737 - Curtis Chen: Using NaNoWriMo to Kickstart Your Novel

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Mignon Fogarty, Inc.

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🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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0:00.0	Gramer Girl here, I'm Minyon Fuggedy and you can think of me as your friendly guide to
0:09.0	the English language, writing, history, rules, and cool stuff.
0:14.0	Today, in honor of National Novel Writing Month, I have an interview with Curtis Chen,
0:19.0	who worked on his first and award-winning novel Waypoint Kangaroo during Nana Rimo.
0:25.0	We also talked about attending conferences and workshops, taking extreme actions to
0:29.9	be able to pursue your creative dreams.
0:32.6	And if you're interested in writing short stories in the speculative fiction genre, there's
0:36.6	some really interesting information at the end of the interview about that.
0:40.8	And now on to the interview.
0:42.6	Hey, Curtis, thanks for talking with me today.
0:48.0	Hey, Minyon, yeah, thanks for writing me.
0:51.3	You bet.
0:52.3	November is National Novel Writing Month, Nana Rimo.
0:56.1	And I recently learned that your first novel, Waypoint Kangaroo, was something you worked
1:01.2	on during Nana Rimo.
1:02.9	Yeah, it was.
1:05.9	It was maybe the fourth or fifth time I attempted Nana Rimo.
1:11.8	And the first couple of times I didn't finish to get to 50,000.
1:16.8	And Waypoint Kangaroo was maybe the second or third novel.
1:21.6	I actually got to over 50,000.
1:24.0	I think the first half was maybe 60,000,000 words.
1:27.7	And it was like a complete story I got to the ending, and I was happy that I had actually
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