Not sure if “do” is the correct verb here. I would say “participate in,” but that’s too long, and titles are supposed to be short and to the point, yet somehow, they are supposed to give a good overview of the post. Make your titles better than mine so you won’t have to be like me and explain your title in the first 50-odd words of your post.
Anyway… if you read my blog, you know I am a huge fan of NaNoWriMo and the first Camp session of 2013 starts this coming Monday. Here’s why you ought to participate.
1. You can set your own word count. If 50,000 is too intimidating for you, you can go for an easier goal. If you think 50,000 is a piece of cake, you can make your goal as high as 999,999. (Although that’s roughly 33k words per day. If you want to try that, all I can say is good luck and may you keep your sanity.)
2. You can finally get that idea you’ve been thinking about for months out of your head and onto paper. NaNoWriMo events provide you with a deadline, and with the power of a deadline, you can achieve great things.
3. There’s a community of writers who are awesome and supportive. Join one of the “cabins” of Camp NaNo and you can decide whether you want your “cabinmates” to be the same age as you, or if you want to be in a group with people who write science fiction… the choice is yours.
4. Bragging rights. Always the bragging rights. Most people don’t write 50k words, or even 20k words, for that matter in six months, let alone one.
5. You get in the habit of writing every day.
6. Even though NaNoWriMo is “National Novel Writing Month,” you are no longer confined to just writing a novel. For Camp, you can write a script or a book of poems or short stories… basically whatever you want.
7. You don’t need to have a perfect draft (there’s no such thing as a perfect draft anyway). You don’t need to worry about editing or whether you have a comma in the right place or whether your main character’s eyes are blue in one chapter and brown in another. It doesn’t matter. You’re getting your first draft down, so you can have something to work with later on.
In short, you’ve got nothing to lose by attempting (ah, there’s the verb I was looking for!) Camp NaNo in April. Go for it! 
