In Episode 56 Gen and Jette talk all things writing for National Novel Writing Month! We talk about books that inspire us, discovering what we like to write, and how making this podcast has helped us grow as writers. Congrats to the all the NaNoWriMo 2020 writers who hit their 50k word goals and shout out to all those who didn’t, but finished with more words than which they started.
Show Notes
Apologies if you can hear a dog barking in the background, Gen’s room is not soundproof and one of her neighbours has a loud dog.
Fun drinking game: take a shot every time we mention Paper Houses (we’ll be talking about it forever).
Gen mentions Supernatural, of course.
*whispers* Jake Gyllenhaal
If you have a journaling practice, please tell us about it. We don’t know how to do this thing!
Books and Authors Mentioned
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes by Elisa R. Solan
Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier
Fauna by Christiane Vadnais
You Are Not What We Expected by Sidura Ludwig
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Nocturnal Animals by Austin Wright
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Theft By Finding by David Sedaris
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Another Country by James Baldwin
Toni Morrison
Courtney Summers–Sadie, The Project
Jedidiah Jenkins–To Shake the Sleeping Self, Like Streams to the Ocean
Elizabeth Acevedo–The Poet X, With the Fire on High, Clap When You Land
Chuck Palahniuk–Fight Club, Damned, Doomed, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
