The Sixty-Second Pep Talk

What is the Sixty-Second Pep Talk?

(Note: The Sixty-Second Pep Talk was created in 2006, my last year as municipal liaison for Korea. I am keeping it online for anyone who might find it useful. With the exception of the contact info, the text that follows has not been changed since these podcasts were first posted.) The Sixty-Second Pep Talk is a brief daily podcast for participants in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). It may include any of the following: tips for getting through November, short motivational speeches or quotations, a “word of the day” to use in your novel (free of charge!), and/or peanuts. It is not intended to change your life, just to give you a little motivation when the idea of writing a novel in a month becomes overwhelming.

Who is behind this?

The Sixty-Second Pep Talk is the work of one slightly deranged individual, known on the NaNoWriMo forums as Suho1004, though there are some who call me... Charles. I am both the municipal liaison for Korea and a NaNoWriMo participant. Questions and comments about the Sixty-Second Pep Talk can be sent to me through my main site contact form.

When can I hear the pep talk?

The podcast is a daily event. When each day’s podcast will be available is a more complex issue. Since this podcast is primarily for my group here in Korea, I’m going to try to make sure that the podcast is online by morning here at the latest. Unless you live in one of the few time zones east of Korea, this will be even earlier in the day for you. You might even find that the podcast is a day early where you live. That’s why there’s a list of all the podcasts at the bottom of this page, just in case you miss one. The last podcast will be on 30 November, 2006.

Why are you doing this?

Apparently writing a 50,000-word novel is not enough of a challenge for me. Seriously, though, I’m mainly doing this because I want to do something for my group here in Korea. I have a microphone and the necessary software, and I figure that if I can motivate myself enough to write 2,000 words every day for a month (I’ve done it successfully the past two years), I can motivate myself enough to do a sixty-second podcast. And, to be perfectly honest, I think doing a motivational podcast will in turn help motivate me, or at least help keep me partly sane.

Where can I learn more about NaNoWriMo

Well, you probably noticed the link up there toward the top of the page, but just in case you missed it, here it is again: the National Novel Writing Month official website. A good place to start here is probably the FAQs.

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