1 Shakespeare: {checking his email} "Dear Mr Shakespeare,"
2 Shakespeare: "We regret that your manuscript, Hamlet, at 32,253 words, did not reach our target word count."
3 Shakespeare: "However, please don't let this discourage you..."
4 Shakespeare: "... as most first time NaNoWriMo participants never manage to complete their 50,000 word opus."

NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, is an organised event in which participants attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in one month. That month is November. As the NaNoWriMo web site itself proclaims, "the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality."

If Shakespeare had gone in for this sort of thing, Hamlet would have been more than 50% longer and complete drivel...

However, I am not disparaging NaNoWriMo. If you're taking part, that's great. I'd do it myself if I had time. I just thought it'd make a funny comic. I save my withering damnation for MS PowerPoint.