Posts Tagged ‘nanowrimo’

Podcasts, Projects, rerun

Distractions – Rerun

Should have run November 6. Considering how distracted/low energy I’ve been this week, I figured getting back to the daily show with a distractions episode was appropriate. Catching up with a lot of episodes today.

Goal- 10,000

My wordcount- …not 10k

  • I’ll be doing my writing this year at 4theWords.com (if you want you can use my referral code SKYOA08774)
  • Support this show on Patreon! 

Housekeeping:

  • This year November will feature daily reruns of past NaNoWriMo episodes – some of which were only released to Patreon supporters! Tune into Twitch.tv/mightymur for live write-ins on Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30 EST.

November 6, 2020 | Episode 537 | Rerun from Nov. 4, 2015
Copyright 2020, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License
murverse.com

Podcasts, Projects, rerun

WMUR- Bike Brothers! What Can Break? – Rerun

WMUR RadioBack in 2017 my NaNoWriMo MO was to spoof on radio shows. This is my Car Talk homage. Our characters don’t like it when things break, but our stories need stuff to go wrong, or else there’s no story!

Goal: 5000

Mur’s status of Project: PUPPET

 

4290 / 50000 words. 9% done!

(Getting there. And you can get your own wordcount widget here.)

  • I’ll be doing my writing this year at 4theWords.com (if you want you can use my referral code SKYOA08774)
  • Support this show on Patreon! 

Housekeeping:

  • This year November will feature daily reruns of past NaNoWriMo episodes – some of which were only released to Patreon supporters! Tune into Twitch.tv/mightymur for live write-ins on Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30 EST.

November 3, 2020 | Episode 534 | Rerun from Nov. 4, 2017
Copyright 2020, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License
murverse.com

Podcasts, Projects, rerun

How DARE you? – Rerun

blue chicken outrage
art by Fiona Van Verth

You’ll get pushback during NaNoWriMo. Some people will make fun. Some will dismiss you. Some will be downright jackasses.

BUT I am a skilled jackass-to-English translator, and I cover what some of those comments mean.

Goal: 3333 words

Mur’s status of project PUPPET:

2550 / 50000 words. 5% done!

(Catching up! And you can get your own wordcount widget here.)

  • I’ll be doing my writing this year at 4theWords.com (if you want you can use my referral code SKYOA08774)
  • Support this show on Patreon! 

Housekeeping:

  • This year November will feature daily reruns of past NaNoWriMo episodes – some of which were only released to Patreon supporters! Tune into Twitch.tv/mightymur for live write-ins on Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30 EST.

November 2, 2020 | Episode 533 | Rerun from Nov. 20, 2015
Copyright 2020, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License
murverse.com

Podcasts, Projects, rerun

The Adventure Begins- Rerun

fantasy fruit
art by Fiona Van Verth

It’s November 1. You walk into a tavern and discover you’re on a quest. There are metaphors and daggers involved.

Goal: 1666

Mur’s status of project PUPPET:

0 / 50000 words. 0% done!

(It’s been a rough day, okay? And you can get your own wordcount widget here.)

  • I’ll be doing my writing this year at 4theWords.com (if you want you can use my referral code SKYOA08774)
  • Support this show on Patreon! 

Housekeeping:

  • This year November will feature daily reruns of past NaNoWriMo episodes – some of which were only released to Patreon supporters! Tune into Twitch.tv/mightymur for live write-ins on Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30 EST.

November 1, 2020 | Episode 532 | Rerun from Nov. 1, 2016
Copyright 2016, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License
murverse.com

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ISBW #523: NaNoWriMo Prep & Plan

I like to plan early, and through long discussion we worked out what we’re doing for NaNoWriMo. Reruns for the daily show and live virtual write-ins for the streams!
Note: I lost the stream in the middle and had to reconnect. I’ve edited the two halves together but I’m noticeably flustered for the second half.
Support this show on Patreon! 
Books and sites listed, “homework” sites in bold:
Twitch Schedule (All times Eastern Daylight Time):
  • M- Lunch AMA, 12:30
  • T- Live ISBW, 12:30
  • Th- Live ISBW, 12:30, Live gaming, 8:00
  • Su- Live gaming, 2:00
September 24, 2020 — Copyright 2020, Mur Lafferty — BY-NC-SA 3.5 License
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Ditch Diggers #86: NaNoWriMo Time

Matt and Mur come to you live from the lonely open road of loneliness (don’t worry, they’ll explain).

  • How the Ditch Diggers have ruined all those “fluffy” writing podcasts for our listeners, and why we’re proud of it.
  • Matt talks (as much as he can, which isn’t much) about his publisher Saga Press eliminating Hugo-winning senior editor Navah Wolfe’s position, and the future of his trilogy, the first book of which is still scheduled to come out next summer.
  • The actual topic of the episode reveals itself as the Ditch Diggers do their first NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) episode!
  • A brief rundown of what NaNoWriMo is, and Mur’s and Matt’s collective and separate histories with the yearly event (Matt is no longer anti-NaNoWriMo. Mur has been a NaNoWriMo powerhouse for a decade).
  • It doesn’t really matter whether or not you finish your novel by the end of the month.
  • NaNoWriMo is a great thing artistically and creatively, but the Ditch Diggers are going to focus on the professional/business aspects of the month for writers of all levels.
  • Mur is the Hugh Grant of podcasting.
  • Mur talks about how NaNoWriMo presents an opportunity and prompt for all writers, including professionals, to try new things and explore different genres and styles of stories they otherwise wouldn’t, some of which they can even sell, opening new career avenues.
  • The ways in which NaNoWriMo provides career opportunities for aspiring professional writers (read: writers who are paid money to write or for things they have written).
  • In the course of the above, Matt does a really half-assed John Mulaney impression and explains John Mulaney as Thoreau in Dickinson gifs to Mur, as well as the Ghostwriter remake and the original.
  • Mur talks about one of the problems professional writers can encounter during NaNoWriMo, and her creative workaround.
  • How NaNoWriMo presents an opportunity for writers to peer network and community build, and the right and wrong ways (and reasons) to do both.
  • Mur has once more backed away from Twitter, and she talks about why (spoiler warning: stress and self-care is involved).
  • BTW: It’s okay not to participate in NaNoWriMo. Matt has never participated in NaNoWriMo. Don’t give in to the FOMO.
  • Matt invents ShiFiDraMo (Shitty First Draft Month).
  • The Ditch Digger Discord Discord is a hotbed of NaNoWriMo games and prompts, so join the Ditch Diggers by supporting the Patreon at the $5 level or higher.
  • Matt and Mur will continue down the long lonely road of loneliness until they find a new home, and you should come along for that journey.

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