I Should Be Writing

8333 down, 41666 to go   Post your work online as you go! Nothing bad will happen, and all feedback will be good.     

7100 / 50000 words. 4% done!

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Don't forget Chaos Terminal comes out November 7!

The daily podcast is usually for supporters only, but this year I’m putting it out for everyone! If you like it, consider supporting with a paid subscription to either Patreon or Substack to get the exclusive episodes after November!

Please remember that Evil Mur is evil and gives terrible advice. Evil Mur will not be responsible for failed manuscripts or devoured cats.

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6666 down, 45000 to go

Everything is legal during NaNoWriMo, including plagiarizing.

Right?

 

7201 / 50000 words. 14% done! Get your wordcount meter at Languageisavirus.com

Have you friended Mur on NaNoWriMo or 4thewords yet?

Don't forget Chaos Terminal comes out November 7!

The daily podcast is usually for supporters only, but this year I’m putting it out for everyone! If you like it, consider supporting with a paid subscription to either Patreon or Substack to get the exclusive episodes after November!

Please remember that Evil Mur is evil and gives terrible advice. Evil Mur will not be responsible for failed manuscripts or visits from Men in Black.

Do not listen to Evil Mur. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA, all other rights reserved by Mur Lafferty

ACK! I forgot to actually post the audio. See what batch-posting does for you, kids? 

5000 down, 45000 to go

Are you behind already? Seriously? Getting despondent?

Then quit.

Because there certainly aren’t any ways to catch back up, and Evil Mur will go over all those impossibilities in this episode.

wordcount: 2000 / 50000 words. 4% done! (As of Nov. 2. Get your wordcount meter at Languageisavirus.com)

Have you friended Mur on NaNoWriMo or 4thewords yet?

Don't forget Chaos Terminal comes out November 7!

The daily podcast is usually for supporters only, but this year I’m putting it out for everyone! If you like it, consider supporting with a paid subscription to either Patreon or Substack to get the exclusive episodes after November!

Please remember that Evil Mur is evil and gives terrible advice. Evil Mur will not be responsible for failed manuscripts or devoured cats.

Do not listen to Evil Mur. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA, all other rights reserved by Mur Lafferty

3333 down, 46666 to go   Sometimes we writers have to make difficult decisions. Evil Mur is sure you’ll make the right one.  

Have you friended Mur on NaNoWriMo or 4thewords yet?

Don't forget Chaos Terminal comes out November 7!

The daily podcast is usually for supporters only, but this year I’m putting it out for everyone! If you like it, consider supporting with a paid subscription to either Patreon or Substack to get the exclusive episodes after November!

Please remember that Evil Mur is evil and gives terrible advice. Evil Mur will not be responsible for failed manuscripts or devoured cats. Do not listen to Evil Mur.   Creative Commons BY-NC-SA, all other rights reserved by Mur Lafferty

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Of course I stumble in posting the first freaking day of the month. So today you get two episodes.

4thewords.com is the best place to lose yourself this month and still feel like you’re writing. You won’t write much, but boy you’ll have fun!

Have you friended Mur on NaNoWriMo or 4thewords yet?

Don't forget Chaos Terminal comes out November 7!

The daily podcast is usually for supporters only, but this year I’m putting it out for everyone! If you like it, consider supporting with a paid subscription to either Patreon or Substack to get the exclusive episodes after November!

Please remember that Evil Mur is evil and gives terrible advice. Evil Mur will not be responsible for choices you make in November.

Do not listen to Evil Mur. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA, all other rights reserved by Mur Lafferty

Evil Mur is here with Day 0 of the NaNoWriMo podcast. I’ll post Day 1 later today.

My current wordcount: 0 (cause this was recorded on October 31)

Streamed live on Twitch! Come join me for cowriting and other shenanigans!

Schedule:

• M 2pm- Co-writing

• T 2pm- co-writing, then ISBW*

• W 2pm- Baldur’s Gate (or co-writing**)

• Th 2pm- co-writing then ISBW*

• F 3pm- Baldur’s Gate (or co-writing**)

*The show will still stream at 3pm. **co-writing will happen if I don’t hit wordcount/podcast count that day.

