Nanowrimo and Halloween, together, in awesome succession.
Halloween is by far one of my favorite holidays simply for the excuse to run around in something you would never be able to wear any other time of the year and get candy as a reward. All the wonderful candy. Which you then stock up to eat while you start your Nano novel the next day and supply a constant supply of sugar for the rest of November to help you survive.
On that note, Nanowrimo starts Monday, there is still time to prepare if you're on the fence. If you don't know, in short, Nano is a challenge for anyone to write 50,000 words of a novel in just the month of November. The