National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo for short, is an international (yes) event where you write a 50,000 word novel sketch in the thirty days of November. I've finished it about five times in previous years and failed to finish about equally many times as I got less motivated and had more distracting stuff going on.
Just as a announcement, I cheated this year and drew instead of wrote, making my
project about drawing a practice version of
that fan webcomic I'm planning. I counted one "picture" (a character or notable background or the like) as a thousand words. I only finished the first extended scene and a few random panels from elsewhere in the story... but I got practice and brought the project one step closer to actual completion. And I finished the so-called 50,000 words.
I'm too afraid to promise yet, but really do intend to make it so that there will be an actual webcomic one day.