1) No. For example, I posted my NaNo novel "Triad: Hath Three Parts Wrought" as I was writing it.

2) Strictly, no, but generally its good to aim to have a comoled story by the end.

3) You don't post on the Nano site, just paste the words in a box to verify wordcount. Posting it here puts it on display. One thing to be aware of though is what license you publish it under.

It really depends on your intent.

If you plan on trying to publish this through traditional publishing channels, I'd recommend at least "All Rights Reserved" or not posting it publicly at all as some publishers get uppity if you have posted a work publicly online.

If you want people to be able to read and share the work for free as long as they attribute you as the original author but don't create their own work based off of yours, nor be able to use it for commercial purposes (unless they get your specific permission), a license like the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs license would be a good fit.

I'm basically regurgitating what's already written under the basic license descriptions on the Creative Commons website, check out the tool at http://creativecommons.org/choose/ or look at the license descriptions at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ to work out what license will best fit you.

Also, you might not want to post your novel as you're going along because NaNo novels often end up full of typos, word-padding and other stuff you'll just cut out afterwards. Though this can be quite amusing to read, it's not necessarily your best work and you might not want to put it on display :)

@delorfinde But that's half the fun of NaNo *giggles* :}

I'm gonna try my hardest to actually reach the word count this year instead of getting bowled over by issues and bailing. NaNo is great and people here are really supportive, you'll enjoy it =)

So you're allowed to do the NaNoWriMo and post the edited version on the site at the same time?

I'm still lost... How do you post on NaNoWriMo?! xD

@iamkathybrown13: You make your own rules. However, Nanowrimo doesn't encourage editing too much while you go. I think folks who post their Nanos on the go onto protagonize, do some minimal editing. But I've not done it myself that way, so I am no expert.

@TheGirlInTheCupboard: On the nanowrimo website itself, you don't post your full novel. You can put up a synopsis and an excerpt. Then, you just keep entering in your total word count in that top bar and hitting 'update' till you get to 50,000 words (or more).

That help?
-Megan