The Murverse Mothership

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We talk organizing and distractions. It’s unorganized and distracted, just so you know.

• Mur and Matt discuss Morgan Freeman’s obsession with Franklin Mint Collector’s Plates featuring older, fatter Elvis.
• Mur restates the premise of the podcast, old school, as if it were an early episode.\
• Matt and Mur talk about their current editing schedules.
• Mur attempts to use the above to smoothly segue into the show’s topic, but Matt derails the conversation after an off-hand comment about his hair.
• Matt and Mur finally reach the topic of the episode, organization for professional writers.
• Mur talks about prioritizing.
• Matt talks about being your own assistant.
• Social media as a distraction and a tool, and the appropriate amount of time to spend on it to prevent the former and enable the latter.
• Apps that help you focus on writing, including real ones like Forest and ones that don’t exist like Matt’s hostage bunny app.
• Simple alternatives to app solutions, like shutting off your WiFi, and Post-it notes.
• Matt and Mur debut a new segment, the Writer’s Torment Corner, and talk about World Fantasy Con’s woeful lack of harassment/accessibility policies.
• Email and Twitter questions.
• Matt and Mur remind everyone Ditch Diggers is an awards eligible podcast and it is podcast season.
• Apps mentioned in this episode…
  Forest: http://www.forestapp.cc/
  Write or Die: http://writeordie.com/

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