NaNoWriMo: Year 5

Hello!
There are going to be two people looking at this blog post (you know, if I ever get people to actually look at my blog posts): those who look at the title and know exactly what I'm talking about, and those who look at the title and wonder whether I slapped my hands on the keyboard or if 'NaNoWriMo' actually means something.
To the latter, NaNoWriMo stands for 'National Novel Writing Month'. It's this crazy, intense event every November where hundreds of thousands of writers all try to accomplish a fantastic and insane task: writing a novel (or 50,000 words of a novel) in 30 days. Sound crazy? It is.
It's also how I've spent the last four Novembers, and how I see myself spending the rest of my Novembers. It's stressful, intense, and a lot of hard work, but it's fun and in the end totally worth all of the blood, sweat, and tears.
For those I haven't scared off, the main website (13+) can be found here, and the website for those 17 and younger, the Young Writer's Program is basically the same thing as NaNo, but you can adjust your word count goal for the month to make it more realistic.
Okay, so... NaNoWriMo starts in a few days and I am currently a mix of excitement and terror. Even though this is my fifth year doing NaNo, there are going to be a lot of little struggles that I'm going to have to overcome this next month. The first of which is that I'm busy. I'm taking multiple AP courses this year, I have a couple band concerts at the start of the month, I'm working towards applying for colleges and making sure that I get all of my stuff in on time, and just a lot of little things that really eat up a lot of time next month.
Also, this month I'm writing a sort of YA/mystery type novel, which is something that I've never attempted before. So even though I'm excited to get started, I'm also terrified because I have no clue how this is going to go down. We'll have to wait until November and see.
For those trying to scramble and get everything together before the 1st, good luck! And to those of us who have prepared as much as we can, let's try not to lose it.
Oh, and for those who think we're crazy for trying... uh... have a nice Halloween?
I'll see you soon!
-Teri