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Nanowrimo and doctorate

My good teacher friend convinced me to do namowrimo this year.  I am writing a novel of 40,000 by the end of November.  It is a really cool program.  As long as you meet the amount of words, you reach your goal and win.  So, I go into her class once a week to write with her students.  Her class has 18 boys and 2 girls, freshmen.  They are so fun to sit and write with.  Anyway...my novel does not make sense at all, but I figure this year I will just get used to making myself do 1400 words a day and then for next year, I can plan ahead and try to actually structure out what I would want it to be. And I applied to do a doctorate program.  Am I crazy or what?  But how can I pass it up when our next contract at work includes paying for 75% of graduate courses?  Although I am not sure I 100% want to do a doctorate in leadership, I do not really have much of a choice given that my masters was in education.  I guess if I really had a choi...