I just found out about nanowrimo TODAY

Never mind, I only started on the 12th and am still at 99 words :P

lol good to know :)
good luck on your novel!

20th November. 10 days left. IS THERE ANY HOPE??? Haha, I think I'll be having fun going crazy on purpose.

There is indeed still hope. Let's say you haven't typed a single word. You'll need to clear 4167 words a day to make the 50k by the last day. Of course the nano server to check wordcount will probably be overloaded at that point, so it might be prudent to clear, say, twice that amount a day.

In order to do that you will need to invoke the spirit of dragoninabottle and her furious typing style.

:D

There is indeed hope. I managed to "write" approximately 50k in the LAST FOUR DAYS of November last year. Sure half of it is recorded and not typed or anywhere readable (unless you listen to the recordings), and the other half is complete gibberish (it's in the voice-to-text program's language), but I consider it my third win. I justify that win by saying that if I could type as fast as my brain went, I'd have completed it And had the document to show for it, and the point of NNWM is to Write, not practice your typing (though it helps) or handwriting if you're doing it or any of it long hand.

There are fabled stories too of other Nano-ers completing 50k in a DAY.
O.O

So push on, friend. We'll celebrate your success at the end, be it crossing the 50k or merely writing 99words more than you would have had you not attempted this at all.

Take heart as well, if you fail miserably at meeting the 50k mark in your first year -- or well any year but in your first especially I think, because first-year winners are by far more likely to hit the sophomore smack-down in their second year -- use it to fire up and push further next year. ;D