My English teacher actually recommend the class to be a part of NaNoWriMo. Didn't even know she knew about it. My whole class was hyped lmao
If you want to join, which I hope you do:
https://nanowrimo.org/about
It's not really a competition with others, it's more of a competition for yourself? Wanna try to make a new story that's 50,000 words? Here you go!
(BTW NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month - November.)