Life is about taking material goods, and fulfilling our needs on your primitive planet

I'm thinking about trying out National Novel Writing Month this November. But I can't decide if its a great way to spend a month or a loserly way to waste time. I suppose it could be either. I was sincerely excited about the idea, but then I started clicking through some of the 'novels' that people were writing, and they all seemed to be "Last Wizard in the Era of the Dragon LXXI" or "Spaceman Spiff's Krusade Against the Nebulous Space Problem (Part Five in an Epic Series". Which was seriously depressing, although I don't suppose I should have had really high expectations for a National Novel Writing Month (although their t-shirts do come in a really nice shade of brown). Maybe we need a National Don't Write a Really Terrible Piece of Fan Fiction and Call it a Novel Month. (Is it redundant to call fan fiction terrible?)