2019 NaNowrimo (2)

We met up with our dear friend Grant Faulkner, executive director of National Novel Writing Month , at BookCon . Grant talks about fostering the right creative mindset, building a writing community, and his writing advice. Filmed at BookCon 2019. WHAT WE COVER 0:15 What is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)? 2:14 NaNoWriMo success stories & NaNoWriMo Pitchapalooza winners3:43 Opening up the publishing gates: NaNoWriMo crashes through the gatekeepers and encourages everyone to embrace their identity as a writer. 5:58 Writing advice: writing is about persistence and [...] more

You wrote your 50,000 words (or got pretty close! ). Youre a winner. You felt the high. Now what are you going to do with your precious manuscript? Thats where we, The Book Doctors , come in. For those of you not familiar with Pitchapalooza, heres the skinny: You get 250 words to pitch your book. Twenty pitches will be randomly selected from all submissions. We will then critique the pitches during a live webinar on March 16, 2019 at 12PM PT / 3PM ET [...] more