The Trophies of NaNoWriMo, with AJ Mac

<p class="p1">Follow this link to check out the book The Gem State Siege:</p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1"><a href= "https://amzn.to/3yDtVDn">https://amzn.to/3yDtVDn</a></span></p> <p class="p1">Become a patron to Writing in the Tiny House today!</p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1"><a href= "http://patreon.com/writinginthetinyhouse">patreon.com/writinginthetinyhouse</a></span></p> <p class="p1">The following is a transcript of this episode. The complete transcript is available on the show’s website.</p> <p class="p1"><span class="s2">[00:00:00]</span> <span class= "s3"><strong>Devin Davis:</strong></span> Are you ever worried about writing a large amount of text in a short amount of time? Then you need to listen to AJ Mac, author of the book The Gem State Seige. He wrote the entire thing during NaNoWriMo of 2020, and he is our guest today on Writing in the Tiny House. Hello, hello, hello! And welcome to the show.</p> <p class="p1"><span class="s2">[00:00:47]</span> Welcome back to the show. I am Devin Davis, your host, and I am the guy living in a tiny house to show you all of the different ways, regardless of how busy you are, that you can write that book. We focus mainly on fiction, at least the majority of these episodes. Today we have a person that I have been so excited to get to know. His name isAJ Mac.</p> <p class="p1"><span class="s2">[00:01:11]</span> His first name is actually Aaron. And it's not in the interview. So I get to share a little tidbit before we play the interview. I actually met Aaron on a Facebook group looking for a critique partner. I had no idea what he had done. I had no idea his story or the process that he had taken to write this thing, but we exchanged first chapters many, many months ago and he critiqued my first chapter.</p> <p class="p1"><span class="s2">[00:01:40]</span> I critiqued his first chapter. It was a great experience. And then like, a couple months later, I realized that his book was being released and was in print. So today we have AJ Mac, author of the book The Gem