Some people may express their woes through pricey hour-long therapy sessions or aggressive squash battles, but many like to do so through 30 days of relentless writing.

If you haven’t heard of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), you may have just discovered the perfect tool to knock out that writer’s block that’s been standing in your way.

This November’s ultimate goal is for you to have completed a 50,000-word novel by 11:59:59 p.m. on Nov. 30. The most important rule to remember is, it’s about quantity, not quality; edit later. As long as you’re sure to write a chunk every day, soon you’ll find the time going by faster, and the pages getting thicker by the hour.

I’m sure many of you cringed at the mention of “edit later.” Sure, it may cramp your grammatical style now, but a week or so in and you’ll find yourself encouraged to take more risks. You’ll be writing about the craziest scenarios with the most bizarre characters, because, if at least for November, you won’t care. This loose method should result in a lot of useless prose, but also a lot of useful, actual writing. You may just impress yourself, and might even come up with something you want to get published.

While you can certainly keep tabs on your writing process on your own, you can always head on over to nanowrimo.org, which houses a forum for writers to interact, and most importantly, ‘My NaNoWriMo,’ a database which will store your work and help you count down until you reach the finish line. Another perk of joining the website: receiving pep talks from renowned authors emailed straight to your inbox whenever you’re feeling particularly consumed with carpal tunnel and frantic thesaurus checks. This year’s authors include Jonathan Lethem, Audrey Niffenegger and Chris Cleave.

In 2010, over 200,000 people participated, and over 30,000 completed the seemingly impossible feat, and were able to add ‘novelist’ to their names.

“Writing a novel in a month inspires incredible confidence in seasoned and first-time novelists alike,” said Lindsey Grant, NaNoWriMo program director. “Completing a draft of the novel they’ve been contemplating for ages gives participants a tremendous sense of accomplishment and leaves them wondering what else they’re capable of.”

Don’t be that person who spends years thinking of the novel they could’ve, should’ve, would’ve written. This November, if you do anything, why not write?