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[Transcript] ISBW S17 Ep1: Grim and Determined

ISBW LogoI’m excited to be able to offer transcriptions of I Should Be Writing again! I’m starting with the new season’s livestreams and catching up as I can. If you want to help this endeavor, supporting the Patreon, the Ko-Fi, or the Jemi would be a great help.

Grim and Determined
I Should Be Writing S17 Ep1

SUMMARY KEYWORDS
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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[ISBW] Avoiding Cliches

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April Themed Illustrated I Should Be Writing Logo with butterfly, title of episode below. Title Avoiding Cliches“Avoiding Cliches” is brought to you in large part by by my patrons , who received an early, expanded version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge as low as $3 a month!

It’s easy to slip into stereotypes when you  are writing someone different from yourself. I have some thoughts on how to avoid that.

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April 8, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 25 (Ep 576) | murverse.com
Copyright 2005-2021, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License

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[ISBW] Twitter’s ‘Main Character’ and Bad Advice

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April Themed Illustrated I Should Be Writing Logo with butterfly, title of episode below. Title Bad Advice“Bad Advice” is brought to you in large part by by my patrons , who received an early, expanded version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge as low as $3 a month!

The most recent “Main Character” on Writing Twitter is doling out the bad advice: a woman flat out said horror can’t happen in space. If the story is in space, no matter how scary, she argues, it’s automatically science fiction.

This means space beats zombies, if you’re keeping score. Also, cross-genre isn’t a thing apparently.

Now, aside from bringing the Internet down on your head when you say stuff like this, blanket advice is harmful in other ways, too.

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April 6, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 24 (Ep 575) | murverse.com
Copyright 2005-2021, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License

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[ISBW] Fear Is Like the Wind or Tides or Something

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March Themed Illustrated I Should Be Writing Logo with shamrock, title of episode below. Title Fear Is Like the Wind or Something, I dunno“Fear Is Like the Wind or Tides or Something” is brought to you in large part by by my patrons , who received an early, expanded version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge as low as $3 a month!

I’m realizing that fear is often connected to the lack of control in a situation. Such as submitting to an editor or publishing a book. You might as well try to control the tides.

Also, I’m a NYT Bestseller now! Or part of one, anyway. (I wrote one of the Minecraft novels!)

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March 25, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 23 (Ep 574) | murverse.com
Copyright 2005-2021, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License

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[ISBW] Writing Is Like Running, Except When It’s Not

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Writing is like running“Writing Is Like Running, Except When It’s Not” is brought to you in large part by by my patrons , who received an expanded version of this episode early. You can join our community with a pledge as low as $3 a month!

Practice and expectation of improvement are similar components between writing and running, but there’s a big difference.

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March 23, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 22 (Ep 573) | murverse.com
Copyright 2005-2021, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License

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[ISBW] Staying Monogamous to Your WiP

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March image, shamrock, ISBW logo“Staying Monogamous to Your WiP” is brought to you in large part by by my patrons , who received an expanded version of this episode early. You can join our community with a pledge as low as $3 a month!

It’s a standard feeling that once you get used to your current WiP and you may have hit a snag here and there, you will get the desire to focus on another, newer, shinier project. This is totally normal, everyone from a newbie to a pro feels this. But the question is, what do you do when you feel like that?

I record these episodes live on Twitch, and cut out most of the interaction with the chat for a cleaner podcast. But we did have one topic suggested in chat that needs to be repeated: one person thought that accountability buddy + food = good focusing incentive. Putting the power in someone else’s hands, where you can’t go out for a beer/dinner/movie/something else together until you hit a certain deadline. Brilliant.

Note: by “monogamous” I don’t mean you can’t work on more than one project at once, I mean that if you keep getting distracted by new projects. If you can safely polyamory your projects then more power to you.

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March 18, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 21 (Ep 572) | murverse.com
Copyright 2005-2021, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License

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[Transcript] ISBW S17 Ep19: Delicious Conflict Parfait

ISBW LogoI’m excited to be able to offer transcriptions of I Should Be Writing again! I’m starting with the new season’s livestreams and catching up as I can. If you want to help this endeavor, supporting the Patreon, the Ko-Fi, or the Jemi would be a great help.

Delicious Conflict Parfait
I Should Be Writing S17 Ep19

SUMMARY KEYWORDS
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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[ISBW] Mitsakes adn Fialures

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We are supposed to learn from mistakes, so why are we so hard on ourselves when we make them?

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Get the extended version of this podcast via Patreon!

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March 16, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 20 (Ep 571) | murverse.com
Copyright 2005-2021, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License

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[ISBW] Delicious Conflict Parfait

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ISBW Logo“Delicious Conflict Parfait” is brought to you in large part by by my patrons , who received an expanded version of this episode early. You can join us with a pledge as low as $1 a month!

Conflict shows us how people relate to each other, much better than a good day will. Conflicts include everything from an injury, to lack of sleep, to fights with significant others, to rude folks on the road, and then the big one with the meteor coming to destroy the Earth. The worse the day is, the more we learn about the character and what matters to them.

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March 11, 2021 | Season 17 Ep 19 (Ep 570) | murverse.com
ISBW S17 Ep19: Delicious Conflict Parfait by Mur Lafferty is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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[Transcript] ISBW S17 Ep17: Who Do You Trust?

ISBW LogoI’m excited to be able to offer transcriptions of I Should Be Writing again! I’m starting with the new season’s livestreams and catching up as I can. If you want to help this endeavor, supporting the Patreon, the Ko-Fi, or the Jemi would be a great help.

Who Do You Trust?
I Should Be Writing S17 Ep17

SUMMARY KEYWORDS
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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