Shows From the Murverse

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15000 down, 35000 to go

Evil Mur has begun to swear. Not a lot. But I put the explicit tag on there just in case. 

Getting behind? There are three things you can do. One of them is easy, one is SUPER easy, and one takes a whole lot of work 

Mentioned: Natania Barron

Have you friended Mur on NaNoWriMo or 4thewords yet?

Don’t forget Chaos Terminal is finally on shelves!

The daily podcast is usually for supporters only, but this year I’m putting it out for everyone! If you like it, consider supporting with a paid subscription to either Patreon or Substack to get the exclusive episodes after November!

Please remember that Evil Mur is evil and gives terrible advice. Evil Mur will not be responsible for failed manuscripts or vehicular manslaughter.

Do not listen to Evil Mur. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA, all other rights reserved by Mur Lafferty

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11666 down, 38333 to go

Why are you doing this? Also, don’t forget to get to yiour friendly local book store today! Chaos Terminal is out!

7100 / 50000 words. 14% done! (as of Nov 5)

Have you friended Mur on NaNoWriMo or 4thewords yet?

Don’t forget Chaos Terminal is out TODAY!

The daily podcast is usually for supporters only, but this year I’m putting it out for everyone! If you like it, consider supporting with a paid subscription to either Patreon or Substack to get the exclusive episodes after November!

Please remember that Evil Mur is evil and gives terrible advice. Evil Mur will not be responsible for failed manuscripts or hours lost to reading.

Do not listen to Evil Mur. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA, all other rights reserved by Mur Lafferty

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10000 down, 40000 to go

No, seriously, y’all.

Time to quit.

 

7100 / 50000 words. 14% done! (as of Nov 5)

Have you friended Mur on NaNoWriMo or 4thewords yet?

Don’t forget Chaos Terminal comes out November 7!

The daily podcast is usually for supporters only, but this year I’m putting it out for everyone! If you like it, consider supporting with a paid subscription to either Patreon or Substack to get the exclusive episodes after November!

Please remember that Evil Mur is evil and gives terrible advice. Evil Mur will not be responsible for failed manuscripts or visits from Men in Black.

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8333 down, 41666 to go

Post your work online as you go! Nothing bad will happen, and all feedback will be good.

7100 / 50000 words. 14% done! (as of Nov 5)

Have you friended Mur on NaNoWriMo or 4thewords yet?

Don’t forget Chaos Terminal comes out November 7!

The daily podcast is usually for supporters only, but this year I’m putting it out for everyone! If you like it, consider supporting with a paid subscription to either Patreon or Substack to get the exclusive episodes after November!

Please remember that Evil Mur is evil and gives terrible advice. Evil Mur will not be responsible for failed manuscripts or one star reviews.

Do not listen to Evil Mur. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA, all other rights reserved by Mur Lafferty

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6666 down, 45000 to go

Everything is legal during NaNoWriMo, including plagiarizing.

Right?

 

7201 / 50000 words. 14% done!

Get your wordcount meter at Languageisavirus.com

Have you friended Mur on NaNoWriMo or 4thewords yet?

Don’t forget Chaos Terminal comes out November 7!

The daily podcast is usually for supporters only, but this year I’m putting it out for everyone! If you like it, consider supporting with a paid subscription to either Patreon or Substack to get the exclusive episodes after November!

Please remember that Evil Mur is evil and gives terrible advice. Evil Mur will not be responsible for failed manuscripts or visits from Men in Black.

(yikes, I didn’t include the podcast in the episode! Fixed now.)

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5000 down, 45000 to go

Are you behind already? Seriously? Getting despondent?

Quit.

Because there certainly aren’t any ways to catch back up, and Evil Mur will go over all those impossibilities in this episode.

2000 / 50000 words. 4% done!

Get your wordcount meter at Languageisavirus.com

Have you friended Mur on NaNoWriMo or 4thewords yet?

Don’t forget Chaos Terminal comes out November 7!

The daily podcast is usually for supporters only, but this year I’m putting it out for everyone! If you like it, consider supporting with a paid subscription to either Patreon or Substack to get the exclusive episodes after November!

Please remember that Evil Mur is evil and gives terrible advice. Evil Mur will not be responsible for failed manuscripts or devoured cats.

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3333 down, 46666 to go

Sometimes we writers have to make difficult decisions. Evil Mur is sure you’ll make the right one.

 

2000 / 50000 words. 4% done!

Get your wordcount meter at Languageisavirus.com

 

Have you friended Mur on NaNoWriMo or 4thewords yet?

Don’t forget Chaos Terminal comes out November 7!

The daily podcast is usually for supporters only, but this year I’m putting it out for everyone! If you like it, consider supporting with a paid subscription to either Patreon or Substack to get the exclusive episodes after November!

Please remember that Evil Mur is evil and gives terrible advice. Evil Mur will not be responsible for failed manuscripts or devoured cats.

 

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Evil Mur is here with Day 1 of the unnamed I Should Be Writing NaNoWriMo podcast. I’ll post Day 2 later tonight.

0 down, 50000

Of course I stumble in posting the first freaking day of the month. So today you get two episodes.

4thewords.com is the best place to lose yourself this month and still feel like you’re writing. You won’t write much, but boy you’ll have fun!

 

2000 / 50000 words. 4% done!

Get your wordcount meter at Languageisavirus.com

Have you friended Mur on NaNoWriMo or 4thewords yet?

Don’t forget Chaos Terminal comes out November 7!

The daily podcast is usually for supporters only, but this year I’m putting it out for everyone! If you like it, consider supporting with a paid subscription to either Patreon or Substack to get the exclusive episodes after November!

Please remember that Evil Mur is evil and gives terrible advice. Evil Mur will not be responsible for choices you make in November.

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Evil Mur is here with Day 0 of the unnamed I Should Be Writing NaNoWriMo podcast. I’ll post Day 1 later tonight.

My current wordcount: 0 (cause this was recorded on October 31)

Streamed live on Twitch! Come join me for cowriting and other shenanigans!

Schedule:

* M 2pm- Co-writing

* T 2pm- co-writing, then ISBW*

* W 2pm- Baldur’s Gate (or co-writing**)

* Th 2pm- co-writing then ISBW*

* F 3pm- Baldur’s Gate (or co-writing**)

*The show will still stream at 3pm.

**co-writing will happen if I don’t hit wordcount/podcast count that day.

Video is live on Youtube!

“NaNoWriMo Prep with Valerie Valdes!” is brought to you in large part by by my supporters, who received an early, expanded version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon or Substack!

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ISBW S19 Ep29

NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow! Are you participating? Are you ready? Author, editor, and long time NaNoWriMo municipal liaison Valerie Valdes joins us to talk about her new projects and how to tackle NaNoWriMo!

Don’t forget, Chaos Terminal comes out in ONE WEEK.

Transcript

Valerie Valdes 10:08:

…I wonder if there’s like enough NaNoWriMo people at this point who are published writers that it’s kind of lost some of that sheen of the amateur. Somehow I don’t know. But I definitely haven’t heard that as much as I feel like I also would occasionally see that kind of grump on social media. But yeah, I think that, that more and more writers, the benefit of NaNoWriMo, even if you’re a professional writer, and you write 100%, of the time all year round, is that you’re doing this together with other people who are also doing this thing. And even professional writers, a lot of them don’t write 50,000 words in a month, a lot of times, it’s a much slower pace, and it’s spread out over a longer period of time. 

* Home page

* Where Peace is Lost

* Valerie’s secret project: The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (A Magic The Gathering novella!)

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