If you are going to do NaNoWriMo this year, mazel tov. If you are like WTF is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, in which one, as the name suggests, writes an entire-ass novel in the month of November), it’s not too late to do it if it’s a thing you want to do. Also? You don’t have to write fiction. You can write whatever you want. (I’m going to tackle a nonfiction project this year. I do what I want and so can you.)
But, either way, allow me to plant these thoughts in your head:
NaNoWriMo is extremely good for training yourself to write without editing and get it all down on paper and worry about editing later. If you tend to stop and screw around and overthink your writing and derail yourself, I highly recommend it for that reason alone.
But, for some folks, the pressure to get 50k words banged out is too much, and if they come in at 49,999 words on the final day of November, somehow that’s a failure in their minds. That is the literal opposite of a failure, but if you tend to be all or nothing in your self-pressure tactics, remind yourself that even attempting it is a win and it’s all for fun.