This November, writers across the world are participating in National Novel Writing Month. Organized by a non-profit, its goal is to encourage anyone who has dreamed of writing a book to just do it...over the course of one month. With a little more than a week remaining, NHPR's Peter Biello spoke with writers from New England giving it a try. Elisabeth Jewell of Penacook has been trying to find time to put her feet up on her couch, open her laptop, and work on her novel. "I like fun books, so I said, 'We’re going to write a book about a sky pirate!'" This sky pirate sails on a flying ship and fights other sky pirates. But in her novel, he makes a mistake, and as punishment, he is forced to live a mundane life--that of Steve, the insurance guy. "And that is possibly the worst punishment that you could give this man of action, this bold, suave, debonair sky pirate, is to be like: ‘you are now the grossly normal Steve from insurance.'" Jewell, like so many other participants in what’s
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