Old I Should Be Writing episodes are new again with classic podcasts from 2005! If you wonder what I Should Be Writing sounded like back in the old days, when podcasting was new and before I was published, look no farther! I’m releasing most of my old episodes with commentary, and maybe some new interviews with old friends. The shows will also be released with transcriptions for free, but Patreon and Substack supporters will get the episodes first, and annotated transcripts too!

I Should’ve Been Writing S1 Ep4

Episode four, and my very first interview! I meet with Mike at Dragoncon and use my tiny digital recorder to get the audio, which I’ve tried to clean up.

Transcript

Mike Stackpole: this is one of the big things that everybody who reads and contemplates writing usually runs into and I still run into this with reading really, really good writers, is you read this stuff and you go, Oh, my God, I could never do that. And what most writers don’t realize was that that book that you’ve gotten your hands went through at least five different editions, you know, think about a magician who gets to make the card disappear five times, and only has to be right on one of those, you know, in the last time, if you can’t get it right after five shots at it, then then you really shouldn’t be doing it. But we get to revise stuff.

* Music: Dana Countryman

* Michael A. Stackpole’s books

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CREDITS

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June 21, 2023 | Season 1 Ep 4 | murverse.com

“Revisiting the Michael A. Stackpole Interview” by Mur Lafferty

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