How to Write a Novel With Writer Mira Jacob
In this episode, we’ll talk to Mira Jacob, author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing , about how her romance took her ten years and what she learned in the process. We also hear from Lifehacker staff writers Nick Douglas, Patrick Allen, and Beth Skoreka about National Novel Writing Month (also known as NaNoWriMo), where authors commit to writing 50,000 words in 30 days. Beth completed NaNoWriMo 10 times; Patrick tries it for the first time this year. Nick is investigating why someone did this.
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In this episode
- NaNoWriMo obviously
- Sleepwalking Dance Guide
- Flowchart of the World for People Protecting by Speaking of Racism
- Also from Mira: 37 challenging questions from my mixed race son
- How Mira’s mom influenced her letter
- Why you should depict your art as a topographic map
- How walking changes the brain
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Every week we want to tell you about the improvements we have made to our lives. This week we talked about the Guitar Toolkit , cooking in advance, and dancing in and of itself.
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