[Lil'freeper]

you can do it whenever the mood strikes and you have time, but there's no pressure.

Unless you have family hounding you to read it when they visit for Christmas. Urgh. It's maybe a third finished at 50K.

[RosieCotton]

So...tell 'em to deal with it. ;-) Or that you'll give 'em copies of the final draft next Christmas.

Could even print book copies eventually, even if you never try to publish. I used this site to do that book for my little sister. Cost me something like seven dollars for a copy, as I recall, which isn't that bad, really. They didn't have the hard cover option when I did it.

[RosieCotton]

In my case, I just completed my post-NaNo ritual of printing out what I've written, so I can stash that stack o' paper somewhere. Gives me a hard copy backup before I start hacking away at the thing.