“That’s really what I got out of it, the motivation I needed to sit down and just get words out. “It’s like exercising in a group,” she says. They can track their progress online, and can also meet up at in-person writing sessions, which Norstrom found particularly helpful. By signing up, participants from around the world – including hundreds of Calgarians, who call themselves “ Wrimotaurs” – get writing tips and support from NaNoWriMo’s local and international websites. Norstrom’s debut book Out of Play began as her NaNoWriMo self-challenge to write a 50,000-word novel during the month of November. “I’d been thinking about the story, but I started writing the first scene on Halloween night that year, and it was published October 27. When Joy Norstrom first participated in 2013’s National Novel Writing Month, she had no idea that her project would be published three years later, almost to the day.
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