You should do NaNoWriMo! It's a great motivator. www.nanowrimo.org - I've done it two year snow, and finished each year. The stories were crap, of course, but at least they were written.
I'll alert you now so you can start planning... ;-) and you're on the ping list, hehehe.
hmm intersting. How do they know you did not start before Nov 1?