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Who Do You Trust?
I Should Be Writing S17 Ep17

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conflict, people, books, happy, bad, sexual assault, thinking, character, writing, easy, hangnail, plot, problem, streamed, stories, trevor project, scene, lafferty, running, mur

Speaker
Mur Lafferty

Mur   0:00

Welcome to I Should Be Writing. This is the podcast for wannabe fiction writers. I’m your host, Mur Lafferty. And I am streaming live on Twitch right now and this will go into the RSS feed soon. Hello Katwood and Underpope. Good to see people. Hey Sarcasmatron5000. Welcome. So it’s been a bad brain day. Been a little tough to get focused. And there’s nothing wrong. It’s not like anything bad has happened or I’m worried about anything, it’s just when you change your work habits, it takes a little while to get used to it. And I’ve been both productive and exercising for a couple of days and today my body and brain are just like, no, I don’t think so. So, I did not a lot of stuff this morning and of course, about an hour before I streamed it was time to get down and start writing. So that’s when I got writing done which is why I’m running late because I wanted to finish the scene which I didn’t do. But I liked the direction I was taking the scene, and it gave me the idea for the show so win-win. Hey Billyboy. Work proceeds on the book. It’s going steady. I’m pretty happy with it. A little scared about shifting some parts of the book around.

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My Novel’s Done, Now What?
I Should Be Writing S17 Ep15

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book, agent, writing, editor, people, lafferty, story, edits, read, submission guidelines, chapter, writer, hear, character, paragraph, science fiction, published, magazine, fix, query

SPEAKER
Mur Lafferty

Mur   0:00

Hi there. Welcome to I Should Be Writing, the podcast for wannabe fiction writers. I am Mur Lafferty. And if you’re new to me, I am a podcaster, a science fiction writer, and editor. And author. Well I said that. Wow, getting off to a great start today. I’m suffering right now from what I’m realizing is a stress hangover. And I don’t know if… I’m sure psychologists have a better return for it, but I don’t know what that is. So, I had a very stressful day yesterday. I had to take my dog to the vet. He was sick. And so the first part of the day was worrying about him and then two hours at the vet. And then the last day was just trying to get him home and comfortable and recover from all the stress. This morning I was not with it. And I took my ADD meds and I still managed to try to find something to listen to while I wrote, find an interesting bug that changed iTunes or it’s called music now. They’re changing the album art with the wrong album, and it’s like all mixed up. And so if you’ve been building your music library for years and years and years, then it’s just complete chaos.  (more…)

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Poor Little Rich Writer
I Should Be Writing S17 Ep12

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book, publisher, agent, people, deal, writing, advance, earn, publishing, podcast, author, sell, money, career, sales, lafferty, sympathize, fact, royalties, pay

SPEAKER
Mur Lafferty

Mur  0:00

This is I Should Be Writing Season 17 Episode 12. And I am Mur Lafferty. This is I Should Be Writing, the podcast for wannabe fiction writers. And I like to talk about writing but I also like to talk about the writer’s life. Anyway, I hope people are doing well today. What have I been up to? Well, I am thrilled to finally be able to announce that yesterday I finished one of my many projects. Finished one of my three major projects and turned it in. I hate saying this but you know, I got to be honest. One of the first times in my life, I worked on a project right when I got the information about it and turned it in well before the deadline. And saying that out loud sounds like ‘Well, of course, that’s easy.” But it hasn’t been so I did it. Shocking. I am happy I got that completed. And this morning I pulled up the notes my editor had on my novel and started making notes about what changes to make there. And now I’ve got the weird problem of I was really sure that one thing about the novel, like one person’s arc, wasn’t solid. And I really expected her to bring it up. And she brought up an entirely other arc. Another character, another arc and how that didn’t work for her. I’m thinking, “Okay, well I respect that and I’ll take a look at it but am I wrong in thinking this arc is weak? Should I not touch it?” I don’t know. 

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