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Weaponizing Language
I Should Be Writing S17 Ep3

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS
people, characters, writing, tish, goals, characterization, ditch diggers, words, story, week, book, phased, point, big, person, hug, language, run, weaponized, twitch

SPEAKER
Mur Lafferty

Mur 0:33
It is I Should Be Writing number 554 I think. Season 17, episode 3. And it’s Tuesday. What other numbers can I throw at you? It’s Tuesday, the 11th, maybe? Not sure. Yes, I am totally with it, and up to date. I’ve been still recovering. It’s one of the worst things about something throwing you off your schedule is, well tomorrow when you realize you have work to catch up on, but there was other work to do tomorrow. So you have to work on the work that’s slightly late while making other work late. Or work on the work that’s due that day, and make the first work later. So, dealing with migraine and stress about the country and everything has been like. I finally got my scripts turned in yesterday. That was a big relief. Finally got the computer built and I’m saying that like I did something. My husband wanted to build it so I bought all the pieces. I bought all the pieces and he built it. And it’s the 12th but who’s counting. Thank you Robheinz. (more…)

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Turn It Off!
I Should Be Writing S17 Ep2

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writing, people, writer, parasol, thought, collaborative effort, ditch diggers, talk, stream, yesterday, listening, turn, work, book, falling, patreon, world, watching, voyager, vet

SPEAKER
Mur Lafferty

Mur 0:32
It is I Should Be Writing number 553. Also known as season 17 episode 2. This one’s gonna be hard. If you’re listening to this in the future, hope things are better. I’m not going to talk a lot about stuff today. Only, I’m going to talk about how we’re creative people and how this stuff like the attempted coup on the Capitol yesterday, how that affects us. Some people well, I’ll get to it later. Like I said, this is hard for me. It’s also hard for me, because I’m still having trouble with my preferred streaming software that I’m paying for. And for some stupid reason, instead of testing it, I went ahead and worked up a new theme to make it look good and then tested it. And it worked about as well as it has the rest of this week. So that’s why I’m back here. With my, the caricature designed by my daughter. And it’s purple. It’s solid, I think. Yeah, so this is January 7th, I think. Yeah, January 7th and we’re just kind of all reeling from the attack on the Capitol yesterday. (more…)

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Grim and Determined
I Should Be Writing S17 Ep1

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mistakes, realized, draft, teacher, people, podcast, find, mighty, rejections, shuttle, emails, happened, practicing, happy, failure, writing, learned, year, scene, feel

Speaker
Mur Lafferty

Mur   0:00

My name is Mur Lafferty and I am your host of this podcast for wannabe fiction writers. I stream live Tuesdays and Thursdays on Twitch, and the RSS feed goes from my web page at murverse.com or wherever fine podcasts are found. It’s been a bad brain week and you know in hindsight, I’m thinking it’s possible it’s simply because of the whole anniversary effect. It’s pretty much around a year from lockdown last year. Around this week, next week, last week, that’s around the time a lot of the areas around the world were shutting down. And anniversary stress is real, but it’s weird because sometimes you don’t think about it consciously. And this is one thing I’m realizing in my middle age that I’m getting a little sick of which is, my body can have an emotional response to something that my brain is not even thinking of. So, I don’t like it when I feel crappy and I don’t know why. I’m trying to do the whole make lemons out of lemonade. No wait, it’s the other way around, isn’t it? Make lemonade out of lemons and actually talk about it on the show and therefore I have a show title, yay. 

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Delicious Conflict Parfait
I Should Be Writing S17 Ep19

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conflict, people, books, happy, bad, sexual assault, thinking, character, writing, easy, hangnail, plot, problem, streamed, stories, trevor project, scene, lafferty, running, mur

Speaker
Mur Lafferty

Mur   0:00

Welcome to I Should Be Writing. This is the podcast for wannabe fiction writers. I’m your host, Mur Lafferty. And I am streaming live on Twitch right now and this will go into the RSS feed soon. Hello Katwood and Underpope. Good to see people. Hey Sarcasmatron5000. Welcome. So it’s been a bad brain day. Been a little tough to get focused. And there’s nothing wrong. It’s not like anything bad has happened or I’m worried about anything, it’s just when you change your work habits, it takes a little while to get used to it. And I’ve been both productive and exercising for a couple of days and today my body and brain are just like, no, I don’t think so. So, I did not a lot of stuff this morning and of course, about an hour before I streamed it was time to get down and start writing. So that’s when I got writing done which is why I’m running late because I wanted to finish the scene which I didn’t do. But I liked the direction I was taking the scene, and it gave me the idea for the show so win-win. Hey Billyboy. Work proceeds on the book. It’s going steady. I’m pretty happy with it. A little scared about shifting some parts of the book around.

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