I love the idea of a National Novel Writing Month.  However, am not overly fond of the concept of trying to write 50K in a month.  I did it once.  And amazingly enough, that book is published.  Though, not after basically deleting most of it and starting over.  What I had was one hell of an outline for a really good story.Someone started the idea of NaNoRevisMo -- basically revise your manuscript in a month.  This me likes.  This is what me is doing for the month of November.  But honestly, it was a timing thing.I try not to get hung up on word count or page count.  I think in terms of scenes.  Goals generally are to write a scene or two a day, depending on the day.  Sometimes more.  The biggest thing I like about NaNo is the celebration of writing novels and the idea is to finish one, so, off I go to write. Later dude.