Each Monday a group email is sent out detailing the current assignment. It is due before midnight of the following Sunday. There is a writers forum to discuss the assignment. Once completed the writer links their work to this forum. If it is completed correctly and on time, they have earned the weekly rewards.

What rewards? Read on...

Each writer has a 'pool' of gp's that are set aside specifically for them. These are gp's put in my the writer, their sponsors and other anonymous donors. This activity is going to match every pool, allowing each writer a chance to earn double their pool amount by completing their assignments on time.

Each participant must put up other at least 10,000 gift points of their own money. I highly recommend putting in as much as each can afford to keep the writer motivated through the 40 weeks. Additional gift points may be paid by other members, called sponsors. Any number of sponsors are allowed to help each participant bulk up their pool. Gift points will not be refunded once the contest begins.

Example: Tolstoy joins the group and signs the contract. He put in 10,000 gp's of his own. Another WDC member puts 50,000 into his pool as encouragement. As the activity goes on an anonymous donor sends 100,000 gp's to be split between all 37 writers...that comes to 2702 gp's per writer, which we add to his pool.

                             10,000
                             50,000
                             02,702
Tolstoy's pool is     62,702

If he completes every assignment on time he will have earned 125,404 by the final week and have a completed novel.

Each week that you complete an assignment you will earn back a percentage of the gift points you put up plus an additional reward through the group. By the end of the forty weeks you will have doubled your money. Early in the process the rewards will be small (1.5% of your pool) but as you progress the rewards will increase. The final week will be 6% fo your pool. If you have a complete novel (as judged by Meeple and her helpers) - no matter if your assignments were on time or not - you will earn the final bonus: the bulk of the remaining gp's which should be about 25% of the pool.)

Plus, there will be chances to win additional incentives such as merit badges, awardicons and other rewards through challenges.

What happens to pool gp's if an assignment is late?
They will go into the group fund.
The group fund will be used:
- to purchase incentives
- to purchase awards for challenges
- as the 'matching' portion of the project
- some gp's may be set aside to start out the 2014 Novel Writing: 101 Project.