There's this thing you should know about moms: we tend to be nuts. Not nuts in a salted-good-for-you-but-fattening kind of way, but nuts in a like-to-heap-lots-of-stuff-on-our-plates kind of way.

Case in point? November is the month chosen by Chris Baty for writers around the world to take part in his baby, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month. And even though so many of us mommybloggers have our blogs, our jobs, our kids, our carpools, and our schedule-juggling to keep us busy, we have decided to participate in Baty's crazy scheme and also write a 50,000 word novel in the thirty days that make up this month.

Nuts, I tells ya! Nuts!

So who are these nutty mom bloggers? Well, for starters, there's me. And here's a list of others I know about. Feel free to drop by our blogs and offer us a word or two of encouragement. We need it!

Pewari of Pewari's Prattle is writing her novel and claims she's still sane... just.

Susanne of Diapers and Music is writing her novel and explains why writing is easier for her than writing music, even though she's a musician.

Rachel of A Gaggle of Girls is proceeding happily and without plan:

"Today is the first day of NaNoWriMo (I have actually created characters and put some thought into it) and NaBloPoMo. Apparently some people have actual plans/schedules for the month. My goal is to complete the month. Keep your hopes high and expectations low, there’s one of my mottos! We’ll see how that works."

Jess of Drowning in Kids is writing her novel and has offered the readers of her blog a tiny tidbit, which she prefaces with:

"Please accept this little tidbit from my NaNoWriMo book in exchange for a pass on any more navel-gazing on my part. Actually, this is navel-gazing at it's finest. These words may be slightly familiar to some of you."

I'll let you journey to her post to read the beginning of her NaNoWriMo novel.

Charlene Prince Birkeland of Crazed Parent is doing it, although she's not crazy enough to share it with us!

Mothergoosemouse has admitted that she's a little insane in the midbrain for attempting to tackle both NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo.

Nancy of Just Thinking is writing her novel, too.

Jenny Lauck of Three Kid Circus has under-eye bags from lack of sleep, but dammit, she's in!

"It is the morning of day three, and I'm a mere 2700 words in. I'm finding that it is difficult to create dialog with the Wonder Pets yappin' in the next room. Perhaps I should make my characters a bunch of fuzzy baby animals with fake speech impediments.

Or not."

And Heather Craven of Blogging Baby writes about the project going on in her fourth grade daughter's English class in her post NaNoWriMo for kids. Apparently there are nutty teachers and nutty kids, too!

So whom am I forgetting? Are you doing NaNoWriMo? Let us know!
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BlogHer Contributing Editor Mary Tsao also blogs at Mom Writes.

Image credit: NaNoWriMo.org.