Words words words words words and more words

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] /boston/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

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