Join the Book Project for a keynote with Vauhini Vara, author of the Pulitzer Prize-finalist The Immortal King Rao, the story collection This Is Salvaged, and the forthcoming Searches, a copy of which is included in this registration. The talk will be followed by a short Q&A.
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Schedule:
5:00 PM: Happy hour with current Book Project members
6:00 PM: Catered dinner
7:00 PM: Vara’s talk, followed by a Q&A
Keynote: “The Long Haul" with Vauhini Vara
We promise, at the Book Project, to give “writers of book-length manuscripts the classes, advice, and moral support they need to draft, revise, and—most importantly—finish.” Here’s what we don’t, and can’t, promise: that our mentees will write and finish a completed, ready-to-publish book within two years. If you’re writing a book and have at times felt frustrated or disappointed that it’s taking as long as it is—whether you’re a Book Projecteer or not—this talk is for you. Vauhini will tell the story of how it took her more than ten years to write each of her first two books (which she worked on simultaneously), and around five years to write her third. Along the way, she learned a valuable and surprising lesson about how to gauge whether it’s going well or not. (Spoiler: It has almost nothing to do with how long it’s taking.)
