How To Write Your First Novel In Your 40s
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
If you know NPR’s Linda Holmes, it’s probably not as a novelist. She’s a pop culture correspondent, she co-hosts NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, and her recalcitrant dog Brian is mildly famous on Twitter.
But she always wanted to write a novel. And at 48, she did. It's called Evvie Drake Starts Over and it is excellent.
“This is what I think my story does actually prove,” Holmes tells Greta on this episode of Nerdette. “The fact that you haven’t gotten something done by a certain point in your life does not mean you’re not going to.”
Listen up ... and then go write that book!
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| 0:00.0 | This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events. |
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| 0:13.6 | Hey just want to warn you this episode is like the tiniest |
| 0:17.5 | smidiest bit cursy so consider this your warning. |
| 0:20.8 | From W beB. E. Z. Chicago, this is Nurdett. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:26.0 | And Nurdett is a show where we talk to your favorite or soon to be favorite people |
| 0:30.0 | and this week's guest is legit, one of my favorite favorite people her name is Linda Holmes. |
| 0:35.0 | She is NPR's pop culture correspondent. |
| 0:37.0 | She hosts a little podcast you may have heard of called pop culture happy hour |
| 0:41.0 | and lucky for everyone on this Green Earth, |
| 0:45.1 | Linda has just written her first book. |
| 0:46.9 | It is called Evie Drake starts over and it is great. |
| 0:51.3 | It's about a woman who, just she decides she's about to finally leave her |
| 0:55.6 | husband, finds out that he's dead, and a Major League Baseball pitcher who |
| 0:59.8 | suddenly loses the ability to throw. |
| 1:02.4 | We're going to talk to her about the book and about what it's like to write your first book when you're like pushing 50. |
| 1:10.0 | So if you listening right now are one of those people who's always thought about writing a book, this episode is totally for you. |
| 1:19.2 | Linda, welcome back to Nurdette. Thank you so much. |
| 1:23.1 | So this is one of those books, like I finished it in the afternoon |
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