My own take on NaNo.

As you know, Bob, if you've been paying any attention at all, I am not a natural novel writer. My ideas are bite-sized, and so I write short stories. I cheerlead NaNo participants from the sidelines, and I'm always the one going "even if you don't 'win', look at all those words you have that you wouldn't have otherwise."

But now I'm looking at NaNo from a short story writer's perspective. If an average short story is 7,000 words (roughly-ish; over my last seven I've actually averaged 9,000 or so, but that's because the last two were 15,000-word behemoths), then at the end of 50,000 words I would have seven stories, give or take. Of course, they'd be in first draft form, but that's all right. Hell, that's the same number of stories I've written in the last three years combined after taking a hiatus in 2011.

Then I could edit them to within an inch of their lives. I actually like editing, so this is not a hardship. And then I could submit them.

I kind of like this plan. And I think I'm going to implement it in January.