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[ISBW] Breaking the Rules

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S19 Ep11
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Which rules must I break, and why can’t beginners break rules too? Bad news: your teachers were right.

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I Should Be Writing credits: production by Summer Brooks, theme song byJohn Anealio,
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February 28, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 11 | murverse.com
“Breaking the Rules” by Mur Lafferty
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[ISBW] Is Realism Enough For Good Narrative?

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S.19 Ep. 10
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Good News Good News

  • Station Eternity gets a second printing!
  • Chaos Terminal can be pre-ordered!
  • Team Rejection Count: 26

Main Topic: How believable does fiction need to be?

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I Should Be Writing credits: production by Summer Brooks, theme song byJohn Anealio,
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February 23, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 10 | murverse.com
“Realism Isn’t Good Narrative” by Mur Lafferty
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[ISBW] Gardening Your Writing Life

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S.19 Ep.9
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How quickly does a succulent grow? How quickly do you think your writing will grow?

My kid’s “Thicc Boi” is lower left jade.

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February 21, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 9 | murverse.com
“Gardening Your Writing Life” by Mur Lafferty
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[DD] Do AIs Dream of Electronic Submissions? With Valerie Valdes

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Streamed live, February 27, 2023

S9 Ep2
I’m joined at the last minute by Valerie Valdes, my co-editor at Escape Pod! We talk about the whole AI thing and look to shed some light on the current kerfuffle.

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February 27, 2023 | Season 9 Ep 2 | murverse.com
“Do AIs Dream of Electronic Submissions?” by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace
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[ISBW] Brown M&Ms and Adverbs

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S19 Ep08 
Good News Good News

Main Topic: Are Adverbs Really That Bad?

  • About that writers advice that says “get rid of adverbs”… it goes deeper than that
  • Pay attention to your work, and your sentence structures
  • Shake the story up by making your characters want something; small or personal can be better than epic and world-shattering
  • Jason Pargin TikTok

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I Should Be Writing credits: production by Summer Brooks, theme song byJohn Anealio,
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February 16, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 8 | murverse.com
“Brown M&Ms and Adverbs” by Mur Lafferty
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[ISBW] 34 Minutes

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S19 Ep07 – Recorded (as opposed to livestreamed)

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Good News Good News

Main Topic: Get Bored for 34 Minutes

I know you’ll be shocked, but I did a Google search AFTER I recorded this, and found that the writer I reference in this podcast is Eugene Schwartz. You can read more about his method in this post.

His magic number was 33, but I’m keeping mine at 34 because he was a copywriter and I write fiction so they’re one different. (It’s like being one louder.)

This Is Spinal Tap Youre On Ten GIFfrom This Is Spinal Tap GIFs

Getting bored is important to creating, except that technology has not allowed us to be bored for at least the last 15 years. So you gotta work at it.

I also consider my upcoming milestone birthday.

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February 14, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 7 | murverse.com
“34 Minutes” by Mur Lafferty
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[DD] Ethics in Publishing

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Note- My mic had a lot of problems here, I tried to fix it, but it’s noticeable.

S9 Ep1

Streamed live, February 6, 2022 – next livestream is Feb 27, 2023

How do we, the little guys, handle things like strikes and other uncomfortable news?

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February 6, 2023 | Season 9 Ep 1 | murverse.com
“Ethics in Publishing” by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace
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[ISBW] Words to Throw Away

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S19 Ep06

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Main Topic: There are No Wasted Words

  • Do you really need that many words before you get to the real story?
  • “In media res” isn’t always the best way to start the action/story
  • Ask questions of your characters to get going
  • Free writing can loosen the words/ideas
  • Playing with character names
  • Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe
  • All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka (Edge of Tomorrow is movie adaptation)

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February 9, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 6 | murverse.com
“Words to Throw Away” by Mur Lafferty
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[ISBW] Emotions Rear Their Ugly Head

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S19 Ep5

Good News Good News

  • Chaos Terminal final draft is accepted!
  • Team Rejection Count: 19

Main Topic: Emotions Again

  • I talk about how emotions trip us up- and by “us” I mean “me” time and time again.
  • Brave Mur on TikTok

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February 7, 2022 | Season 19 Ep 5 | murverse.com
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[ISBW] Ask Evil Mur

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S19 Ep4

Good News Good News

  • Station Eternity gets a second printing!
  • Team Rejection Count: 19

Main Topic: Evil Mur Appears and Shares Essential Writing Advice

  • The endless fount of writing wisdom that is Evil Mur was summoned for her first appearance in 2023, and she answers all questions about short stories and novels, submitting to agents, managing plots and characters, crafting realistic dialogue, and more
  • Copyediting and Proofreading (this is the program Summer the producer is in now):
  • ACES: The Society for Editing

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I Should Be Writing credits: production by Summer Brooks, theme song byJohn Anealio,
art by Numbers Ninja, site design by Clockpunk Studio and hosted by Libsyn (affiliate link) (or you can get it via Patreon).
February 2, 2022 | Season 19 Ep 4 | murverse.com
“Ask Evil Mur” by Mur Lafferty
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