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Burning Bridges

The concept of “burning bridges” has been fascinating to me because it’s such a complex social construct. It’s not just the simple act of doing something that severs contact with another party, damaging the relationship so it’s irreparable. There’s a lot of social hierarchy and power involved.
When I was at Red Storm, I had an [...]

17Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 13 comments | Continued
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Update on The Takeover and NfP

The Takeover has NOT podfaded! I went on vacation last week and then my computer had a hard crash and I lost all the stuff I’ve worked on in the past 2 weeks, including the script for episode 4. So I’m working on it as fast as I can.
The good news is that I have [...]

2Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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Letters

When I think about the random things that shaped my childhood, I fear interacting with the Pink Tornado, because I worry an idle comment from me will affect her forever.
When I was in kindergarten, we had posterboards that anthropomorphized letters. The consonants were male, the vowels and Y were female (that always pissed me off.) [...]

24Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 8 comments | Continued
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21 days to a habit?

I call bullshit. The News From Poughkeepsie has been going on for nearly 50 days now, and I still have to remind myself to do it. I remember JR Blackwell told me that on her daily project hit a slump around 29 days or so (Sorry, JR, I don’t remember the exact day) and I’m [...]

8Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 5 comments | Continued
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Fuck

I’ve been pondering this post for a while.
The word is a powerful one. Much has been written about it by stronger writers than me - Carla Ulbrich has the excellent song “If I Had the Copyright On The Word Fuck” - so I won’t go repeat it. But I want to explore some things about [...]

15Apr2008 | Mur Lafferty | 30 comments | Continued
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Etiquette

I’ve hinted recently on Twitter and other areas that I need to make a “proper etiquette for contacting your favorite podcaster” blog post. I was surprised at the response - lots of people were actually for it. I was just letting off steam.
Then I found out that John Scalzi had written something similar, and I’d [...]

10Apr2008 | Mur Lafferty | 19 comments | Continued
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Wasteland - Lessons Learned

I’ve maintained since the beginning that the Heaven series is an experiment. It was just an experiment in several different things at once. Heaven and Hell were written an episode at a time, while Earth was an experiment with putting a soundtrack with a podiobook.
I learned a lot in writing episodically with the first two, [...]

31Mar2008 | Mur Lafferty | 23 comments | Continued
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Blatantly ripping off Eric Rice…

Eric recently posted: Why I’m unfollowing you on Twitter. I think this was an interesting post, focusing mostly on how if you don’t follow each other, you don’t have an open communication because if someone isn’t following you, you don’t see their messages to you. It’s a flawed, although popular, system.
I have reasons I unfollow [...]

3Dec2007 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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Living in the SF Ghetto

I feel like I’m the subject of one of those movies: you know, small town kid, or ghetto kid dreams of nothing but breaking free of the ghetto, finds the big world outside not what s/he expected, and then returns home wiser and ready to embrace their heritage.
I have known for some time that science [...]

18Nov2007 | Mur Lafferty | 2 comments | Continued
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It comes out earlier every year…

I complained about this last year, but feel justified again this year.
Every year Halloween decorations come down and the Christmas decorations go up. Every year. This has been happening since at least the 1960s when they made fun of it in Christmas specials.
People don’t like it. Interestingly enough, there’s enough who do respond to it [...]

11Nov2007 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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