Dec 8, 2014
This podcast includes a roundtable discussion with Mark Lefebvre, Director of Kobo Writing Life as well as three other Kobo employees (Bessie, Camille and Shayna) who participated in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) 2014.
The round table discussion includes the following:
Mark then discusses the concept of “winning” or “losing” NaNoWriMo, with a thought that, ANYTHING you wrote during NaNoWriMo, regardless of your final word count, means that you are a winner. Drawing from his own personal experience of having “not won” NaNoWriMo in 2006, yet managed to take the project he had started more than half a dozen years ago and work it into a novel that will be coming out in 2015, means the effort he put into it back then was part of the process of getting that novel done, and well worth it.
LINKS:
Shayna's KWL article entitled "Dear Writing: I Hate You!"
The KWL article Shayna wrote about the importance of daydeaming
Mark's appearance on The Writing Show podcast (in 2006) in which he did NOT win NaNoWroMo