearing October and as such prep for the month should begin now.
Some of you may have heard of the National Novel Writing Month (http://www.nanowrimo.org/) (also known as NaNoWriMo), most of you probably have not. The National Novel Writing Month is a creative writing project held annually in November in which participants attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in one month. Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved. Victors of the challenge are given a free printed copy and a tshirt of their accomplishments, and the printed copy is a manuscript that is in the format to be sent out to publishers. Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces people to lower their expectations, take risks, and write on the fly. It's a daunting task to write a 50,000 word story, but last year alone they had 32,000 people who managed to finish. And this year, I'd like some people from RMRK to join those ranks if they can. We're mostly a creative game making community, and it's time we show off that creative energy.

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THE RULES:

• You may start your story at midnight on November 1st and must try to submit a 50,000 word story by 11:59:59 PM on November 30th. You can make plans in advance but you can't start actually writing before November 1st.
• You can write any genre, theme, language, or format that you wish. Everything from fanfiction, which uses trademarked characters, to novels in poem format, and even metafiction is allowed, AS LONG AS IT IS A NOVEL. They define a novel as a lengthy work of fiction, and as their FAQ states: "If you consider the book you're writing a novel, we consider it a novel too!"
• You have to be the sole author of your work. No buddying up with someone as far as writing if you want to officially enter. Bouncing ideas off of someone or even having someone dictate to you what to write is fine, as long as it's your work.
• It obviously has to be more than one word repeated 50,000 times, but other than that quality doesn't matter; the main goal is just quantity.
• You'll have to register to have it checked for word count before midnight on November 30th and be officially declared a winner, but that takes all of forty seconds to do and there's no obligations at all even if you do sign up. You can do it anytime from now until the end of the contest I believe.

Go ahead and check out their website for more exact details on rules and such. Honestly, they won't check for cheating other than making sure it's in on time and not just a joke of words repeated over and over again. They aren't going to read what you write, as that's just plain impossible for them to try to read all of them.