Shows From the Murverse

The Ditch Diggers come to you from San Jose, California for their 4th Annual Ditch Diggers Live! from WorldCon 76 with special guests, authors KM Szpara and Margaret Dunlap! Matt and Mur put Kellan and Margaret through the first ever Ditch Diggers’ Choose Your Own Publishing Career, forcing them to assume the roles of an […]

Mur in September apologizes for Mur and Matt back in July when this episode was recorded. There are reasons, and lots more new episodes are coming soon! Matt and Mur come to you live from Jeff Goldblum’s Thirst Fountain. Matt explains Jeff Goldblum thirst tweets to Mur. Before segueing masterfully into the topic of the […]

The reasons behind the lateness are many, and I’m sorry. But my 400th episode- golly! Did you know you could have heard an expanded edition of this show yesterday if you supported the Patreon?

I turned in SOLO edits, and working on next projects. I had an epiphany about the concept of my need to do little things like cleaning and email before I start writing for the day, and why that is bad.

Mur and Matt come to you live after abandoning Morgan Freeman’s elaborate and fictitious estate (because, once again, the Ditch Diggers believe women) and tunneling from the interstate (for reasons Mur explains) to Jeff Goldblum’s modest empire. Or possibly Jodie Foster’s underground lair. It’s all very complicated, but we’re working on it. After a typically […]

I’m back, talking about brains shutting down and dealing with it on a creator level. I sound a little down in this one but I assure you, I’m doing great. Did you know you could have heard this last week if you supported the Patreon?

Welcome to the second edition of the 20-Minute Ditch! Because you’re making money moves (that’s from Matt’s introduction, which he will probably not be allowed to make anymore). On this episode the Ditch Diggers talk about professional grudges. Can they be healthy? Can a certain level of forgiveness be unhealthy? It’s complicated stuff, but somehow […]

NOTE FROM MATT AND MUR: So, yeah. This episode, as well as next week’s 20-Minute Ditch, were both recorded before rampant sexual harassment allegations against Morgan Freeman became public knowledge. The Ditch Diggers are an organization that believes women and has no desire or intention to prop up harassers or abuser culture, accused or otherwise. […]

Welcome to the first 20-Minute Ditch! On their inaugural truncated episode, Matt and Mur talk about deadline management do’s and don’t’s for freelance writers! Also, Matt has a metronome, Mur has a long riff on “Footprints,” and will be talking mainly to herself!

And I talk about one of the epiphanies I’ve had after… sixteen years of writing. It’s embarrassing. We talk how to approach your structure with examples of A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones to the TV watching crowd) and Stranger Things. Feedback discusses networking, beta readers, and more. See me at the […]