NaNoWriMo: All The Cool Kids Are Doing It

If you're like me, you've been seeing this "NaNoWriMo" word floating around the bookish websites for a couple weeks now, and though you sorta know it means "National Novel Writing Month," everything beyond that gets a little blurry. But Libby Copeland of the Washington Post reveals all:

If, as some people believe, every single person has a novel inside himself, then a lot of people have been wasting a lot of time doing a lot of things other than writing. Chris Baty, a freelance writer from Oakland, Calif., with novelist aspirations, devotes the month of November every year to helping people get those novels out. He approaches the writing process like a crash diet; his goal is to get people each to write 50,000 words in 30 days. The results may be shockingly bad, and will in all likelihood never be published, but that's not really the point...

Well, heck, here I am turning November into National Coffee Table Book Writing Month, and I didn't even know it! If anybody's doing this, and wants to tell us how it's going, or tell us the link to where we can find out, feel free!