It’s no secret, the mind hides from hard things. Under the guise of self preservation, it shuts out the difficult, the demanding, the uncomfortable. The novelist faces all this and more. The mere thought of sitting down to write 1,667 words a day for an entire month sends red alert shivers up and down one’s spine. On this, the night before NaNo, the Pod Squad attempts to subdue these alarms, suppress their inner editors, and silence the sense of doom writing subsumes.

This episode is brought to you by Lazy Larry and the Halloween costume of the year: Socks!