Richard MacManus, author of one of my current favorite weblogs, Read/Write Web, has me hooked. He decided to participate in National Novel Writing Month and attempt to write his first novel in 30 days. To finish successfully, you *just* need to have written a 50,000+ word *novel* in the month of November. You win if you do that - quality aside. Here's an informative interview with Chris Baty, the guy behind NaNoWriMo.
Richard is targeting 2,000 words a day and has hit that the first 4 days of November. Today, he has posted the draft of his novel online. It's a gas following his heroic effort, checking his blog every day and, now, reading what he's writing as he goes along. I'm into chapter two and really enjoying it. If you haven't checked Richard's blog and you are the least bit of a closet novelist, check it out!