[FORUM] What do you think of NaNoWriMo?

[rfmcdonald]

National Novel Writing Month just begun, now really having moved on from being a domestic American phenomenon to something worldwide, is a topic that is preoccupying a few of my Facebook friends and more of my LiveJournal friends. One's not taking part because he's actually in the process of writing a novel, another's unsure about how to proceed, while others have cheerfully taken to displaying the bars showing how many words of the target fifty thousand they've written.

Me? I may take part, may not, much depends.

And you? Will you be writing? Do you want to write? Do you think the idea futile, or even silly?

Discuss.