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"The only real problem I have with your blog here, Chuck, is #23. \r\n\r\nNaNoWriMo has no police. Now, we've got a forum where, if you ask specifically about the rules, we'll tell you what they are. But there's not a lot of them. Hell, you have more \"rules\" here than we do!  ;) What I tell people all the time in the forums is that \"this is a self challenge\" -- there are reasons for the rules we have, but if they don't work for you, we don't care. You're not flouting the police, you're just doing what thousands have done before you. IN fact, we've worked to build a culture of welcoming. Every so often, some new fellow comes along and starts wielding the 8 paragraph \"rulebook\" like they know something everyone doesn't. \r\n\r\nAnd I politely hand him his ass, and tell him to pipe down. \"Cheaters\" are welcome, and people who call them cheaters get their asses handed to them, as well. Usually by the community, but if they don't get them, I do. \r\n\r\nWe've never claimed to have one way of doing it. That's why I even wrote a blog a while back about being a \"loser\" and being okay with that. \r\n\r\nIn the end, we all want one thing. MORE FUCKING WORDS. Write more fucking words, people, and do it from a smoky dark room in your mom's basement. Do it in public. Do it with friends. Do it with the forums community. Just fucking do it already."
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