Video will be live on Youtube at 4pm EDT! 

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NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow! Are you participating? Are you ready? Author, editor, and long time NaNoWriMo municipal liaison Valerie Valdes joins us to talk about her new projects and how to tackle NaNoWriMo!

Don't forget, Chaos Terminal comes out in ONE WEEK.

Transcript

Valerie Valdes 10:08: I wonder if there's like enough NaNoWriMo people at this point who are published writers that it's kind of lost some of that sheen of the amateur. Somehow I don't know. But I definitely haven't heard that as much as I feel like I also would occasionally see that kind of grump on social media. But yeah, I think that, that more and more writers, the benefit of NaNoWriMo, even if you're a professional writer, and you write 100%, of the time all year round, is that you're doing this together with other people who are also doing this thing. And even professional writers, a lot of them don't write 50,000 words in a month, a lot of times, it's a much slower pace, and it's spread out over a longer period of time.

• Home page

• Where Peace is Lost

• Valerie's secret project: The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (A Magic The Gathering novella!)

• Escape Pod

• I don't talk enough about the I Should Be Writing book. It exists. Did you know that?

Evergreen Links

• Mur's newsletter, The Hot Mic

• Socials: Bluesky, Mastodon, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Focusmate. No more bird site. Alas.

• Theme by John Anealio

• I Should Be Writing tea blends

• Support local book stores! Station Eternity, Six Wakes, Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition and more!

• OR Get signed books from my friendly local store, Flyleaf Books!

(affiliate links to indie stores offering books mentioned here, and more: Bookshop.org)

October 30, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 29 | murverse.com | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

I'm taking a break from podcasting to finish my book. Doing some housekeeping and then presenting an excellent interview with Wole Talabi, author of Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon!

Transcript

Wole Talabi: 19:50- ...And I've been to the British Museum several times. The last time I was there, I saw a few items in that I really wanted to, like, take with me, including the brass head of Obalufon, which is a real object. ... I felt the urge to conduct a heist. So I just decided to write it into the novel.

• List of Talabi's publications and short story links
• Temi Oh's work
• T. Kingfisher won the Manly Wade Wellman Award! Congrats, Ursula!
• Escape Pod is a finalist for the Hugo Award, Best Semiprozine category!
• I don't talk enough about the I Should Be Writing book. It exists. Did you know that?

Evergreen Links

• Mur's newsletter, The Hot Mic
• Socials: Bluesky, Mastodon, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Focusmate. No more bird site. Alas.
• Theme by John Anealio
• I Should Be Writing tea blends
• Support local book stores! Station Eternity, Six Wakes, Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition and more!
• OR Get signed books from my friendly local store, Flyleaf Books!

August 10, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 28 | murverse.com Copyright 2023, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License

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ISBW S19 Ep27

T. Kingfisher, Richard Dansky, and I are all nominated for the Manly Wade Wellman Award! It will be given at Congregate this weekend. 

Escape Pod is a finalist for the Hugo Award, Best Semiprozine category!

Black Mirror says just tell the story instead of worrying about the science. Gene Wolfe said it too. 

There are many voices that tell us different things, and some of those voices aren’t writers. 

Interviews will be more frequent moving forward. 

I don't talk enough about the I Should Be Writing book. It exists. Did you know that? 

Evergreen Links

• Mur's newsletter, The Hot Mic
• Socials: Bluesky, Twitter, Mastodon, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Focusmate.
• Theme by John Anealio
• I Should Be Writing tea blends
• Support local book stores! Station Eternity, Six Wakes, Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition and more!
• OR Get signed books from my friendly local store, Flyleaf Books!

(some book links are affiliate)

CREDITS Theme song by John Anealio, art by Numbers Ninja, site design by Clockpunk Studio and files hosted by Libsyn (affiliate link). Get archives of the show via Patreon or Substack. July 13, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 27 | murverse.com "Beyond the Mental Editor vs Writer Battle" by Mur Lafferty is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0