NaNoWriMo

A little while ago, I checked out a book from the library called No Plot? No Problem! In a nutshell, that's what I was having problems with: I wanted to write something but couldn't think of a plot. And books sans plots=huge waste of time. Don't even get me started about Middlemarch. Blach!
So part of this book, besides giving ideas and pointers of things to consider while writing a novel, is that the author started an event called National Novel Writing Month. He started it with his friends, fellow wannabe writers, and they all got together and wrote a novel in a month. Now, it wasn't a GOOD novel (and I'm not sure this author ever published a book besides No Plot? No Problem!), but sometimes it's satisfying to just complete SOMETHING.
So I have signed up to write a novel this coming month. It will not be good. It will be long and wholly unedited. At places, it will sound like the random ramblings of an incoherent eighth grader, and at other times it will have descriptions that put even Dickens's to shame in their length and sheer impenetrability. And I might even use words like impenetrability. So ha!
But I just wanted to let you know that I WILL be finishing a novel this November. Come join me! If you want to do this too, just go to their website and sign up. If you reach a certain word-count (like 50,000), it counts as a novel and you "win." And then you spend December and the following months editing it. You should do it too. We can be winners!
On the other hand, my school is hosting a Biggest Loser competition. That's one I DON'T want to win. ;) Who wants to be a loser?! I'm gonna spend the month sitting on my couch WRITING.