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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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“NEWS and Audience Choice” 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’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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Monday, 12:30, AMA/Hangout
Tuesday, 3:00, I Should Be Writing Live
Wednesday, TBD
Thursday 12:30, I Should Be Writing Live

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April 13, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 26 (Ep 577) | murverse.com
Copyright 2005-2021, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License

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[Transcript] ISBW S17 Ep3: Weaponizing Language

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.

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…)

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[Transcript] ISBW S17 Ep2: Turn It Off!

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. Chat will be cleaned up a few episodes in. If you want to help this endeavor, supporting the Patreon would be a great help.

Turn It Off!
I Should Be Writing S17 Ep2

SUMMARY KEYWORDS
writing, people, writer, parasol, thought, collaborative effort, ditch diggers, talk, stream, yesterday, listening, turn, work, book, falling, patreon, world, watching, voyager, vet

SPEAKER
Mur Lafferty

Mur 0:32
It is I Should Be Writing number 553. Also known as season 17 episode 2. This one’s gonna be hard. If you’re listening to this in the future, hope things are better. I’m not going to talk a lot about stuff today. Only, I’m going to talk about how we’re creative people and how this stuff like the attempted coup on the Capitol yesterday, how that affects us. Some people well, I’ll get to it later. Like I said, this is hard for me. It’s also hard for me, because I’m still having trouble with my preferred streaming software that I’m paying for. And for some stupid reason, instead of testing it, I went ahead and worked up a new theme to make it look good and then tested it. And it worked about as well as it has the rest of this week. So that’s why I’m back here. With my, the caricature designed by my daughter. And it’s purple. It’s solid, I think. Yeah, so this is January 7th, I think. Yeah, January 7th and we’re just kind of all reeling from the attack on the Capitol yesterday. (more…)

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[Transcript] ISBW S17 Ep1: Grim and Determined

Grim and Determined
I Should Be Writing S17 Ep1

SUMMARY KEYWORDS
mistakes, realized, draft, teacher, people, podcast, find, mighty, rejections, shuttle, emails, happened, practicing, happy, failure, writing, learned, year, scene, feel

Speaker
Mur Lafferty

Mur 0:00

My name is Mur Lafferty and I am your host of this podcast for wannabe fiction writers. I stream live Tuesdays and Thursdays on Twitch, and the RSS feed goes from my web page at murverse.com or wherever fine podcasts are found. It’s been a bad brain week and you know in hindsight, I’m thinking it’s possible it’s simply because of the whole anniversary effect. It’s pretty much around a year from lockdown last year. Around this week, next week, last week, that’s around the time a lot of the areas around the world were shutting down. And anniversary stress is real, but it’s weird because sometimes you don’t think about it consciously. And this is one thing I’m realizing in my middle age that I’m getting a little sick of which is, my body can have an emotional response to something that my brain is not even thinking of. So, I don’t like it when I feel crappy and I don’t know why. I’m trying to do the whole make lemons out of lemonade. No wait, it’s the other way around, isn’t it? Make lemonade out of lemons and actually talk about it on the show and therefore I have a show title, yay.

(more…)

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[ISBW] Avoiding Cliches

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“Avoiding Cliches” 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!

It’s easy to slip into stereotypes when you are writing someone different from yourself. I have some thoughts on how to avoid that.

Latest Twitch stream times (EDT):

Monday, 12:30, AMA/Hangout
Tuesday, 3:00, I Should Be Writing Live
Wednesday, 4:00, Gaming
Thursday 12:30, I Should Be Writing Live

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Craft in the Real World
Writing the Other (book and website)
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Tehanu
Just Keep Writing (Wil Ralston’s podcast)

April 8, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 25 (Ep 576) | murverse.com
Copyright 2005-2021, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License

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[ISBW] Twitter’s ‘Main Character’ and Bad Advice

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“Bad Advice” 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!

The most recent “Main Character” on Writing Twitter is doling out the bad advice: a woman flat out said horror can’t happen in space. If the story is in space, no matter how scary, she argues, it’s automatically science fiction.

This means space beats zombies, if you’re keeping score. Also, cross-genre isn’t a thing apparently.

Now, aside from bringing the Internet down on your head when you say stuff like this, blanket advice is harmful in other ways, too.

Latest Twitch stream times (EDT):

Monday, 12:30, AMA/Hangout
Tuesday, 3:00, I Should Be Writing Live
Wednesday, 4:00, Gaming
Thursday 12:30, I Should Be Writing Live

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April 6, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 24 (Ep 575) | murverse.com
Copyright 2005-2021, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License

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[ISBW] Fear Is Like the Wind or Tides or Something

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March Themed Illustrated I Should Be Writing Logo with shamrock, title of episode below. Title Fear Is Like the Wind or Something, I dunno “Fear Is Like the Wind or Tides or Something” 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’m realizing that fear is often connected to the lack of control in a situation. Such as submitting to an editor or publishing a book. You might as well try to control the tides.

Also, I’m a NYT Bestseller now! Or part of one, anyway. (I wrote one of the Minecraft novels!)

Donations benefitting the Trevor Project.

Latest Twitch stream times (EDT):

Monday, 12:30, AMA/Hangout
Tuesday, 3:00, I Should Be Writing Live
Wednesday, 4:00, Gaming
Thursday 12:30, I Should Be Writing Live

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March 25, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 23 (Ep 574) | murverse.com
Copyright 2005-2021, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License

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[ISBW] Writing Is Like Running, Except When It’s Not

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“Writing Is Like Running, Except When It’s Not” is brought to you in large part by by my patrons , who received an expanded version of this episode early. You can join our community with a pledge as low as $3 a month!

Practice and expectation of improvement are similar components between writing and running, but there’s a big difference.

Donations benefitting The Trevor Project.

Latest Twitch stream times (EDT):

Monday, 12:30, AMA/Hangout
Tuesday, 3:00, I Should Be Writing Live
Wednesday, 4:00, Gaming
Thursday 12:30, I Should Be Writing Live

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Camp NaNoWriMo is in full swing!
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March 23, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 22 (Ep 573) | murverse.com
Copyright 2005-2021, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License

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[ISBW] Staying Monogamous to Your WiP

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

It’s a standard feeling that once you get used to your current WiP and you may have hit a snag here and there, you will get the desire to focus on another, newer, shinier project. This is totally normal, everyone from a newbie to a pro feels this. But the question is, what do you do when you feel like that?

I record these episodes live on Twitch, and cut out most of the interaction with the chat for a cleaner podcast. But we did have one topic suggested in chat that needs to be repeated: one person thought that accountability buddy + food = good focusing incentive. Putting the power in someone else’s hands, where you can’t go out for a beer/dinner/movie/something else together until you hit a certain deadline. Brilliant.

Note: by “monogamous” I don’t mean you can’t work on more than one project at once, I mean that if you keep getting distracted by new projects. If you can safely polyamory your projects then more power to you.

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I’m back on Twitch for April! Latest Twitch/YouTube stream times (EST):

Monday, 12:30, AMA/Hangout
Tuesday, 3:00, I Should Be Writing Live
Wednesday, 4:00, Gaming: Skyrim
Thursday 12:30, I Should Be Writing Live

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4 The Words: an RPG for writers
Write or Die
I Should Be Writing Ink Stained Fabulists Community
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March 18, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 21 (Ep 572) | murverse.com
Copyright 2005-2021, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License