Podcasts, Projects, rerun

No Magic Bullets – Rerun

No Magic Bullets
What? No. Not the blender.

DESPITE what I posted yesterday about the power of placebos, you still have to do the work, sorry to say. Ain’t nothing out there going to do it for you. And around this time you have to remember that. Just also remember you’re not alone.

Goal: 18,333

  • I’ll be doing my writing this year at 4theWords.com (if you want you can use my referral code SKYOA08774)
  • Support this show on Patreon! 

Housekeeping:

  • This year November will feature daily reruns of past NaNoWriMo episodes – some of which were only released to Patreon supporters! Tune into Twitch.tv/mightymur for live write-ins on Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30 EST.

November 11, 2020 | Rerun from Nov. 12, 2017
Season 16 Ep 45 (Episode 542) | murverse.com
Copyright 2020, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License

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WMUR – The People’s Placebo – Rerun

The People's PlaceboDo you need that cup of tea, or the right music, or your lucky Star Wars figure to sit beside your monitor so you can imagine it saying “you got this!”? Whatever feather you need to hold in your trunk, if it helps you get the words done, then don’t knock it.

Goal; 16,666

  • I’ll be doing my writing this year at 4theWords.com (if you want you can use my referral code SKYOA08774)
  • Support this show on Patreon! 

Housekeeping:

  • This year November will feature daily reruns of past NaNoWriMo episodes – some of which were only released to Patreon supporters! Tune into Twitch.tv/mightymur for live write-ins on Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30 EST.

November 10, 2020 | Rerun from Nov. 12, 2017
Season 16 Ep 44 (Episode 541) | murverse.com
Copyright 2020, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License

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Write Whenever You Can – Rerun

write whenever you canI talk about good old Chuck Palahniuk and how he wrote Fight Club. If it’s good enough for the NYT Bestseller then it’s good enough for you!

Or something more motivational…He wasn’t a bestseller when he wrote Fight Club, you know.

Goal: 15,000

  • I’ll be doing my writing this year at 4theWords.com (if you want you can use my referral code SKYOA08774)
  • Support this show on Patreon! 

Housekeeping:

  • This year November will feature daily reruns of past NaNoWriMo episodes – some of which were only released to Patreon supporters! Tune into Twitch.tv/mightymur for live write-ins on Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30 EST.

November 9, 2020 | Rerun from Nov. 17, 2015
Season 16 Ep 43 (Episode 540) | murverse.com
Copyright 2020, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License

Personal

It’s November, so the kettle needs to be on 24/7

It is NaNoWriMo time, the time we must write an awful lot, and we usually need coffee and/or tea to get by. And I have coffee and tea to recommend.

First, tea! I heard Adagio Teas allows fandom blends, and so I started working on my own blends for NaNoWriMo. I have two high caffeine blends (Morning Pages and Sprint!), two green tea blends (Reread and Writer’s Block), and two herbal blends (Dream Storm and Earned Rest.) I’m fond of the Writer’s Block and the Morning Pages, myself, and the Sprint! tea is a smoky blend not for the faint of heart.

ISBW blends at Adagio Teas

Full disclosure: I will get points toward more tea on the site. But the cool thing is that when you make your own blends, you can choose a chari-TEA (hahah) to support with your blend sales. I’ve chosen NaNoWriMo.org. 

Grinding CoffeeI have also been buying a lot of coffee from Grinding Coffee, a black, LGBTQ+ owned coffee small business. I tried it out to support the business, and I kept buying because they have some amazing blends. (I recommend their cold brew blend and their Mexican Chocolate blend.) Now I am an affiliate with them, and you can get a 13% discount with the code MIGHTYMUR.

These are companies I use frequently, and I fully endorse.

Podcasts, Projects, rerun

WMUR – Nonlinear Writing – Rerun

Non linear writingPodcast for November 8, 2020: Write whatever scene is in your mind. Don’t worry about whether it follows the last scene, or even if it’s got the right characters. Just get the words down, and fix it in edits!

Goal: 13333

  • I’ll be doing my writing this year at 4theWords.com (if you want you can use my referral code SKYOA08774)
  • Support this show on Patreon! 

Housekeeping:

  • This year November will feature daily reruns of past NaNoWriMo episodes – some of which were only released to Patreon supporters! Tune into Twitch.tv/mightymur for live write-ins on Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30 EST.

