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Timeline of a Novel
I Should Be Writing S17 Ep9

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS
book, people, edits, writing, read, big floppy hat, life, thinking, shambling, person, murder, clone, die, weeks, murders, uk, editor, detective, miss marple, sold

SPEAKER
Mur Lafferty

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Mur   0:32
This is I Should be Writing season 17 episode 9. And I hope everybody had a good slash productive weekend. Still doing a lot of goal focusing and it’s still hard to think big picture when you know there’s little picture stuff that needs to be done. I feel like my evil brain hijacked my ADD meds this morning, because I-I took my ADD meds and then I looked at my budget. And I’ve mentioned it before, I am not sponsored at all but the You Need a Budget app has been pretty much life changing for me in the fact that I finally, finally understand how to budget and how to keep up with the budget. So I’m very aware of my budget now but I was doing something new with it and I decided to spend hours on it this morning. Hours. And while it is important, it is not a priority, like say, writing. Hence the name of the show. Yeah, so what I wanted to talk about is someone was asking in the discord about how a book comes to be from the very, very early moments, and this is gonna be different for everybody. So I’m going to go through my book Six Wakes and I’m going to go through the book I’m working on right now and sort of work out that time period for you. A lot of people say how long does it take to write a book and I never know the answer because there’s a lot of thinking. And then there’s some procrastination in there. Does, do they want to know like how-how much time typing do I do? It’s-it’s very nebulous thing, so I figured I would take you through the life’s, lifespan, or timeline of my books.

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The Language of Hope with Guest Alasdair Stuart
I Should Be Writing S17 Ep8

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS
people, books, writing, podcast, language, piece, stories, called, escape pod, hope, season, alasdair, world, dog, signaling, virtue, writer, talk, biden

SPEAKERS
Mur Lafferty
Alasdair Stuart

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Mur   0:35
This is I Should be Writing season 17 episode eight, and I know that because I checked it a couple of times. I called number five number six. I might have called number seven number six, or number eight. I think I called seven, eight, I was all over the place. This is my attempt to actually get standardized. Still bumpy, but I am so excited. I have with me one of my best friends Alasdair Stewart who is a fiction writer, nonfiction writer, game writer, three time Hugo nominee. Did I get that right?

 

Alasdair   1:06
Two

 

Mur   1:07
Two. Well, you’ve been nominated for the nonfiction twice and then once as one of our major hopes for escape pod.

 

Alasdair   1:15
That’s right. Three times it is. I stand corrected.

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Characters’ Wants and Needs
I Should Be Writing S17 Ep7

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writing, character, people, scene, eligible, hugo, book, baseball, fanfic, year, nominated, harry, podcasts, drove, streams, stay, ursula, listening, bit, game

SPEAKERS
Mur Lafferty

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Mur   0:34
This is I Should Be Writing season 17 episode 7. And I’m trying to keep up with that a little bit better. Got a fancy light box to take pictures of. And I’ve just messed up everything and lost my W. Smooth. That’s what they call me. Anyway, this is the podcast for wannabe fiction writers and I’m your host Mur Lafferty. Hey, Tim. Good to see you. I’m streaming this to Twitch and I think YouTube. We’ll see how well that goes. And this will go into the feed later on, if you just listen to audio via RSS and the Patreon supporters will get it first. So that is the news there. As for what I’ve been up to, I drove to Boston. Again. Thanks to the coronavirus, we are not comfortable with our kid flying so we drove her up on Friday and drove ourselves back on Saturday because there’s nothing to do, because there’s a pandemic. So, none of the typical touristy things, even just like eating at a nice restaurant, no. So that pretty much wore me out for Sunday and yesterday I was still pretty tired. So today I’m trying to get back into it. And I don’t know why I’m wearing the headphones. Because all it did was confuse me when I tried to get Pretzel going while the stream was live. If you’re a newbie don’t do that. No, don’t do that.

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Productivity
(Or Mommy and Daddy are Fighting!)
I Should Be Writing S17 Ep6

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writing, edits, podcast, book, people, story, stream, outline, goal, words, thinking, rewrites, novella, patreon, fanfic, talk, habits, run, episodes, shel silverstein

SPEAKER
Mur Lafferty

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Mur   0:30
Hope y’all are doing well on this Thursday. Just finished your meeting and made it in. Oh, I’m so glad you like the season episode thing. It’s something I discovered Apple wanted. And I don’t have to wonder what number in 500 I’m at. I can just think, well it’s always gonna be season 17 this year and it’s easier to find the number when it’s in the teens and lower. Hello Underpope. Good to see you. I’m still marking somewhere on the file what the episode number is just in case I ever need it. But for now. Yeah, it’s the season counting thing. I just have to figure out how I can go back and edit the existing files, but without flooding everybody’s RSS feed with old episodes. I don’t think there’s a way unless things have changed. Hey HellJack, I’m glad you’re here regardless, good to see you. Anyway this is I Should be Writing. My name is Mur Lafferty if you don’t otherwise know. Right now I’m a chatting and podcast streamer, I want to get back into gaming but it’s not fitting with my schedule right now. So this is a podcast for wannabe fiction writers. I used to say by a wannabe fiction writer but then I published my first book and people told me I couldn’t say that anymore. And while they’re not the boss of me, I guess they had a point. KayKimmy, my cats are disasters and I dreamed and had the worst bus ride ever but otherwise I’m pretty. That’s good. Over the weekend I had two anxiety dreams about the same friends, which was weird. So don’t really want to look too deeply into that. That’ll just be awkward.

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Dropping Truth Bombs
I Should Be Writing S17 Ep5

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS
playing, writing, people, book, animal crossing, project, feel, post, finished, read, mantra, year, writer, happy, song, words, couple, point, watership down, podcast

SPEAKER
Mur Lafferty

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Mur 0:33
And here we are. Happy Tuesday. It’s Tuesday, January 19, 2021 and I’m still here. Can’t believe it. I really can’t. It’s a rough day for me. I wrote 80… 8300 words yesterday. I can’t even count. 8300 words and then I had insomnia at five. So, got up, and finished the novella and turned it in, which is good. But I haven’t had a chance to sleep today. So I’m a little out of it. My hair looks snazzy. Thank you Fyrerider. I have a new overlay for those of you who can see it. And I think it’s a little less distracting. I put my word count up here in the top left. It says two days to go, but I’ve already turned it in, because I know I’ll reach my goal when I do edits, because that’s kind of how I write. Hey Sario. Good to see you. But Santa. Santa is not there anymore. At least he shouldn’t be. I tested new alert things. He’ll be back before you know it. Yeah. Anyway, this is a podcast called I Should Be Writing. I mentioned last week that I was going through a bit of a cold shock, realizing that I’ve not been very good with turning my stuff in lately. It’s partly there’s a lot of stuff going on there. I mean, we’re in a pandemic. There was an insurrection against the capital. I’ve had a lot of problems with migraines in the past 12 months. A lot of excuses but other people managed to get stuff turned in. So, I realized I needed to bust my butt and so I counted this morning and I’ve written 31,000 words this month. And it’s not the end of the month yet and I didn’t start on the first. So I guess I should be proud of that. I’m glad you like the new overlay people. I’m pretty happy with it. Thank you. I’m glad you think that’s a good accomplishment Frigsdaughter. I’ve been still feeling kind of bad about myself because I had to write so much in a binge because I’ve been putting it off, procrastinating. I shifted and the camera went weird, okay. But it’s done. The stuff’s done. The stuff’s into the editors, so that’s a good feeling. But I wanted to talk about, you know this show tries to tell you about a lot of the insecurities and terrible things you feel are normal as a writer, as a creative person in general.

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