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is upgrade episode 218. My name is Mike Hurley. I'm joined by Jason Snell. Today's show is brought to you by Squarespace, Fresh Books, and

Lunar Display. Hello, Jason Snell. Hello Mike Hurley, how are you?

I am fine and dandy, my friend, but we have an action-packed show today, so let's jump straight

in to our hashtag Snow Talk question.

This question comes from Reed.

It is November, which means it is

nanomo time.

Jason Reed wants to know are you doing nanomo? Are you involved with

nanomo this year? And also what genres have you written in past years for Nenro Raimo projects?

Well I am, so I'm not on the board anymore. I spent a lot of years doing that and finally

have termed out of that. I have thought about doing it but it's been a busy November so far as we're about to dive into. Thanks to Apple and so I haven't.

What I'd like to do is devote time to editing the novel that I'm trying to edit and finish.

So more like Nano Edmo.

Yeah, that's right right which is something that people

have tried to to make a thing in the past. The genres I've written three complete

novel manuscripts. The first one is a basically young adult action adventure with superheroes.

The second one is a science fiction and the third one is a tech industry. a Wow. Yeah, it sounds great. Unfortunately, they're all first drafts and haven't been rewritten and aren't ready to be read by a human being.

Does it not frustrate you that you have these kind of like three novels just sitting there?

It does, I would have liked my plan when I was leaving IDG I was like, oh man I'm going to finish that

novel, but the fact is you as a freelancer as an independent you have to prioritize the paying work. It's very hard to I admire Dan Moran who has has just walled off part of his time for his novel stuff and he has published novels and has more novels on the way that are being

published and he's able to he was able to commit to use that time and that's something

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