November 8, 2020 | Rerun from Nov. 6, 2017
Season 16 Ep 42 (Episode 539) | murverse.com
Copyright 2020, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License

Podcasts, Projects, rerun

Filler- Rerun

Filler! - Rerun
art by Fiona Van Verth

Podcast for November 7, 2020: Now is the time to pull out all your description: food, drink, color, touch, adverbs, adjectives, spelling out contractions, etc. All of that and more. Get those words in, by any means necessary!

Goal- 11666

  • I’ll be doing my writing this year at 4theWords.com (if you want you can use my referral code SKYOA08774)
  • Support this show on Patreon! 

Housekeeping:

  • This year November will feature daily reruns of past NaNoWriMo episodes – some of which were only released to Patreon supporters! Tune into Twitch.tv/mightymur for live write-ins on Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30 EST.

 

November 7, 2020 | Originally posted November 11, 2015 |
Copyright 2020 Mur Lafferty, BY-NC-SA
murverse.com

Podcasts, Projects, rerun

Distractions – Rerun

Should have run November 6. Considering how distracted/low energy I’ve been this week, I figured getting back to the daily show with a distractions episode was appropriate. Catching up with a lot of episodes today.

Goal- 10,000

My wordcount- …not 10k

  • I’ll be doing my writing this year at 4theWords.com (if you want you can use my referral code SKYOA08774)
  • Support this show on Patreon! 

Housekeeping:

  • This year November will feature daily reruns of past NaNoWriMo episodes – some of which were only released to Patreon supporters! Tune into Twitch.tv/mightymur for live write-ins on Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30 EST.

November 6, 2020 | Episode 537 | Rerun from Nov. 4, 2015
Copyright 2020, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License
murverse.com

Podcasts, Projects, rerun

Comparing Yourself to Others – Rerun

TL;DR – Don’t. But the podcast is cleverer than that.

Your wordcount is your own and that’s OK.

Me, I’m dealing with a lot of intensity with current events and confusion with my WiP. I’m behind. But I don’t care. I am moving on the story and that’s what matters.

Goal: 8333

Status of Mur’s project: PUPPET:

5160 / 50000 words. 10% done!

(You can get your own wordcount widget here.)

  • I’ll be doing my writing this year at 4theWords.com (if you want you can use my referral code SKYOA08774)
  • Support this show on Patreon! 

Housekeeping:

  • This year November will feature daily reruns of past NaNoWriMo episodes – some of which were only released to Patreon supporters! Tune into Twitch.tv/mightymur for live write-ins on Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30 EST.

November 5, 2020 | Episode 536 | Rerun from Nov. 10, 2017
Copyright 2020, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License
murverse.com

Podcasts, Projects, rerun

Characters, PCs, and NPCs – Rerun

Podcast art, female fencer silhouette - Characters, PCs, and NPCs, NaNoWriMo 2020We are back with our 2016 fantasy RPG, and we discuss the importance of both PCs (aka Player Characters, aka the important people in your stories) and NPCs (the spear carries and the cashiers and the red shirts and those troopers that Star Wars heroes have no problem killing but they can’t kill the actual evil Sith Lord because that’s WRONG. Ahem. Tangent.)

Goal: 6666

Status of Mur’s project: PUPPET:

4290 / 50000 words. 9% done!

(Posting two in a row. I’ll write when I am done with this posting. You can get your own wordcount widget here.)

  • I’ll be doing my writing this year at 4theWords.com (if you want you can use my referral code SKYOA08774)
  • Support this show on Patreon! 

Housekeeping:

  • This year November will feature daily reruns of past NaNoWriMo episodes – some of which were only released to Patreon supporters! Tune into Twitch.tv/mightymur for live write-ins on Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30 EST.

November 4, 2020 | Episode 535 | Rerun from Nov. 10, 2016
Copyright 2020, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License
murverse.com

Podcasts, Projects, rerun

WMUR- Bike Brothers! What Can Break? – Rerun

WMUR RadioBack in 2017 my NaNoWriMo MO was to spoof on radio shows. This is my Car Talk homage. Our characters don’t like it when things break, but our stories need stuff to go wrong, or else there’s no story!

Goal: 5000

Mur’s status of Project: PUPPET

 

4290 / 50000 words. 9% done!

(Getting there. And you can get your own wordcount widget here.)

  • I’ll be doing my writing this year at 4theWords.com (if you want you can use my referral code SKYOA08774)
  • Support this show on Patreon! 

Housekeeping:

  • This year November will feature daily reruns of past NaNoWriMo episodes – some of which were only released to Patreon supporters! Tune into Twitch.tv/mightymur for live write-ins on Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30 EST.

November 3, 2020 | Episode 534 | Rerun from Nov. 4, 2017
Copyright 2020, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License
murverse.com