[NOTE: this episode has some NSFW language]

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• Welcome back from the wilderness, Matt F’n Wallace!
• Scrivener will indeed tell you how many words you wrote in a year
• Mur is making progress on Midsolar Murders Book 2
• Matt is working on a video game he can’t talk about yet, and we await Savage Crowns

Good News Good News

• Hugo nominations are open for 2022
• Team Rejection count: now at 14

Main Topic: Matt’s New Middle Grade Book

• This is the book Matt always wanted as a kid, so now he’s written it for himself & everyone else
• Using the word “fat” and all the baggage different people bring to it
• Relating to Vincent D’Onofrio and Sammo Hung in their acting and action roles
• How to approach writing fat characters: Writing the Other
• (written by Hugo-nominated author Meg Elison. You really should read her award nominated novella "The Pill.")
• Matt's page, and the Fat Kid Guide page

January 27, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 8 | murverse.com Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty | BY-NC-SA 3.5 License