How to Write a Novel, With Author Mira Jacob

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🗓️ 20 November 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Mira Jacob, author of the novel “The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing,” joins Alice in the studio to talk about how her novel took her ten years to write, and what she learned in the process. We also hear from Lifehacker staff writers Nick Douglas, Patrick Allen, and Beth Skwarecki about National Novel Writing Month (also known as NaNoWriMo), wherein writers pledge to write 50,000 words by the end of November. Beth has completed NaNoWriMo 10 times; Patrick is trying it this year for the first time. Nick investigates why anyone would do such a thing. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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1:10.5	I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of Lifehacker.
1:13.2	And I'm Alice Bradley, Lifehackers Deputy Editor.
1:16.3	And today we're talking about how to write a novel.
1:18.9	Alice, did you know that novels are hard to write?
1:21.3	It seems that way.
1:22.6	I haven't written one, have you?
1:23.8	No, never.
1:24.6	To help us out with this whole novel writing business, we hear from
1:27.6	Lifehacker staff writers Nick Douglas, Patrick Allen, and Beth Squeerke, who talk about
1:33.0	national novel writing month, also known as Nano Rhymo.
1:37.3	Eat that. Melissa does not approve. I don't know. Nanorimo.
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