A NaNoWriMo Check-In

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Nov 15, 2023

November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, in which writers of all experience levels attempt to develop and draft a 50,000-word work in 30 days. Matt Bell, creative writing instructor at Arizona State University, author of the novel, Appleseed, and the writing craft book, Refuse To Be Done: How To Write And Re-Write A Novel In Three Drafts, along with Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award-winning author of The Poet X, who also wrote her YA novel, With the Fire on High, for NaNoWriMo in 2013, join to talk about the art of novel writing, the process of speed-drafting, and take calls from listeners developing their own works.

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