I have good news for you if one of your goals is to write a novel - it's almost November, and that means it's time for another National Novel Writing Month.  What is NaNoWriMo (that's what all the cool kids call it), you ask?

National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30. Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved. Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.

While the official event is geared around writing a novel, there's no real reason why you couldn't opt to write some other type of book during the same period.  The great thing about NaNoWriMo is the excitement, motivation and support it generates for those who are participating.

And just so you don't have to do the math yourself, 1,667 words per day will get you to the finish line on time.