I Should Be Writing

Monsters you can come across on your adventure including the evil time eater...

Goal: 21,666

November 14, 2020 | Rerun from Nov. 16, 2016 Season 16 Ep 48 (Episode 545) | murverse.com Copyright 2020, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License

November 13, 2020 | Rerun from Nov. 8, 2016 Season 16 Ep 47 (Episode 544) | murverse.com Copyright 2020, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License

Back to the spoof radio shows, this time we look at the soap opera, and how it gives us one of the basic things about characters. Namely- they've got to WANT something.

Goal: 20,000

DESPITE what I posted yesterday about the power of placebos, you still have to do the work, sorry to say. Ain't nothing out there going to do it for you. And around this time you have to remember that. Just also remember you're not alone.

Goal: 18,333

Do you need that cup of tea, or the right music, or your lucky Star Wars figure to sit beside your monitor so you can imagine it saying "you got this!" Whatever feather you need to hold in your trunk, if it helps you get the words done, then don't knock it.

Goal: 16666

November 10, 2020 | Rerun from Nov. 12, 2017 Season 16 Ep 44 (Episode 541) | murverse.com Copyright 2020, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License

I talk about good old Chuck Palahniuk and how he wrote Fight Club. If it's good enough for the NYT Bestseller then it's good enough for you! Or something more motivational. (He wasn't a bestseller when he wrote Fight Club, you know.)

November 9, 2020 | Rerun from Nov. 17, 2015 Season 16 Ep 43 (Episode 540) | murverse.com Copyright 2020, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License

Write whatever scene is in your mind. Don't worry about whether it follows the last scene, or even if it's got the right characters. Just get the words down, and fix it in edits!

Goal: 13333

November 8, 2020 | Rerun from Nov. 6, 2017 Season 16 Ep 42 (Episode 539) | murverse.com Copyright 2020, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License

Now is the time to pull out all your description: food, drink, color, touch, adverbs, adjectives, spelling out contractions, etc. All of that and more. Get those words in, by any means necessary!

Goal- 11666

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

November 6, 2020 | Originally posted November 4, 2015 | Copyright 2020 Mur Lafferty, BY-NC-SA

TL;DR - Don't. But the podcast is cleverer than that.

Your wordcount is your own and that's OK.

Me, I'm dealing with a lot of intensity with current events and confusion with my WiP. I'm behind. But I don't care. I am moving on the story and that's what matters.

Goal: 8333

November 5, 2020 | Originally posted November 11, 2017 | Copyright 2020 Mur Lafferty, BY-NC-SA