I wish NaNo had happened one week earlier this year. Then I could've committed to it again. I have a big bunch of word-vomit that needs to be expelled so I can get back to the core stories I am working on. But now, this week, I am just too busy with other commitments (which I wouldn't have made if I'd been doing NaNo). So no NaNo for me this year. The best year ever for me was maybe 2 or 3 years ago? One of the Seattle writing groups - The Hydrophobic Ducks - took over an entire Denny's restaurant, all night. At the stroke of midnight, everyone opened up their laptops (or whatever) and began writing. Any time someone hit a goal they'd yell it out - "a thousand words!", "five thousand words!". It was fun. I wrote until about 5:AM and put down 7k words, I think. Talk about a healthy start to NaNo! Hit your first week's word goal in one night! Bam.