Chris Baty accidentally founded National Novel Writing Month in 1999, and oversaw the event’s growth from 21 friends to more than 300,000 writers in 90 countries. Chris now serves as a Board Member Emeritus for NaNoWriMo, and spends his days teaching classes at Stanford University’s Writer’s Studio, giving talks about writing and creativity, helping companies with content strategy, and endlessly revising his own novels. He’s the author of No Plot? No Problem! and the co-author of Ready, Set, Novel. His quest for the perfect cup of coffee is ongoing, and will likely kill him someday.
Craft tip: “When I start a second draft, I don’t ever go back to that first draft that I wrote…I’m in a new draft. I don’t copy things over. It’s all fresh.”
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Hi – I just discovered your podcast thanks to Chris Baty’s tweet of this interview, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I’d love to share this episode with a friend who’s HoH (hard-of-hearing). Would you consider posting the audio file to youtube? YT’s automatic closed caption generator is better than no transcript at all. (or if you have transcripts, I’d love to link – I poked around a bit and didn’t see that option.)
Thanks
Hi Ama! This got hidden from me, I’m sorry! Yes, I’m trying to get to that, getting the YT closed captioning – thank you for reminding me. I’ll ping you when I have it all sorted! Thank you so much!