Episode 77: NaNoWriMo in progress

Janine and Shannon are participating in National Novel Writing Month this month, in which we're trying to write a 50,000 novel in 30 days. This month, we thought we'd update you about how this fun adventure is going and what a wonderful time we're having embracing imperfection.

Discussion topics include:

• How great it feels to get our writing goal accomplished first thing in the morning

• What a lesson in embracing imperfection NaNoWriMo has been

• The “bad-off” Shannon did with a fellow one-month novelist sharing examples of how bad their novel writing has been

• That it would be impossible to write a perfect in a novel in a month, so the goal is just about getting the words done

• The first rule of NaNoWriMo: You don’t talk about you’re writing about

• The liberation of knowing that no one will read the book in its first draft

• The challenge of not being about to remember what was wrote the day before, even with daily writing

• A key to succeeding at this challenge (or any challenge): prioritizing it

• How NaNoWriMo has helped Shannon with her cartooning homework

• Strategies for keeping up with NaNoWriMo when traveling

• How the lessons from NaNoWriMo can be applied to so many things (virtually anything!)

• Shannon's joy in engaging in a challenge that approaches the edge of what she thinks she can do

• Janine’s love of tapping into her creativity by writing a novel in a month