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Georgia Sparling
This is Why We Write, a podcast of Lesley University. Every episode, we bring you conversations with authors in the Lesley community to talk about books, writing, and the writing life. I'm Georgia Sparling, and today I'm joined by Tracey Baptiste to talk about how to be creative under pressure, whether that's because of politics, pandemics, or life's everyday problems. Tracey is the author of the popular middle grade series, The Jumbies, and she has two new books coming out this year. She's a writing mentor and coach and is a faculty member in our MFA in Creative Writing program here at Lesley. She's also a repeat guest. So welcome back, Tracey.
Tracey Baptiste
Hey, Georgia. Thank you for having me back.
Georgia
Yes, we're so happy to have you back. So I think that I've heard a lot, among creative people in the past year, is the idea that, you know, a lot of us are working from home, so we should have written a million books and launched amazing creative projects. [laughs] But that's not really the reality, though. I've read a lot of books, but I haven't written that much. So what has it been like for you as a writer this past year?
Tracey
Yeah. You know, the interruption in routine, I think, has been the hardest part of deal
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Georgia Sparling
This is Why We Write, a podcast of Lesley University. Every episode we bring you conversations with authors from the Lesley community to talk about books, writing and the writing life. My name is Georgia Sparling, and today I've got a special NaNoWriMo episode. In case you haven't heard of it. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month is a challenge that's meant to help writers complete a draft of a novel during the month of November. It doesn't have to be a great draft. But for a book for adults, it means writing about 1600 words a day, I think or 50,000 words for the whole month. So there have been some famous books written during NaNoWriMo: The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern, Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, and Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen are some of the most notable that I could find on the internet. But today, we're going to talk about how to tackle this challenge. And I'm joined by two Lesley alums, Hurley Winkler and Julia Leef. So thank you for coming on the show today.
Julia Leef
Thanks for having us.
Hurley Winkler
Thank you so much for having us, Georgia.
Georgia
I'm so excited to talk about this. So, I feel like this is something that a lot of writers try to do, some succeed, some peter out. But, let's start o
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PiBoIdMo Day 28: Paula Yoo Explores Non-Fiction Biographies (plus a prize!)
by Paula Yoo
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