I Should Be Writing

By Mur LaffertyEducation Arts Books

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I Should Be Writing episodes

April 14, 2023[ISBW] Agents and Author Expectations
S19 Ep16 Recorded live, March 16, 2023

As much as I've talked about agents, I still get questions, so here are some answers. However, I realize I misused a lot of words in this one. I'm having a bad day. Please don't assume anything about me like Benoit Blanc*.

All agents will look at contracts, try to sell your books to publishers, handle foreign rights and film (and other) sales, and be your best cheerleader. Beyond that, each one is different.

Links

The Hot Mic

Socials: Twitter, Mastodon, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Focusmate

Support via Patreon!

John Anealio on Bandcamp

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!

*Glass Onion. Go see it if you haven't already

April 10, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 17 | murverse.com Copyright 2023, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
14 min
April 13, 2023[ISBW] How Long Does It Take Me To Write A Book?
S19 Ep16 Recorded live, March 16, 2023

Good News Good News

Station Eternity gets a second printing!

Chaos Terminal can be pre-ordered!

Team Rejection Count: 37

Books in the Wild

Savage Crowns by Matt Wallace

Main Topic: Questions Writers Field

Handling the common yet still not so simple questions people ask a writer

Ie, “How long does it take you to write a book?”

Midsomer Murders Story Bot has it made

Links

The Hot Mic

Socials: Twitter, Mastodon, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Focusmate

Support via Patreon!

John Anealio on Bandcamp

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!

March 16, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 16 | murverse.com Copyright 2023, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
26 min
April 12, 2023[ISBW] Indestructible or Destructible?
S19 Ep15 Recorded solo, April 10, 2023

The Picasso quote that I mangled: "We artists are indestructible, even in a prison cell or a concentration camp I would be all right in my own world of art. Even if I had to paint my pictures with my tongue on the dusty floor of my cell."

It's hard to feel invincible, but we are. Remember that.

The word I was looking for to equal contagonist was Mirror Character, who is a lot like the protagonist but interferes.

AITA letter referenced ("I am a train enthusiast..." what is it with these guys and their vehicle obsession? First this guy, then the "pilot" guy...)

Links

The Hot Mic

Socials: Twitter, Mastodon, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Focusmate

Support via Patreon!

John Anealio on Bandcamp

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!

April 10, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 15 | murverse.com Copyright 2023, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
14 min
March 22, 2023[ISBW] Little Challenges
S19 Ep14

Good News Good News

Station Eternity gets a second printing!

Chaos Terminal can be pre-ordered!

Team Rejection Count: 32

Books in the Wild

Mr & Mrs Witch by Gwenda Bond, Death Watch by Stona Fitch, Arca by G.R. Macallister

Congrats to the Nebula Award nominees

Main Topic: Challenge Me, Challenge You

Going beyond the routines now and again to keep the good habits strong

Revisiting The Morning Pages routine (from The Artist’s Way)

Links:

The Hot Mic

Socials: Twitter, Mastodon, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Focusmate

Station Eternity is OUT by the way.

Support via Patreon!

John Anealio on Bandcamp

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!

March 9, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 14 | murverse.com Copyright 2023, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
39 min
March 21, 2023 [ISBW] Peeking At the Inner Critic
S19 Ep13 Epiphany time! The inner critic isn't as strong as we make them out to be! This one is classic recording, no livestream.
March 7, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 13 | murverse.com Copyright 2023, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
12 min
March 20, 2023[ISBW] SB Divya Talks the SF Event Horizon
S19 Ep12

Good News Good News

Station Eternity gets a second printing!

Chaos Terminal can be pre-ordered!

Team Rejection Count: 30

Main Topic: SB Divya is here!

Divya stops by to talk about her new book, MERU

Diving into the science and physics about the universe, plus some genetic engineering

Talking with experts who can fill in the knowledge gaps for your story

Breaking the story rules can be easier in fantasy than in science fiction

Links

https://sbdivya.com

https://twitter.com/divyastweets

March 2, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 12 | murverse.com Copyright 2023, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
55 min
March 10, 2023[ISBW] Gardening Your Writing Life
S.19 Ep.9

How quickly does a succulent grow? Does a writer grow any faster?

Links:

The Hot Mic

Socials: Twitter, Mastodon, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Focusmate

Station Eternity is OUT by the way.

Support via Patreon!

John Anealio on Bandcamp

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!

February 22, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 09 | murverse.com Copyright 2023, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
15 min
March 09, 2023[ISBW] Realism isn't good narrative
S.19 Ep. 10 Good News Good News

Station Eternity gets a second printing!

Chaos Terminal can be pre-ordered!

Team Rejection Count: 26

Main Topic: How believable does fiction need to be?

Talking about similarly/same named characters

The decisions that go into making a story

New Lord of the Rings? Sigh.

February 23, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 10 | murverse.com Copyright 2023, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
25 min
March 08, 2023[ISBW] Breaking the Rules
S19 Ep11 Which rules must I break, and why can't beginners break rules too? Bad news, your teachers were right. Links:

The Hot Mic

Socials: Twitter, Mastodon, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Focusmate

Station Eternity is OUT by the way.

Support via Patreon!

John Anealio on Bandcamp

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!

March 1, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 11 | murverse.com Copyright 2023, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
13 min
February 24, 2023[ISBW] Green M&Ms and Adverbs
S19 Ep08 Good News Good News

Station Eternity gets a second printing!

Team Rejection Count: 19

Podcast transcript (zip of pdf, docx, txt files)

Main Topic: Are Adverbs Really That Bad?

About that writers advice that says “get rid of adverbs”... it goes deeper than that

Pay attention to your work, and your sentence structures

Shake the story up by making your characters want something; small or personal can be better than epic and world-shattering

Jason Pargin TikTok

Links:

The Hot Mic

Socials: Twitter, Mastodon, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Focusmate

Station Eternity is OUT by the way.

Support via Patreon!

John Anealio on Bandcamp

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!

February 16, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 08 | murverse.com Copyright 2023, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
30 min

About I Should Be Writing

From the publisher's feed

"I should be writing" is what people say, but they rarely do it. This podcast is designed to help you get past those blocks, whether it's what your teacher told you when you were a kid, to being…