The Murverse Mothership

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• Mur and Matt come to you live from Morgan Freeman’s sandwich cart right outside of the unemployment line (thanks to a classic Mur Lafferty improv).
• The Ditch Diggers discuss conflict; not as a narrative device, but whether or not their internal conflict on the show is more interesting than other types of conflict (Matt is very offended by the idea it’s not).
• Format change! Regular episodes will continue twice a month, while every other week we will present The 20-Minute Ditch, a shorter episode dedicated to a single topic without Q&A.
• Matt and Mur also announce that they are forced (for the time being) to make the transcriptions of each episode a new Patreon goal.
• The importance of your support to the show via things like Patreon (mainly Patreon) and how the lack of it has real consequences on the show.
• Matt and Mur bring each other (and the audience) up to date on their careers and what’s been going on with their writing and related business matters.
• The episode’s topic emerges! How the hell do you get a job as a freelance writer, anyway?
• Mur talks about the process, pitfalls, benefits, detriments, and necessity of networking.
• Matt talks about what to do (and what not to do) if you have no contacts and are unable to network to any significant degree.
• The importance of having strong writing samples, getting to know your peers and contemporaries, and never dismissing anyone based on your perception of their talent/potential, and reading/watching the content you want to write.
• Matt tells the story of getting his first writing job in LA off of Craigslist.
• The obligatory end-of-episode shilling!

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