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[DD] Tools with Guest Hosts Ursula Vernon and Diana Rowland

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New Ditch Digger logo with shovel and ink “Tools with Guest Hosts ” is brought to you in large part by our patrons, who received an early, expanded version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon as low as $1 a month! You can also support at Jemi or Ko-Fi! The rewards may vary slightly, but all get the archive and bonus episodes!

Mur had some last minute changes come up, but the awesome authors Ursula Vernon and Diana Rowland ended up calling in and hanging out to talk about the tools we use in our careers, from Scrivener to assistants.

Mur is woefully behind in everything, but that means I have a lot of content to bring you this week!

Twitch schedule for week of Sept. 13.
Mon: 2pm Gaming (Focusing on )
Tues: 2pm- I Should Be Writing
Wed: 11am- Ditch Diggers with Gail Carriger!
Thurs: 2pm- I Should Be Writing

We have a special sponsor this month! Frequently I’ll get the question of how to find a writer’s group, beta readers, or critiques. The folks down at Scribophile have the answer! Join, and you can find a group, or just a critique buddy. Get your short stories or your novel workshopped, and help others out in the process!

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Ditch Diggers credits: production by Mur Lafferty, theme song byJohn Anealio, art by Numbers Ninja, site design by Clockpunk Studio and hosted by Libsyn (or Patreon).

September 8, 2021 | Season 7 Ep 20 | murverse.com
Copyright 2005-2021, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-ND 3.5 License

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[DD] Exiled to Discord

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New Ditch Digger logo with shovel and ink “Exiled to Discord” is brought to you in large part by our patrons, who received an early, expanded version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon as low as $1 a month! You can also support at Jemi or Ko-Fi! The rewards may vary slightly, but all get the archive and bonus episodes!

Matt and Mur return to Discord instead of Twitch, since we were taking a day off Twitch in solidarity with the streamers getting harassed on the platform.

Mur is woefully behind in everything, but that means I have a lot of content to bring you this week!

Twitch schedule for week of Sept. 13.
Mon: 2pm Gaming (Focusing on )
Tues: 2pm- I Should Be Writing
Wed: 11am- Ditch Diggers with Gail Carriger!
Thurs: 2pm- I Should Be Writing

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Ditch Diggers credits: production by Mur Lafferty, theme song byJohn Anealio, art by Numbers Ninja, site design by Clockpunk Studio and hosted by Libsyn (or Patreon).

September 1, 2021 | Season 7 Ep 19 | murverse.com
Copyright 2005-2021, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-ND 3.5 License

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[ISBW] 80 Ideas and another Internet SCAM

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New ISBW Logo orange mic with ISBW on the front “80 Ideas and another Internet SCAM” 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 on Patreon as low as $1 a month! You can also support at Jemi or Ko-Fi! The rewards may vary slightly, but all get the archive and bonus episodes!

It’s hard to deal with too many ideas, but I have some thoughts. But also, for the luvva all that is decent, don’t pay to publish your book. Just…don’t.

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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 (or Patreon).

August 19, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 58 (Episode 609) | murverse.com
Copyright 2005-2021, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-ND 3.5 License

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[ISBW] Post Project Meh

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New ISBW Logo orange mic with ISBW on the front “Post Project Meh” 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 on Patreon as low as $1 a month! You can also support at Jemi or Ko-Fi! The rewards may vary slightly, but all get the archive and bonus episodes!

It’s…tiring and down-bringing to finish a project, but hey, I got it done!

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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 (or Patreon).

August 19, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 57 (Episode 608) | murverse.com
Copyright 2005-2021, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-ND 3.5 License

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[DD] Streaming on my own from the basement

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“Streaming on my own from the basement” is brought to you in large part by by our patrons, who received an early release of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon as low as $1 a month! You can also support at Jemi or Ko-Fi! The rewards may vary slightly, but all get the archive and bonus episodes!

The day was kind of a perfect storm for crap, so it ended up with me and the dogs and my phone, streaming from the basement.

To quote Stuart Smalley, “This was not my best show.” But I did it!

To respect #ADayOffTwitch, we will not be streaming this week’s episode, September 1, live. We will still record and either post the recording or do it live in Discord.

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Ditch Diggers credits: production by Mur Lafferty, theme song by Devo Spice, art by Numbers Ninja, site design by Clockpunk Studio and hosted by Libsyn (or Patreon).

August 25, 2021 | Season 7 Ep 18 | murverse.com
Copyright 2015-2021, Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace | BY-NC-ND 3.5 License

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Changes to I Should Be Writing FAQs – FOR PUBLICISTS & WRITERS

New ISBW Logo orange mic with ISBW on the front I get a lot of email from publicists (or authors themselves) who found my name and want me to schedule an interview with them. Most of these people never listen to the show and just know, podcast, writers, interview at some point in the past! Here are some facts about this show:

I talk about genre fiction almost exclusively, since that’s what I write. Therefore most of my guests have been genre fiction authors. Not literature, business, nonfic, memoir, or how-to write.
The rare outside-genre authors I have had were a) recommended by friends to sometimes good, sometimes disastrous effect, and b) by my invitation only.
I stopped doing interviews a few years ago because I ran out of spoons to manage the podcast, and simply keeping the show alive was about all I could handle. I have had very few interviews since then, and all by invitation.
The show is live streamed on Twitch now, and so has a hard time slot of 2pm Eastern Time. This may shift from time to time, but I do strive for consistency.

