Back in the proverbial saddle
(Note: I have a poor understanding of what constitutes a proverb.)

Time to revive this thing for another year. So far we've more than doubled our participation from last year, as we have forty-five people committed. If NaNoWriMo success rates hold (and we exceeded the average last year), we should have seven completed novels emerge from the month. Woo!

For those of you who haven't got a copy of Chris Baty's book, now would be a good time to review the excerpts I posted last year:

Turning Close Friends into Obligations
The Magna Cartas

Once you've done that, let's have some discussion of people's Magna Cartas in the comments section (of this post, not of the Magna Cartas post - that would be dumb).

Let's simultaneously get it started and retarded in here.