NANOWRIMO IS LIKE BROCCOLI

Yes, really. It's good for anyone who wants to be a writer, for newbie scribblers or seasoned novelists alike. Writing is a craft learned and improved by –you guessed it – WRITING. And NaNoWriMo is designed to make you do it a LOT. 
NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. That's right – your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to write a novel in a single month! It's a literary marathon to put 50,000 words on paper in 30 days.
Toachieve 50,000 words in a month, you have to write over 1500 words a day. Here's the secret: They will NOT all be great words. In fact, some of them,maybe even most of them, will be CRAP. But crap is good – yes, I say, GOOD –because it's only by permitting yourself to write crap, that you'll freeyourself to write the good stuff. And that means that somewhere in all thatcrap you've produced is GOLD.
Why not just write the gold, you say? Every writer on theplanet wishes he or she could do just that, but it's not possible. No crap = nogold. Of course you won't keep the crap. Smart writers axe a lot of words, manysentences, whole paragraphs, complete scenes and even entire chapters – it'sall part of the gig. And what you're left with?
Priceless.

Sincerely, Dani Harper www.daniharper.com 
BTW - Here's the official site with all kinds of helps and tips: http://nanowrimo.org/And here's the official press release from NaNoWriMo for 2011:http://files.content.lettersandlight.org/nano-2011/files/2011/10/Press-Release-2011.pdf
Question - What do you think of the NaNoWriMo idea? Are you thinking of participating this year?