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Ditch Diggers #67: Live from WorldCon

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  • The Ditch Diggers come to you from San Jose, California for their 4th Annual Ditch Diggers Live! from WorldCon 76 with special guests, authors KM Szpara and Margaret Dunlap!
  • Matt and Mur put Kellan and Margaret through the first ever Ditch Diggers’ Choose Your Own Publishing Career, forcing them to assume the roles of an aspiring fiction writing team building their publishing career from the ground up (with the audience’s help in determining their fate at each decision point).
  • Live Q&A with the WorldCon 76 audience, including a special guest appearance by Mur’s agent (and podcaster herself), Jennifer Udden of Barry Goldblatt Literary!

(Spoiler, we won the Hugo.)

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ISBW #395: Feedback

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serial box logoLordy, I’m behind on feedback! I catch up here. I’ll do a Twitter feedback show in the future.

I would love some ideas as to what you want to see in episode 400 of I Should Be Writing. Send me your thoughts!

ISBW is sponsored by Serial Box! Yes, my publisher for Bookburners, one of my favorite projects I’ve worked on in the past few years! Get a discount on a whole season of content with the code WRITING18.

Also: did you know I’m offering transcriptions of both ISBW and Ditch Diggers? They will go up as soon as I get them for Patreon supporters, and a bit later for everyone else. It’s only at the $1 level, and you’re helping me offer a more accessible show, so pledge now!

(I recorded and scheduled this last week, so the below hasn’t changed.)

  • Current WiP: [REDACTED], a secret project and Project Code Name: LIMBY
  • Currently reading: How Luck Happens, and research related to [REDACTED], will update when I can. Follow me on Goodreads if you like, I’m usually reading a bunch of stuff at once.)
  • Last movie seen: Black Panther (still)

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ISBW #394: Procrastination / Gabe Denning Interview

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serial box logoIn reading a book on luck, I had an epiphany not on luck, but on procrastination. I explore the reason why we may avoid writing, and then I talk to G. S. Denning, author of the Warlock Holmes series.

ISBW is sponsored by Serial Box! Yes, my publisher for Bookburners, one of my favorite projects I’ve worked on in the past few years! Get a discount on a whole season of content with the code WRITING18.

Also: did you know I’m offering transcriptions of both ISBW and Ditch Diggers? They will go up as soon as I get them for Patreon supporters, and a bit later for everyone else. It’s only at the $1 level, and you’re helping me offer a more accessible show, so pledge now!

  • Current WiP: [REDACTED], a secret project and Project Code Name: LIMBY
  • Currently reading: How Luck Happens, and research related to [REDACTED], will update when I can. Follow me on Goodreads if you like, I’m usually reading a bunch of stuff at once.)
  • Last movie seen: Black Panther (still – I don’t see a lot of movies in the theater, but upcoming I hope to see Annihilation, Pacific Rim, and the new Pacific Rim movie)

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ISBW #393: Supporting Characters’ Motivations

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serial box logoWhen your supporting characters’ response to personally tragic things in their life is “how will this affect this other person?” then you have a problem.

Are you a WorldCon member? Don’t forget to vote for the Hugos, AND remember you have the power to go to the business meeting!

ISBW is sponsored by Serial Box! Yes, my publisher for Bookburners, one of my favorite projects I’ve worked on in the past few years! Get a discount on a whole season of content with the code WRITING18.

Also: did you know I’m offering transcriptions of both ISBW and Ditch Diggers? They will go up as soon as I get them for Patreon supporters, and a bit later for everyone else. It’s only at the $1 level, and you’re helping me offer a more accessible show, so pledge now!

  • Current WiP: [REDACTED], a secret project.
  • Currently reading: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (follow me on Goodreads if you like, I’m usually reading a bunch of stuff at once.)
  • Last movie seen: Black Panther — 12/10 OMG SO GOOD

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[Transcript] ISBW #391: Emotions Get In The Way

January 30, 2018

Mur: [00:00:00] I Should Be Writing 391, I think. Yeah, sure let’s say that. For the week of January 29th. Yes, I know it’s not the week of January 29th.

Theme Song: [00:00:13] I should be writing. I should be working on my craft. I should be writing. I should be submitting my next draft. But I’m sitting watching Doctor Who.

Mur: [00:00:36] Hi there, welcome to I Should Be Writing, the podcast for wanna-be fiction writers. I’m your host, Mur Lafferty, and yes, I said this is last week’s episode, and I know it’s not last week, it’s this week. Here’s what happened: I know I always have an excuse when things go sideways, but I think this is a pretty good excuse. Last week I had a pretty bad migraine for a couple days, and I got some professional news that pretty much blew my mind. And no, I can’t tell you what it is, unfortunately, because I would love to. Seriously, it ruined my brain for a couple of days, literally, and now I’m just trying to get back on the work that’s late. So you’re going to get two episodes of I Should Be Writing this week and two episodes of Ditch Diggers. (more…)

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ISBW #392: Convention How-To

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serial box logoIt’s time for the yearly discussion about conventions, how to talk to pros, how to talk to editors and agents, and don’t harass people.

ISBW is sponsored by Serial Box! Yes, my publisher for Bookburners, one of my favorite projects I’ve worked on in the past few years! Get a discount on a whole season of content with the code WRITING18.

HEY- did you know I’m offering transcriptions of both ISBW and Ditch Diggers? They will go up as soon as I get them for Patreon supporters, and a bit later for everyone else. It’s only at the $1 level, and you’re helping me offer a more accessible show, so pledge now!

    • Current Writing Project: LIMBY (code name), a standalone SF book.
    • Currently reading: The Sol Majestic (ARC) by Ferrett Steinmetz (follow me on Goodreads if you like, I’m usually reading a bunch of stuff at once.)
    • Last movie seen: Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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