Wanting to switch to a new project when things get rough is a normal feeling, but what do you DO when you feel like that?

We are supposed to learn from mistakes, so why are we so hard on ourselves when we make them?

Conflict shows us how people relate to each other, much better than a good day will. Conflicts include everything from an injury, to lack of sleep, to fights with significant others, to rude folks on the road, and then the big one with the meteor coming to destroy the Earth.

There is a lot of contradictory advice on the internet. Even the same articles/lists will have contradictory advice. And when are looking for specific advice, the pithy Do this, no, wait, don't do this blog posts are infuriating. So how do you know who to trust when it comes to looking for advice?

I'm delighted to welcome interviews back to ISBW with my good friend SB Divya. She's my co-editor on Escape Pod, but her first full-length novel, Machinehood, came out in March! We talk about how that's exciting and what it's like to have a debut during Covid.

Once you're done with your novel or story, what do you do? Edits? Submissions? Beta readers? I go through a step-by-step list of suggestions.

People talk about character and plot and climax, but no one covers how novel structure is needed to put it all together.

Had a personal emergency and was unprepared, so the audience and Twitter questions keep me going!

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Matt and Mur come to you live from their separate yet equal tanning salons in Ditch Diggers Manor. Matt makes a very random yet amazing Yan Can Cook reference, although Martin Yan is NOT the topic of this episode. Mur disrupts the usual Ditch Diggers end-of-episode shilling format to boost Matt’s newly released middle-grade novel […]