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Ditch Diggers #87: Dealing with Dark Days

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Mur

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Matt and Mur come to you live from a Christmas tree farm just off the winding lonely road of loneliness for the penultimate Ditch Diggers episode of 2019!

  • Mur laments the final dark days of the year while Matt questions establishing a Christmas tree farm along the lonely road of loneliness.
  • Matt explains why he is over the holidays and not in usual festive mode.
  • Mur has come to the it’s-good-to-breathe-in-and-out realization that the holidays take a lot of time, yet regular life doesn’t stop during the season, and you have to force yourself to stop.
  • Matt and Mur update their listeners on what’s going on in their professional lives, which includes anxiety-inducing publisher-issued questionnaires, Mur being a local girl, and how they don’t let you stop writing during the holidays.
  • The Ditch Diggers segue into talking about persistence, the false perception of it, and how it’s not only okay to fail, it is often necessary in maintaining that persistence.
  • A writing career is Jeremy Bearimy.
  • Matt and Mur take a tangent into how no one can actually tell you what to do or how to do it when it comes to advancing your writing career.
  • Mur’s Bond villain catchphrase is revealed (spoiler: it’s “Uh-huh”).
  • Matt segues (poorly) back into the main topic, which shifts to how there are times when you CAN’T quit and have to do the writing.
  • Mur and Matt talk about having to do creative work when you’re creatively burnt out, and how to do it/get through it.
  • Mur is the Hugh Grant of local girls.
  • The Ditch Diggers rant about Lupita Nyong’o not getting a Golden Globe nomination, despite it having nothing to do with anything else being discussed.
  • Matt talks about writing as chair building vs. sculpting.
  • Listener Q&A! Topics include tax write-offs for freelance writers, the joy of big gay wizards, and developing your online presence.
  • Finally: Mur is the wellspring, a.k.a. “Local Girl Becomes Wellspring.”
  • The customarily disjointed end-of-episode shilling occurs.

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