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It's coming: the holidays. Rose Himber Howse, a current student in Grub's Novel Incubator, schools us on how to navigate those awkward conversations about that novel you're writing. This post originally appeared on Dead Darlings.

I’m at a dinner party. My partner gestures to me and says to the man we’re making small talk with: “Rose is a writer. In fact, she’s writing a novel!”