ISBW #137 – Stop Thinking/Gail Carriger Interview
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- 00:00:07 J.C. Hutchins, author of 7th Son: Descent, presents ISBW
- 00:00:21 ISBW #137
- 00:00:50 GoTo Meeting Message
- 00:01:39 Congrats to all listeners who finished NaNoWriMo!!! State of the Mur: one project completed and sent to agent, working on short stories, blogging for Storytellers Unplugged (go read the December 6th post on FEAR), had book signing earlier in December.
- 00:04:19 Promo: Erin O’Briant’s podcast novel Glitter Girl
- 00:05:12 Today’s topic: Stop Thinking (confidence and self-motivation: see also Carrie Kei Heim Binas’ blog post, What would you do if you knew you could not fail?)
- 00:13:15 Promo: Friday Fables
- 00:14:16 Interview: Gail Carriger
- pseudonyms
- recommended reading: A Thousand Miles Up The Nile
- 00:38:43 Promo: J.C. Hutchins & the print debut of 7th Son: Descent – serialized novel at BoingBoing, audiobook, and other content also available online.
- 00:40:22 Feedback: developing characters based on real life; starting one’s first foray into fiction writing with a novel; Mur’s recording software; translating RPG concepts into fiction; looking for opinions on Dramatica Pro; NaNoWriMo experiences & keeping one’s writing a secret; listener Paul blogs about NaNoWriMo; advances (don’t quit your day job); iPhones and podcasting; feeling like a writer/like a success; feedback to WorldCon; planning characters for a novel; future answers for copyright questions!; Name That Color (risk of thesaurus-style word overload); “technical” writing in fiction and finding the right balance for level of detail; are writers’ groups worth joining?
Category: Audio, I Should Be Writing, Projects
With regard to telling people that you are going to complete some challenging project, I wholeheartedly agree that this is a mistake. I’ve found it to always be the case that the more time a person spends discussing his big plans, the less likely it as that he will ever complete (or even begin) them. Years ago, I trained for and successfully completed a marathon, but I didn’t tell anyone about it until just a few days beforehand (since I had to explain why I would be out of town). I don’t think I could have succeeded if I had used up my energies talking about it.