Four Things for Your Weekend (1.28.22)
Including Video of a Novel: Day 5
Well, that was a week! Here are a few things to take with you into your weekend:
Registration for our Nine Month Novel class is open and filling up! One of my favorite endorsements from a former student is this one:
“Whatever happens next for me as a writer, I completed the manuscript that has been in my head for 10 years. I owe that completely to the Nine Month Novel class.”
- Beka from Ada, Michigan (Nine Month Novel, ‘21)
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“We often think that blockbuster successes are luck. Maybe it's easier to explain success that way—as a chance happening, a fortunate outlier. No doubt, there is always some element of luck involved in every success story. But Markus Zusak is proof that if you revise your work 200 times—if you find 200 ways to reinvent yourself, to get better at your craft—then luck seems to have a way of finding you.”
Today we talk Madeleine L'Engle, Anthony Doerr, and George Saunders. Madeleine says we should take care, not to be living the life we "ought" to live, but to live our own lives, looking in our own mirrors. To that end, Saunders encourages us to be Defiantly and Joyfully ourselves. What does that look like for you?
Finally, after today, the majority of my Video of a Novel series of videos will only go out to paid subscribers, so if you’d like to continue receiving these each and every weekday, be sure to click the subscribe button!