Writing a novel in 30 days

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50,000-word novel from scratch in 30

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days it turns out all you have to do is

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write 1667 words a day for a

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month so I did by the way secret is not

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to go to sleep until you've written your

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words for the day you might be sleep

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deprived but you'll finish your

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novel now is my book The Next Great

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American novel no I wrote it in a month

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it's

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awful but for the rest of my life if I

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meet John Hodgman at a Ted party I don't

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have to say I'm a computer scientist no

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no if I want to I can say I'm a novelist

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[Applause]

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so here's one last thing I'd like to

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mention I learned that when I made small

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sustainable