Anyone here participating in NaNoWriMo?

I'm intending to do it. I've always written in great quantity but in journal form. I have lots of ideas & I want to see what emerges if I let those ideas play themselves out in the form of a novel rather than as explorations which are more like spontaneously flowing, creative essays as has been the case for my journal.

I've made a rough plan & I've signed up with NaNoWriMo. This is my first time. I discovered it too late last year & decided I really wanted to go for it next time. I am looking forward to the writing & to discovering what emerges. It feels like a voyage into myself.

Good luck to everyone who does this. :D

EDIT:

Here are a few more YA people who are getting involved in NaNoWriMo:

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Am...

I'm not officially signing up, but I want to use the month of November to do some serious work on my novel. I've started, but I have a long way to go.

It's such an artificial project. I actually did it one year, had no problem meeting the output, and even exceeded it, but I didn't have a good time. It's really only for people who need significant prodding in order to write. I wouldn't recommend it for real writers.

I'm currently working on an outline and may do it in spirit, but I'm not signing up for it.