Brief Author Bio:

I've done NaNoWriMo five years now and have cracked 50,000 every year. But in 2006 and 2007 I didn't technically win -- I used the month to work on existing projects which meant that I was technically cheating.

Last year, I started something from scratch, and cracked the 50,000 at halfway through the book. This year, I'm gonna finish the sucker. No purple bar for me.

There's no guarantee I am going to win this year, though. No guarantee that the remainder of the book is going to be 50,000 words and I don't have any other projects in the pipeline that might carry me through.

I'll just wait and see what happens.