Back to Basics S18 Ep45

The first in our twelve episode Back to Basics series! But did you know you could pre-order signed copies of my new book Station Eternity? 

I'm going to be covering basic writing advice for the next twelve episodes.

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• STATION: ETERNITY will be out October 4 2022 
• 2022 Word Count: 120k
• Upcoming changes to ISBW: themed limited series are the new normal

Good News Good News

• Team Rejection count: 204

Main Topic: Back to Basics

• Addressing the imagined fears that sneak up on you when considering a creative career
• Fear of failure when starting a project, Fear of success and its link to impostor syndrome
• Having the courage to say “yes” or “hello”
• There are a few real concerns when walking the path of a creative career
• Perfectionism: It’s A Trap!
• Refer to: Ira Glass, “The Gap”: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/extras/the-gap
• Comparison to others: It’s A Trap!

Links

• Check out the official ISBW merch!
• Mur on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube
• Newsletter, The Hot Mic
• Support via Patreon!
• John Anealio on Bandcamp
• I Should Be Writing tea blends

Twitch schedule for July 18-22:

• 18th Monday 12pm: Ditch Diggers with Ursula Vernon
• 19th Tuesday 3pm: I Should Be Writing
• 20th Wednesday 3pm: Thousand Year Old Vampire Solo RPG, 9pm (POSSIBLE) Stardew Valley stream with friends!
• 21st Thursday 3pm: I Should Be Writing

Coming in August: Return of podcasts, and a live RPG play of Brindlewood Bay!

July 5, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 45 | murverse.com
Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License

I'm back from my break and not making you wait months for the next Spoiler's Club! We have John Scalzi talking Kaiju Preservation Society, with a chance to win! Email me at [email protected] before July 15, 2022, to enter!

Watch the interview on Youtube!

To hear the whole episode, support at Patreon.com/mightymur

June 25, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 44 | murverse.com
Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License

The first rule of Spoilers Club is talk about all the spoilers.

It's our very first Spoiler's Club episode, where we read One For All by Lillie Lainoff, and then she came on the show to talk all about the book with us! Check out the book and then listen to the episode!

For the full episode, support at Patreon. See all my podcasts, books, and more at Murverse.com

Pre-show Notes

• I've been stressed out finishing my book, and sat on SO MANY EPISODES. So we'll be releasing them soon. Don't forget Spoilers Club, June 25!
• Also: Goodreads STATION ETERNITY Giveaway (open through June 30)
• Total raw wordcount for 2022: 118656

S18 Ep42 Live from the Outer Banks, North Carolina, where Mur and Ursula do a free-wheeling brainstorming session about our epic shapeshifter rom-com. Not a very serious episode. Explicit for language. Links

• Merch Shop
• Mur on Twitter
• Mur on Instagram
• Mur on Youtube
• Mur's newsletter, The Hot Mic
• Support via Patreon or Ko-Fi!
• John Anealio on Bandcamp
• I Should Be Writing tea blends

Twitch schedule for June:

• June 1-24: ON BREAK- I may pop in for a stream but nothing scheduled
• Sat June 25: 6:00pm EDT: Spoilers Club with John Scalzi to talk The Kaiju Preservation Society

Coming in July: Return of podcasts, and a live RPG play of Brindlewood Bay!

May 26, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 42 | murverse.com
Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License

Pre-show Notes

• I've been stressed out finishing my book, and sat on SO MANY EPISODES. So we'll be releasing them soon. Don't forget Spoilers Club, June 25!
• Also: Goodreads STATION ETERNITY Giveaway (open through June 30)
• Total raw wordcount for 2022: 118656

S18 Ep41 Live from the Outer Banks, North Carolina, where Mur is trying to finish a book and has little brain room for anything else. This episode may be explicit. I can't remember. Links

• Merch Shop
• Mur on Twitter
• Mur on Instagram
• Mur on Youtube
• Mur's newsletter, The Hot Mic
• Support via Patreon or Ko-Fi!
• John Anealio on Bandcamp
• I Should Be Writing tea blends

Twitch schedule for June:

• June 1-24: ON BREAK- I may pop in for a stream but nothing scheduled
• Sat June 25: 6:00pm EDT: Spoilers Club with John Scalzi to talk The Kaiju Preservation Society

Coming in July: Return of podcasts, and a live RPG play of Brindlewood Bay!

May 24, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 41 | murverse.com
Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License

Pre-show Notes

• I've been stressed out finishing my book, and sat on SO MANY EPISODES. So we'll be releasing them soon. Don't forget Spoilers Club, June 25!
• Also: Goodreads STATION ETERNITY Giveaway (open through June 30)

S18 Ep40

• 2022 Word Count: 73335 ?? (are we even in the same ballpark?)
• Writing Retreat coming at the end of May

Good News Good News

• Team Rejection count: 177

Main Topic: Interview with Gwynne Garfinkle

• Debut novel: Can’t Find My Way Home by Gwynne Garfinkle 
• The Bishop’s Wife
• Writing while managing chronic illnesses that make it harder to get writing done
• Website: https://gwynnegarfinkle.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/gwynnega
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gwynnega/

  Links

• Merch Shop
• Mur on Twitter
• Mur on Instagram
• Mur on Youtube
• Mur's newsletter, The Hot Mic
• Support via Patreon or Ko-Fi!
• John Anealio on Bandcamp
• I Should Be Writing tea blends

Twitch schedule for June:

• June 1-24: ON BREAK- I may pop in for a stream but nothing scheduled
• Sat June 25: 6:00pm EDT: Spoilers Club with John Scalzi to talk The Kaiju Preservation Society

Coming in July: Return of podcasts, and a live RPG play of Brindlewood Bay!

