ISBW #93 – Confidence
Mur Lafferty | 2008/07/06 | 3 comments
- Playing For Keeps will be out August 25! Order on that day from Amazon.com!
- Hard drive crash. Whee.
- I said I was going to get the podcast out on July 4 – right after recording many bad plumbing things happened, so it’s going out on the 6th. Sorry.
- I wrote a story for JC Hutchins’ 7th Son Obsidian!
- I got Feedback to do a video blurb for PFK!
- I wrote a story for Matthew Wayne Selznick’s Brave Men Run. (And check out the promo)
- Support systems are nice – vital – but at the end of the day, if you don’t have the confidence in yourself, you’ve got nothing. That’s what I’ve been struggling with lately.
- Promo: Jody Whitesides‘ Practical Insanity
- WE HAVE VOICEMAIL! 919 794 8498
- I was interviewed on Adventures in SciFi Publishing, and we have some cool stuff going on very soon in tandem with that podcast! Stay tuned!
- I mention JC Hutchins’ Ultra Creatives interview with Cory Doctorow – excellent interview.
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[...] I’ve listened to about five episodes and found her to be about as human as any writer I’ve heard podcast or interview. Most try to be, expressing the proper sense of awe and humility to the work, luck and craft of published writing, but sometimes it comes across as…well…lip service. Don’t believe me about how sincere she is, listen to one of Mur’s latest podcasts about confidence as a writer. [...]
[...] is where that self confidence that Mur Lafferty described in ISBW# 93 comes in [...]
Hey Mur! Just listened to this and wanted to add my own praise for “Middlesex”. It’s a fun book to read if you want to study 1st person POV. It goes all over the place–at one point, the narrator sees out of his/her own eyes before being conceived. But somehow it all works. Great book