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Ah, November—a few things come to mind:

* All Hallows Eve is over (did you remember to confiscate your kids' Reese's
  Peanut Butter Cups? [1]) and it's now All Hallows Day [2];
* the end of the 2020 Presidential Election season (which means that the
  start of the 2024 Presidential Election season will start Any Day Now™);
* my favorite holiday of the year is this month—Gobble Gobble Day [3] (woot!
  can't wait);
* it's the start of National Novel Writing Month [4], where you have to write
  a book of 50,000 fictional words (or is it a fictional book of 50,000
  words?—I get confused);
* it's also the start of National Novel Generation Month [5], where you have
  a computer program write a book of 50,000 fictional words, or real words—
  it's up to you.

I stopped doing NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) years ago, instead
switching to doing NaNoGenMo (National Novel Generation Month) as it's more
my style to have a computer do the hard work for me. I was worried that I had
no idea what to do for NaNoGenMo, but much to my surprise, I found I left
notes to myself for this years NaNoGenMo during last year's NaNoGenMo. I
don't think anyone has done this before, so I don't want to give too much
away at this time since the idea is (at least to me) very obvious (and no,
it's not a novel of 50,000 meows).

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2020/10/31.1
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints'_Day
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving
[4] https://nanowrimo.org/
[5] https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2020

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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