I have been churning a story around in my brain that I might use NaNoWriMo as an excuse to start it. There's no way I could finish though because I become a perfectionist when writing and it slows me down.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell