[Zageron]

Originally Posted by DossarLX ODI

I'm not sure what this means. Is this just saying to submit a 50,000 word novel and nobody on the site reads it? Granted it does provide a challenge to write that much in a month, but I was wondering about the 10,000 foot view of this site's mission.

What do you mean 10,000 foot view? That is simply stating that in order to validate your word count you are required to submit your novel to the websites validation engine to determine how many works you actually have. You are more than welcome to use a word scrambler to obfuscate the order of the words if you wish. This is entirely a competition for yourself, you aren't being judged. However, the sponsorship prizes or possibilities of getting a publisher would be diminished drastically if it turned out that you hadn't actually written anything. :P