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Ditch Diggers #95: More Lockdown Questions!

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Mur

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  • Matt and Mur come to you live with a do-over of an episode that was recorded once before already however due to COVID-19 and/or sabotage by alien robot spies it was deleted (that’s their story, anyway).
  • Garfield Minus Garfield and murder playgrounds as a metaphor for modern society is briefly discussed.
Garfield comic without Garfield in it
Garfield Minus Garfield

 

  • Mur and Matt update the audience and each other on their life-and-working-in-quarantine status.
  • Mur descends into a tangent on feeling pressure to innovate and create new, lockdown-focused content in quarantine and the inability to do so.
  • The Ditch Diggers are recreating what they did last week that you didn’t hear, which is answering your lockdown-related freelancing questions!
  • Economic relief options and programs for freelancers are discussed and (at least tenuously) explained, including PPP and applying for unemployment.
  • Whether the recent layoffs, cutbacks, and furloughs announced by Macmillan and other book publishers are the result of concern or panic.
  • The question is asked, is now the time to write that pandemic novel you’ve got burning inside you? Which feeds back into the age-old topic/question of “writing to the market.” (Also: beans, cool and otherwise)
  • Mur’s books are as important as sex porn (which is a callback to earlier in the episode, because the Ditch Diggers like callbacks).
  • Matt and Mur encourage those with the disposable income to do so to support debut authors in this time of news and circumstances crushing book debuts. Some ideas:
  • The traditional end of episode shilling occurs, including where to find Matt and Mur online in the time of COVID and Matt’s debut epic fantasy novel dropping in July (*cough*Savage Legion*cough*).