I am going to be accepting more authors on the show, though. Some will be invited. Some will come through publicists. On my FAQ I have updated the information on who I want to interview:

Can I/my client be interviewed?

I’m mainly looking for debut* and/or BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+ authors to feature. They will primarily be traditionally published genre (SF/F/H) writers.

I wrote out a lot of reasons why I am looking for these authors in particular, and then realized, wait a second, this is my show. I don’t have to justify a damn thing. And if you’re the kind of person who gets mad because I pay attention to someone not like you, then I doubt you would have read my reasons anyway.

*”Debut” means first book out in 2020 or 2021 because of the pandemic.

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[ISBW] Passive Voice Is Discussed

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New ISBW Logo orange mic with ISBW on the front “Passive Voice Is Discussed” 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 on Patreon as low as $1 a month! You can also support at Jemi or Ko-Fi! The rewards may vary slightly, but all get the archive and bonus episodes!

This podcast will be heard and hopefully lessons will be learned. (But is there ever a time TO use passive voice? Of course there is!)

I’m behind on posting these, so if there’s a link I forgot, please let me know.

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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 (or Patreon).

August 19, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 56 (Episode 607) | murverse.com
Copyright 2005-2021, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-ND 3.5 License

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[ISBW] Showing and Telling: What Do They Mean?

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New ISBW Logo orange mic with ISBW on the front “Showing and Telling: What Do They Mean?” 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 on Patreon as low as $1 a month! You can also support at Jemi or Ko-Fi! The rewards may vary slightly, but all get the archive and bonus episodes!

I think I’m slow at these because I hate show notes. Truly.

Keeping up with my “flossing” topics- what exactly does “Show, don’t tell” mean? Is there a time when Telling is better than showing?

Twitch schedule for this week:

M- 2pm AMA
T- 2pm I Should Be Writing
W- 11am Ditch Diggers
Th- 2pm I Should Be Writing

I will probably play a game or something, but I don’t want to schedule it because it’s low on the priority of all the things I need to get done.

I WILL finish the damn novella this week. Today, hopefully.

OH YALL- Check it out! I wrote a running adventure for Six to Start, (of Zombies, Run! fame). If you have the app, you’ll have access to the adventure. And a VIP pass isn’t too expensive for so much content.

This is a story I’ve wanted to tell for so long, but couldn’t find the right medium. The Necropolis is a city within the mountains where people worship the sun and mourn the dead moon. And a Godmaker sits in cabin above them all and carves household gods for the people in town. You are her apprentice, and you

Godmaker comes out TODAY!

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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 (or Patreon).

August 17, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 55 (Episode 606) | murverse.com
Copyright 2005-2021, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-ND 3.5 License

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[ISBW] Where to Start Your Story

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New ISBW Logo orange mic with ISBW on the front “Where to Start Your Story” 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 on Patreon as low as $1 a month! You can also support at Jemi or Ko-Fi! The rewards may vary slightly, but all get the archive and bonus episodes!

Whew! I’m way behind on posting these! But here is the show where we talk about the seemingly simple question- where do you start?

Twitch schedule for this week:

M- 2pm AMA
T- 2pm I Should Be Writing
W- 11am Ditch Diggers
Th- 2pm I Should Be Writing

I will probably play a game or something, but I don’t want to schedule it because it’s low on the priority of all the things I need to get done.

I WILL finish the damn novella this week. Today, hopefully.

Godmaker comes out TOMORROW!

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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 (or Patreon).

August 12, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 54 (Episode 605) | murverse.com
Copyright 2005-2021, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-ND 3.5 License

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[DD] MATT IS BACK! And which way does the money flow?

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“Which Way Does The Money Flow?” is brought to you in large part by by our patrons, who received an early release of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon as low as $1 a month! You can also support at Jemi or Ko-Fi! The rewards may vary slightly, but all get the archive and bonus episodes!

Another scam publisher has reared its ugly head, so we talk about that, and exactly how you can tell if someone is scamming you. (Hint- it has to do with the flow of cash.)

Welcome back, Matt!

New Twitch schedule for our live episodes! Tune in on Wednesdays at 11am Eastern Time!

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Ditch Diggers credits: production by Mur Lafferty, theme song by Devo Spice, art by Numbers Ninja, site design by Clockpunk Studio and hosted by Libsyn (or Patreon).

August 18, 2021 | Season 7 Ep 17 | murverse.com
Copyright 2015-2021, Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace | BY-NC-ND 3.5 License