NaNoWriMo/YMMV

• Hilarious in Hindsight - Typos, grammatical errors, and other flubs are lovingly christened as "Nanoisms".
• Memetic Mutation: Persimmons and "perma-persimmons" originate from a misspelling of "permissions", meaning to allow independent NaNoers to publish select Nanoisms in print.
  • Not to mention the "plot ninjas" and "plot kittens" that everyone decided they liked better than plot bunnies.
• Padding - As mentioned above, there are many, many ways to inflate one's wordcount without necessarily contributing to one's plot development. Such as:
  • Removing contractions ('do not' vs 'don't').
  • Giving characters multi-word names or fanficul titles and insisting on a Full-Name Basis (or simply repeating them often).
  • Having a character sing along to a song on a radio, or recite lines from a play/novel/movie.
  • Introduce a new character and have them exchange names with everybody. The larger the group, the better.
  • Giving characters particular Verbal Tics, like stuttering, to up your wordcount. (paraphrased from No Plot? No Problem! "Give your character a stutter! Not only will it allow you to double all their dialogue, but everyone else in the story can spend pages wondering where the stutter came from!")
  • "Never delete anything. If you can’t stand to look at it, just change the font to white and keep going." (from a 2011 pep talk by Erin Morgenstern)