The National Novel Writing Month it is going better than I expected. I reached the halfway point (25,000 words) last night and thus I'm ahead and got a buffer of two days worth of writing.
What I learned this year is the value of discipline. If I want to make it, I need to sit down every evening and write, even when I don't feel like it. Most days, the writing starts to flow after some time. I hope I can keep up some sort of routine after Nano, though not with such a high daily wordcount.