Meg Waite Clayton

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Advice from Steinbeck to Kick Off NANOWRIMO

Today is the first day of NANOWRIMO, wherein some crazy folks try to write an entire novel draft in a month.
I confess that is faster that I can write (and anyway, I’m going on a girlfriend getaway mid-month), but I do applaud the idea of dedicating oneself in a concentrated way for a concentrated period to getting an oar in the ocean that is a novel. If you’re participating this year, good luck!
And here is a little writing advice from John Steinbeck–found in an old issue of The Paris Review piece–to inspire your writing, however you dedicate yourself to it. – Meg
John Steinbeck on writing

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Meg Waite Clayton

Meg Waite Clayton is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of THE LAST TRAIN TO LONDON, a Jewish Book Award finalist based on the true story of the Kindertransport rescue of ten thousand children from Nazi-occupied Europe—and one brave woman who helped them escape. Her six prior novels include the Langum-Prize honored The Race for Paris and The Wednesday Sisters, one of Entertainment Weekly's 25 Essential Best Friend Novels of all time. A graduate of the University of Michigan and its law school, she has also written for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, Runners World, and public radio, often on the subject of the particular challenges women face. megwaiteclayton.com