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It is November now, and November is a very nice month.  It's No-Shave November (where we, like other mammals, bulk up our winter coats). No-Shave has kindof been transmogrified into Movember (a classy celebration of moustaces) and also NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month).

I've always kindof rolled my eyes at NaNoWriMo, because certainly all these aspiring writers are just wasting their month going crazy, not sleeping, not eating, not going outside...et cetera.  At the end of it all, they're not published, they're failing classes, they're going to sleep for about a week straight, their friends are wondering whether they're still alive...

But I suppose it has some benefits to it:

1) If you're going to be a writer, you have to practice.  It's definitely practice.
2) It keeps all the weird people busy for a whole month! ;)

So...if you're up to the task of writing 50,000 words (which is apparently the definition of a novel) in 30 days (hey, at least they didn't pick February), you still have time to start!  Go, spend 20 hours a day with your computer!  If you're classy, you have a typewriter!

And kudos to you if after NaNoWriMo, you actually continue your novel past the first draft.