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[ISBW] Talking About Money

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What happens when you start making money with writing? We’re talking advances, accountants, the sought for “six figure deal” and more. You may not be making money now, but you probably intend to. So let’s talk about what people usually don’t talk about.

Note- I am not an accountant.

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April 29, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 31 (Ep 592) | murverse.com
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[DD] Author 201 With Guest Host Kameron Hurley

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“Author 201” is brought to you in large part by by my patrons , who received an early, expanded version of this episode. You can join our discord Fabulist community with a pledge as low as $3 a month!

Kameron Hurley joins Mur to talk about all the things people just expect you to know when you get to a certain level of authordom. We talk Guest of Honor stuff, readings, talks, agents, and more! Check out Kameron online!

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[ISBW] Why Are Habits So Hard?

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Everyone knows the way to write a book, or get in shape, is to do the thing (writing, exercising, abstaining from junk food, etc) every day, and boom, you’re done.

So why is it so freaking hard?

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The Practice by Seth Godin

April 27, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 30 (Ep 581) | murverse.com
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[ISBW] Flawed Characters

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April Themed Illustrated I Should Be Writing Logo with butterfly, title of episode below. Title Flawed Characters “Flawed Characters” is brought to you in large part by by my patrons , who received an early, expanded version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge as low as $3 a month!

I’ve been working on my protagonist’s flaws, and realizing that the story is a lot easier to write when your character may have flawed reasons driving them, and it gives them something to fight against!

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Writers Helping Writers series (Incl Positive & Negative Trait Thesaurus)

April 22, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 29 (Ep 590) | murverse.com
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[ISBW] How To Pro

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April Themed Illustrated I Should Be Writing Logo with butterfly, title of episode below. Title How To Pro “How to Pro” is brought to you in large part by by my patrons , who received an early, expanded version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge as low as $3 a month!

I was on a panel at Flights of Foundry this weekend where we talked about what made a pro writer, and it turned out not to be what most people would assume. So we unpack that.

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4.29 (Th), 12:30, I Should Be Writing Live
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Flights of Foundry

April 20, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 28 (Ep 579) | murverse.com
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[ISBW] Calling All Imposters!

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April Themed Illustrated I Should Be Writing Logo with butterfly, title of episode below. Title Calling All Imposters “Calling All Imposters!” is brought to you in large part by by my patrons , who received an early, expanded version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge as low as $3 a month!

We’re all imposters, no matter what you think. Trust me. All of us.

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Behind the name

April 15, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 27 (Ep 578) | murverse.com
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[Transcript] ISBW S17 Ep4: Real Talk, or HOW badly does the truth hurt?

I’m excited to be able to offer transcriptions of I Should Be Writing again! I’m starting with the new season’s livestreams and catching up as I can. If you want to help this endeavor, supporting the Patreon, the Ko-Fi , or the Jemi would be a great help.

Real Talk
I Should Be Writing S17 Ep4

SUMMARY KEYWORDS
writing, people, problem, kimmy, good, listening, bullet journal, talking, book, podcast, couple, discord, thinking, bad, project, work, find, prompt, gothic, suburban

SPEAKER
Mur Lafferty

Mur 0:32
This is I should be writing… you know, I meant to write down what episodes we’re doing. I thought I was on top of that. Clearly I’m not. Want to say 554, but I do know it’s season 17, episode 3. So, ha! Eat that! Yeah, that’s my defiance for the day. Chat started early. So welcome everyone. Hey Kaykimmie. Starburutopia has subscribed. Thank you very much. Been subscribed for six months. Wow, that’s awesome. Thank you. And we got Kaykimmie and Suburbangothic and Underpope and Smar. Good to see you all. Underpope’s enjoying the UFOs. Yes 173. Tashatrisby, Todd, good to see you all. Hope things are going okay. I’ve been working on my novella. And that’s going fairly well. A couple of changes, I get stressed doing the streams. And I realized the live writes, I mean it’s a good stress but it is work and stress and something that then I’m thinking if I can remove something from my life, it might be good to de-stress and I realized the live write ins, streaming them live was stressing me out. And the idea of moving them to discord and just doing a group video or audio call where we’re all there and doing accountability and stuff will be better. And so I’m going to be moving that to the discord. I’ll probably be writing here today since it’s already scheduled, but after that it’ll be on the discord. (more…)

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[DD] Matt is Missing! Chuck Wendig Guest Hosts

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orange Ditch diggers logo, MATT IS MISSING, Guest host chuck wendig We’re back! Kind of! Matt is taking some time off to deal with some wolverines or something in Alaska, so I have some other authors coming in to help me out in the meantime until he returns to us. This week we have prolific shed writer and beard grower, Chuck Wendig!

Out now: You Can Do Anything, Magic Skeleton with Natalie Metzger’s art!

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[ISBW] NEWS and Audience Choice

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I’m a HUGO FINALIST! Escape Pod is up for Best Semiprozine, and SB Divya and I got nominated for Best Editor (Short form)! See all the nominees here!

The news went out right before I recorded, so I was a little out of it, hence the flightiness. But the audience pulled me through it!

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April 13, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 26 (Ep 577) | murverse.com
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[Transcript] ISBW S17 Ep3: Weaponizing Language

Weaponizing Language
I Should Be Writing S17 Ep3

SUMMARY KEYWORDS
people, characters, writing, tish, goals, characterization, ditch diggers, words, story, week, book, phased, point, big, person, hug, language, run, weaponized, twitch

SPEAKER
Mur Lafferty

Mur 0:33
It is I Should Be Writing number 554 I think. Season 17, episode 3. And it’s Tuesday. What other numbers can I throw at you? It’s Tuesday, the 11th, maybe? Not sure. Yes, I am totally with it, and up to date. I’ve been still recovering. It’s one of the worst things about something throwing you off your schedule is, well tomorrow when you realize you have work to catch up on, but there was other work to do tomorrow. So you have to work on the work that’s slightly late while making other work late. Or work on the work that’s due that day, and make the first work later. So, dealing with migraine and stress about the country and everything has been like. I finally got my scripts turned in yesterday. That was a big relief. Finally got the computer built and I’m saying that like I did something. My husband wanted to build it so I bought all the pieces. I bought all the pieces and he built it. And it’s the 12th but who’s counting. Thank you Robheinz. (more…)