It's been a while hasn't it, blog? I haven't been totally absent though, I've been sending out motivational emails and adding members and keeping on top of things but there hasn't been a moment to add a blog entry (there probably isn't really now, to be honest!).

What is new? Not really much; our funds are still down on last year but they aren't doing too badly and we now have 150 members! That's quite exciting.

Talking of members, I am deliberating making it a requirement, starting in 2010, to be able to host your novel in your portfolio. This is for several reasons: it is a lot easier than trying to arrange external hosting, and more importantly the majority of people who request this extrenal hosting never use it, either because they don't take part in NaNoWriMo after all or because they don't bother sending me their writing. So it doesn't seem to be worth all the effort. Any comments? I'll leave it in place this year because we have an unusually high number of people requiring hosting and it's possible that they will all use it (although many are inactive members from a few years ago).

Speaking of which, if you do not take part in NaNoWriMo for two years in a row and particularly if you are not active on Writing.com, I will probably remove you from the group so that we have a realistic idea of how many members are taking part. This makes it a lot easier to budget for prizes!

That's all for now, folks. Off to read 52 tort law cases and write a bunch of essays.