Sometimes writers just need a pep talk. Fortunately, Grant Faulkner’s new book provides 52 of them. Faulkner, the author of Pep Talks: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo and Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month joins the GrottoPod this week — on the eve of NaNoWriMo — to discuss the process of writing a novel in one month, his hopes for his new book, his role in the rising popularity of flash fiction and his own writing. If you’d like to try your hand at writing a novel in 30 days during the month of November, check out the official NaNoWriMo website.