I agree, Bethany. I’ve never understood the appeal of NaNo either, BUT it sounds like it depends on the writer’s process. Like ToMo, I’m a lover of language and style; for me, plot and character actually emanate from an initial attention to lagueang–how the sentences sound, their rhythms. I can’t imagine NaNo working for my process because there’s no way I could write so quickly without losing sight of the prose style.