It’s not too late to join NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month. It’s an online project that comes to life November of each year that uses “the magical power of deadlines.” The site claims that if you give someone a deadline — say, someone who has always wanted to write that great Filipino novel one day — miracles can happen. So it’s not about churning out a quality novel in 30 days (30 days!), but it’s about getting it done and encouraging you to get it done because you’re getting it done with more than 60,000 people from all over the world. (They started out back in 1999 with only 21 participants.) Anyone who finishes a novel of at least 50,000 words by the end of the month is a NaNoWriMo winner.

And if you think quantity over quality won’t get you anywhere, past NaNoWriMo winners have actually had their works published.

The deadline to finish a novel is November 30. Register to write your novel now at the NaNoWriMo site.