ISBW #140 – Amateur Writing: Good Parts and Bad / Bemis, Enge Interviews
mightymur | 2010/01/25 | 8 comments
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- 00:00:07 ISBW #140
- 00:00:38 GoTo Meeting Message
- 00:01:29 State of the Mur: wrapping up 2009 podcasting content, Jar of Awesome method for choosing among writing projects, editing.
- 00:04:33 Promo: Steve Saylor and Ringtone Feeder present The Caffeine Collection, a dynamic audiobook.
- 00:05:48 Possible ISBW community project: The Artist’s Way– let Mur know if you are interested in participating by commenting here or by email.
- 00:07:50 Today’s topic: the freedom and curse of being an amateur writer.
- 00:12:19 Promo: The Audio Market List–an online audio market resource for fiction writers.
- 00:13:48 Interview: James Enge, author of This Crooked Way. (He can also be found at his Livejournal or on Facebook.
- 00:28:59 Promo: Purgatory, a podcast novel by Tim Dodge.
00:30:26 Interview: John Claude Bemis, author of the middle-grade novel The Nine Pound Hammer. (referenced book: Lev Grossman’s The Magicians. - 00:49:55 Promo: V for Vertigo
- 00:50:32 Feedback: creating an author website or blog if you are unpublished or have only a very small number of credits; naming your characters — Charlie suggests using the names in the New Orleans Public Library’s listing of Criminal Court Defendants 1880-1918; word count; studying creative writing in college; running out of steam towards the end of a novel and how to tie it all together — check out Holly Lisle’s How To Revise Your Novel writing course; an in-depth listener review of Dramatica Pro; a listener has a friend who may be giving up on writing after an agency rejection; choosing which project to start (whichever you pick, write them all down first!); listener Chris follows Ray Bradbury’s advice and tries to write 1 Story a Week for 52 weeks “to get the junk out”; thoughts on books using only one P.O.V.; starting to write a story with characters and no plot yet; translating the behavior of publishing houses (anyone interested in a future podcast on agents?)
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Category: Audio, I Should Be Writing, Projects
“anyone interested in a future podcast on agents?”
Yes! I wold love a podcast on this!
-Chris
I’m really curious about The Artist’s Way, and hope you go ahead with the project. I’ll be there.
re: The Artist’s Way; I’ve been wanting to “do” this book for awhile, but have been waffling. Maybe it’s time to stop doing that. Off to Amazon tomorrow, I reckon!
I have been meaning to work on the artists way for some time. So, your idea sounds great. BTW. The jar of awasomeness sounds like a great idea.
I’d like to be part of your Artist’s Way group. Ten years ago, I started it, quit it, but kept the book thinking I’d get back to it one day.
I would love to participate in the Artist’s Way project as well.
FTR, my copy of the Artist’s Way is somewhere between Amazon and my mailbox.
And I have adopted the Jar of Awesome. My problem of late has been dithering about what to work on, with each project briefly shining in my head until the next one does.
I’m also interested in doing the Artist’s Way!