I Should Be Writing

Recorded October 22, 2022

What to do when your NaNo project makes everything else in your life depressing? 

What would you change if you were marathon training? You'd change the time you got up, the time you went to bed, what you ate, when you ate, and your weekends would likely be dominated by long runs. And until you got used to it, your daily life and daily chores would be affected. 

NaNoWriMo is marathon training. Treat it like that. Expect it. You got this. 

Where to find me!

• Website
• Patreon
• Twitter
• Twitch
• TikTok (Evil Mur is getting on TikTok Again!)

October 22, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 65 | murverse.com Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License

Let's ask the tough questions. How do you make a dead baby funny? How do you make a cozy murder mystery cozy when there's a decapitated corpse in chapter 4? It's all about emotion.

This works for sex too, which I don't mention. In the 90s, Rachel and Monica on Friends were considered the feminine sex appeal of the decade, but both appeared in lingerie on the show and it was ... not sexy because of the emotion in the scene. ("The One With Rachel's New Dress" and "The One with Rachel's Sister", respectively)

Oh- Doggo update, the vet didn't want to do XRays since they won't do anything immediately anyway, and we already have sedation + Xrays planned for next month schedule and paid for, so we are going to wait till then. So she got to go to the vet for free and get fussed over by her fan club all day with no actual vet prodding, which is not a bad way to live, all things considered. (She loves the vet because they love her there.)

October 21, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 64 | murverse.com Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License

S18 Ep62

Time to talk prep, but honestly, the biggest obstacle in front of you is your existing day-to-day life. What will have to move aside?

Where to find me!

• Website
• Patreon
• Twitter
• Twitch

October 20, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 62 | murverse.com Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License

S18 Ep60: NaNoWriMo, Habits and Change

ISBW PSAs

• 2022 Total Word Count: ???
• Solo RPG project

Good News Good News

• Team Rejection count: 338

Main Topic: NaNoWriMo Cometh

• The distractions of emotional expectations
• The untapped powers of the random number generator

Station Eternity is OUT by the way. Go get your copy from your favorite bookseller!

Links

• Mur on Focusmate!
• Mur on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube
• Newsletter, The Hot Mic
• 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!

October 13, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 60 | murverse.com Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License

I've gone to doing a daily show to get in shape for my yearly NaNoWriMo daily show. The daily show will be in the main feed until Oct 31, but then in November it goes to Patreon only. Join us in the Ink Stained Fabulists on Patreon for only $1 a month for the next two weeks!

In this tiny episode we talk about NaNoWriMo, and what traditionally published authors have power to do (and not do) with their books. Also, I talk about the doggo.

Where to find me!

• Website
• Patreon
• Twitter
• Twitch

October 19, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 61 | murverse.com Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License

Recorded live Sept 29. 2022

My entire production team is either sick, or has a sick loved one, so show notes will be minimal. 

I talked with Desideria Mesa about Bindle Punk Bruja, her historical magical book about Kansas City, Prohibition, and Mexican magic! 

Station Eternity is OUT by the way. Go get your copy from your favorite bookseller!

September 29, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 58 | murverse.com Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License

Good News Good News

• Team Rejection count: 328

Main Topic: Gwendolyn Kiste, “Reluctant Immortals”

• Gwendolyn talks about the “reluctant immortals” in her new novel, well-known characters from Classic Literature
• Brainstorming is work
• Questions from chat
• https://www.gwendolynkiste.com/  
• https://twitter.com/GwendolynKiste

Links

• Mur on Focusmate!
• Mur on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube
• Newsletter, The Hot Mic
• 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!

Twitch schedule Sept 25-Oct 1 (Eastern time):

• Sept 28 3:00pm: Gaming: The Wandering Village
• Sept 29 3:00pm: I Should Be Writing with Desideria Mesa
• Oct 1 7:00pm: Station Eternity LIVE! Mini Audio Drama performance on Twitch!

September 22, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 58 | murverse.com Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License

S18 Ep57 NOTE- we had a number of technical difficulties, including a part where the stream drops off and then returns. Please take note.    I can't remember if we swore in this one, but just in case, this has an EXPLICIT tag.   T. Kingfisher and What Moves the Dead  Mur's Page

ISBW S18 Ep56: Guest Tanvi Berwah and Writing Myths

Good News Good News

Team Rejection count: 328

Main Topic: Tanvi Berwah, “Monsters Born and Made”

Tanvi talks about her new novel, the Indian & Arabic myths her story’s monsters are based on, exploring biases and caste and class discriminations through the characters & the story, and more.

Tanvi also talks about how her writing is influenced by her mental health journey (you don’t have to suffer in order to create, so please take care of yourself and seek help when you can), and the expanded story she wants to explore in Book 2 and beyond.

https://tanviberwah.com  https://twitter.com/tanviberwah https://www.instagram.com/tanviberwah/

September 16, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 56 | murverse.com Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License

Good News Good News

• Team Rejection count: 313
• STATION ETERNITY: Library Journal Starred Review https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/station-eternity-1790821

Main Topic: Back to Basics: Ask Me Anything, featuring Evil Mur

• Evil Mur regales the audience with proclamations of self-promotion and awesome writerly advice that you should do everything you can to emulate in order to create your Best Ever Author Life.
• Do not listen to Evil Mur. Just, don’t.

August 18, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 55 | murverse.com Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License