I forgot to say that about 15 years ago (from memory) I took part in NaNoWriMo for five consecutive years, meaning I wrote 250,000 words of fiction I would not have otherwise written. The most bizarre part is that when I ceased participating (because I felt I was no longer physically able to type 50,000 words in four weeks), I found that for a couple of years my mind would throw up possible plots and characters every October!
Without realizing it, I had trained my brain to prepare to write a story every November.
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