The news articles are just starting to be churned out for NaNoWriMo.
Novel challenge for writers. It's just like the BBC to emphasize that people have gotten published from their Nano efforts. This will only serve to disillusion people with hopes that National Novel Writing Month will jumpstart their writing careers. Sure, I'm a serious writer, but I take Nano as it is--something fun to do during November.
Want to write a novel? Really quickly? This article is more in the spirit of the thing although I wouldn't go so far as to write out every acronym or quote government documents.