A week and a half is all that's left until November. If you know why November 1st is the most feared and anticipated date of the year, you win at life. If you don't, well, you obviously fail, quite hard.
November 1st is the starting date for National Novel Writing Month, or, NaNoWriMo. Info found here: www.nanowrimo.org
Go there, be amazed, sign up. It's awesome and you will love yourself forever if you manage to do it.