For all the newbies - A word of caution: be patient in recording your word counts in the first week in November. Usually the site is bogged down with the many entrants to this adventure trying to input their word count and post on the forums and write PM's that it gets REAAAALLY slow.
It'll pick up in the later weeks in November, so if you find yourself wanting to hit the computer because its taking so long, just take a deep breath, go do something else, and come back. Or, log your new word count in a word processing document on your computer until you have more time to input it. The word count doesn't get "official" till the last week in November, when people can start "winning" anyway
