That Seemed To Take A While, Didn't It?

Every year when November rolls around, I think, "I should participate in NaNoWriMo!" Then I remember that I'll have just rolled off book deadline season and pretty much already did write 50,000 words in a month - twice - because I'm both a procrastinator and an idiot, and not necessarily in that order. Also for the past few years - and always right before deadline - I've been thrown a monkeywrench. (Is this expression right? Now that I've typed it, it seems all foreign and wrong. And is the m...