I’ve participated in NaNoWriMo a few times since 2003. I finished my first novel—clocking in at 85,000 words, it was completed well after the November 30th deadline and is thoroughly unpublishable—gave up on my second about three weeks in, logged a healthy 38,000 words on the third (it’s still sitting on my hard drive), and … More NaNoWriMo and Celestial Chaos update