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ISBW #488: We’ve been served poop juice. (AKA The Artist’s Way again)

Well it should be called The Artist’s Way, but I talk a lot about poop juice. And poop po’boys*. And I don’t swear. The Discord will have a new channel to discus it if anyone wants to join me!

Hey! Red Meat is online!

Artist’s Way on Indiebound and Amazon.

*my daughter said “please never say that in my presence again”

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Ditch Diggers #92: So you’re working from home now…

NOTE- Recorded last week (the 12th I think?) and the news has moved fast since.

Matt and Mur come to you live from their shiny new quarantine room within the new Ditch Diggers mansion.

  • The Ditch Diggers are not theological scholars.
  • COVID-19 is discussed, as is America’s response to it, because how could they not be? It’s a pandemic. And Matt and Mur are in America.
  • Many people are working at home right now, and thus the topic of the episode emerges.
  • How “doing more stuff around the house” can become your whole day when you work from home, and transitioning your daily/weekly commute time into valuable work-from-home time.
  • The foundation of your new work-from-home routine is still getting ready like you’re going to go to work.
  • You have to find your version of pants.
  • Advice for people for whom “stick to a routine” is useless advice, and how writers are the worst people to put in charge of writers.
  • Working from home with partners/spouses and also kids.
  • Matt talks about staying in the moment when you work from home, triaging tasks, and the almighty reward system.
  • Mur talks about her Two-Face-esque random chance method of managing daily tasks.
  • At the end of the day, you just have to find the method that works for you, and working from home is a wholly individualistic thing.
  • Mur talks about the Pomodoro Method and Matt invents the Pompadour Method.
  • Twitter Q&A! Topics include choosing your “people,” those from whom you take advice on your work.
  • Read more romance!
  • The ceremonial end of episode shilling (buy Mur’s SIX WAKES which is still not about a space deli and please preorder Matt’s book SAVAGE LEGION).

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Ditch Diggers #91: Q&A Time!

  • Matt and Mur come to you live from the snack tent outside the construction site where the new Ditch Diggers mansion will one day be.
  • Everybody loves snacks, and it’s a fun word to say.
  • Mur and Matt don’t know if construction workers call it a “snack tent,” but they want their construction worker aspiring writer listeners to popularize it for them.
  • Personal lives! They happen, and they must take precedent, and for Matt and Mur personal lives have been an issue recently.
  • Tiger Balm is the greatest name for anything ever created.
  • It is going to be one of the Ditch Diggers’ infamous, patented, ever popular Q&A/feedback episodes!
    A question concerning the need to be “marketable” to agents, and when/if to broach topics like your ability to continue regularly producing books.
  • A listener reacting to Matt’s previous rant on publisher’s marketing ability asks about the necessity/value of traditional publishing, and the Ditch Diggers discuss the advantages and disadvantages of both trad and self-publishing.
  • The definition of “debut” author and when and how it’s appropriate to use the label is discussed.
  • Children age, and it is hard on those observing it.
  • Matt is steadily becoming anti-list, and he apologizes for mispronouncing a listener’s name repeatedly.
  • With the questions answered, the Ditch Diggers commit the traditional end of episode shilling.

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