Did you read all our Pep Talks last year? Although we’re past...

Did you read all our Pep Talks last year? Although we’re past November, author Emily X.R. Pan’s Pep Talk is still full of excellent writing wisdom. Read the full Pep Talk here!

Image description: A illustration of several stacked pieces of paper with yellow sparkles, with the text: “NaNoWriMo: “The whole point of NaNoWriMo is to raise our swords and charge forward and cut aside impostor syndrome. The whole point is just to get new sentences down on the page.” —Emily X.R. Pan”

Emily X.R. Pan is the New York Times bestselling author of The Astonishing Color of After, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, longlisted for the Carnegie Medal, and the recipient of the APALA Honor Award and the Walter Honor Award. The Wall Street Journal named it as one of the top twelve books of the season, and it was featured on over a dozen “Best of 2018″ lists, including ones by NBC News, Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, and Bustle. Pan has been awarded residencies at Djerassi (2017) and Caldera (2019), was the founding editor-in-chief of Bodega Magazine, and is co-creator of FORESHADOW: A Serial YA Anthology. Visit Emily online at exrpan.com, and find her on Twitter and Instagram: @exrpan.

Emily X.R. Pan

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