Oh, Welcome to the not-old better show. I'm your host Paul Volklezay. As part of our Smithsonian Associates,

Art of Living Series, our guest today on the Not Old Better Show is writer, educator,

blogger, and mentor, Catherine Johnson.

Catherine is well known for so many things, most definitely,

her own writing, which we'll touch on today,

but more so her teaching, mentoring, and helping other writers write,

which is the subject of our conversation today on the Not Old Better show.

Catherine is teaching the day-long course from Smithsonian Associates,

write a novel in a month on October 29th at the Ripley Center.

You can register for the course on our website. You can find it at Smithsonian

Associates.org. But here's a little bit of background about Catherine. She teaches at the Writer Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and she is the

author of more than 40 published novels. You can learn this and more at her website

Write by You.com which will have a link on our site for.

But this is going to be a fabulous program one that's very personally interesting to me. So, register,

bring your pad and pen or a fully charged laptop, and get ready to write your novel because November is Write a Novel Month.

Again, Catherine will be at Smithsonian Associates October 29th,

and November is Write a novel month.

So my math tells me, based on the average novel size of about 50,000 words,

that we're going to be writing about 1,600 words a day.

So get ready.

Let's learn from Catherine.

Please join me in welcoming Catherine Johnson to the show.

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