NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month - occurs each November. 

The objective of NaNoWriMo is to write a 50,000 word novel in a single month. 

I have participated successfully in NaNoWriMo each year since 2003. 

It has been a wonderful experience for me, rekindling creative energies and connecting me with other writers in my area.

I also participated in the inaugural Script Frenzy event, where the goal was to write a 20,000 word screen play in June of 2007, and in the subsequent Script Frenzy events from April 2008 and on (the contest was moved to April and the goal was changed from 20,000 words to 100 script pages the second year).