May 19, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 40 | murverse.com
Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License

Pre-show Notes

• I've been stressed out finishing my book, and sat on SO MANY EPISODES. So we'll be releasing them soon. Don't forget Spoilers Club, June 25!
• Also: Goodreads STATION ETERNITY Giveaway (open through June 30)
• Total raw wordcount for 2022: 118656

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• 2022 Word Count: 73335 ??
• Writing Retreat coming at the end of May

Good News Good News

• Marketing Department Station Eternity social media artwork FTW!
• Team Rejection count: 177

Main Topic: Don’t wait. Don’t hesitate. Trust yourself and your instincts

• Picking and choosing more new ideas and projects to work on is necessary
• Trying and failing is part of the process (not a waste of time, that’s where Summer gets stuck)
• Experimentation. Try it, don’t take it too seriously
• Seeing the opportunities and also making the opportunities
• The fiction writing related account on Twitter is @Azure_Writing

  Links

• Merch Shop
• Mur on Twitter
• Mur on Instagram
• Mur on Youtube
• Mur's newsletter, The Hot Mic
• Support via Patreon or Ko-Fi!
• John Anealio on Bandcamp
• I Should Be Writing tea blends

Twitch schedule for June:

• June 1-24: ON BREAK- I may pop in for a stream but nothing scheduled
• Sat June 25: 6:00pm EDT: Spoilers Club with John Scalzi to talk The Kaiju Preservation Society

Coming in July: Return of podcasts, and a live RPG play of Brindlewood Bay!

May 17, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 39 | murverse.com
Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License

Pre-show Notes

• I've been stressed out finishing my book, and sat on SO MANY EPISODES. So we'll be releasing them soon. Don't forget Spoilers Club, June 25! 
• Also: Goodreads STATION ETERNITY Giveaway (open through June 30)
• Total raw wordcount for 2022: 118656

S18 Ep38

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• 2022 Word Count: 71335 ??
• Writing Retreat coming at the end of May

Good News Good News

• Team Rejection count: 177

Main Topic: Editing, Cross Referencing, and Matching Numbers

• Timelines in your stories can be more convoluted (ie, work) than the plotting
• Cross referencing can be harder without unique keywords
• Mur really wants you to learn from the mistakes that have caused her suffering
• Handy Tools:
• Scrivener https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview
• Aeon Timeline https://timeline.app/narrative/

Links

• Merch Shop
• Mur on Twitter
• Mur on Instagram
• Mur on Youtube
• Mur's newsletter, The Hot Mic
• Support via Patreon or Ko-Fi!
• John Anealio on Bandcamp
• I Should Be Writing tea blends

Twitch schedule for June:

• June 1-24: ON BREAK- I may pop in for a stream but nothing scheduled
• Sat June 25: 6:00pm EDT: Spoilers Club with John Scalzi to talk The Kaiju Preservation Society

Coming in July: Return of podcasts, and a live RPG play of Brindlewood Bay!

May 10, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 38 | murverse.com
Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License

Please Note,While Solicitor Kenner is A lawyer, she's still not YOUR lawyer, so do not take anything said here as direct legal advice.   Open

• 2022 Word Count: 68178 ??
• Writing Retreat coming at the end of May

Good News Good News

• Team Rejection count: 171
• Sourdough starters growing up and ready to go to school

Main Topic: Your Writing, Copyright and Intellectual Properties

• Trademarks, and referring to brands in fiction
• Fair Use: The Rules, The Limitations, and Usages
• Titles cannot be copyrighted
• The defenses of intellectual properties, the good and the overreach

Links

• Escape Artists Podcasts
• Escape Artists Twitch Stream
• Merch Shop
• Mur on Twitter
• Mur on Instagram
• Mur on Youtube
• Mur's newsletter, The Hot Mic
• Support via Patreon or Ko-Fi!
• John Anealio on Bandcamp

Twitch schedule for May:

• 16th Mon: 12:00pm Ditch Diggers with Matt Wallace
  
• 17th Tues: 3:00pm I Should Be Writing
• 19th Wed: CANCELED FOR MAY
• 20th Thurs: 3:00pm I Should Be Writing
• 23rd Mon: 4:30pm Ditch Diggers with ??? (Live from writing retreat at the beach!)
• 24th Tues: 3:00pm I Should Be Writing (Live from writing retreat at the beach!)
• 26th Thurs: 3:00pm I Should Be Writing (Live from writing retreat at the beach!)
• 30th Mon: CANCELED - VACATION
• 31 Tues: CANCELED - VACATION

All times EDT

May 5, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 37 | murverse.com
Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License

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• 2022 Word Count: 68178
• Writing Retreat coming in May

Good News Good News

• Team Rejection count: 150

Main Topic: On Supporting Characters

• Whydunit is more important than Whodunit
• The Afterparty on Apple TV
• It’s good to focus on moving the plot along, but think about doing it well
• Babylon 5 “A View From the Gallery”, and the adventures of Mack and Bo.
• The Contagonist as Catalyst
• Build the back stories for the minor characters just as carefully as the main characters

Links

• Merch Shop
• Mur on Twitter
• Mur on Instagram
• Mur on Youtube
• Mur's newsletter, The Hot Mic
• Support via Patreon or Ko-Fi!
• John Anealio on Bandcamp

May 3, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 36 | murverse.com
Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License