Podcast: I Should Be Writing

Writing interviews and how-tos from a SF writer who’s still learning.

[ISBW] [Bite-Sized] NaNoWriMo Is Marathon Training

Recorded October 22, 2022 What to do when your NaNo project makes everything else in your life depressing?  What would you change if you were marathon training? You’d change the time you got up, the time you went to bed, what you ate, when you…

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[ISBW] [Bite Sized] Emotion and Death in Fiction

Let’s ask the tough questions. How do you make a dead baby funny? How do you make a cozy murder mystery cozy when there’s a decapitated corpse in chapter 4? It’s all about emotion.   This works for sex too, which I don’t mention. In the 90s,…

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[ISBW] [Bite Sized] Doomsd– I mean NaNoWriMo Prepping

S18 Ep62 Time to talk prep, but honestly, the biggest obstacle in front of you is your existing day-to-day life. What will have to move aside? Where to find me! October 20, 2022 | Season 18 Ep 62 | murverse.com Copyright 2022, Mur Lafferty | CC…

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[ISBW] NaNoWriMo, Habits, and Change

S18 Ep60: NaNoWriMo, Habits and Change ISBW PSAs 2022 Total Word Count: ??? Solo RPG project Good News Good News Team Rejection count: 338 Main Topic: NaNoWriMo Cometh The distractions of emotional expectations The untapped powers of the random…

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[ISBW] [Bite Sized] Kickoff Daily Show!

I’ve gone to doing a daily show to get in shape for my yearly daily show. The daily show will be in the main feed until Oct 31, but then in November it goes to Patreon only. for only $1 a month for the next two weeks! In this tiny episode we talk…

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[ISBW] Desideria Mesa and Heritage and History

Recorded live Sept 29. 2022 My entire production team is either sick, or has a sick loved one, so show notes will be minimal.  I talked with about , her historical magical book about Kansas City, Prohibition, and Mexican magic!  by the…

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[ISBW] Guest Gwendolyn Kiste and Historical Horror

Good News Good News Team Rejection count: 328 Main Topic: Gwendolyn Kiste, “Reluctant Immortals” Gwendolyn talks about the “reluctant immortals” in her new novel, well-known characters from Classic Literature Brainstorming is work Questions…

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[ISBW] Spoilers Club, T. Kingfisher Talks What Moves the Dead

S18 Ep57 NOTE- we had a number of technical difficulties, including a part where the stream drops off and then returns. Please take note.    I can’t remember if we swore in this one, but just in case, this has an EXPLICIT tag.    

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[ISBW] Tanvi Berwah and Writing The Hard Stuff

ISBW S18 Ep56: Guest Tanvi Berwah and Writing Myths Good News Good News Team Rejection count: 328 Main Topic: Tanvi Berwah, “Monsters Born and Made” Tanvi talks about her new novel, the Indian & Arabic myths her story’s monsters are based…

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[ISBW] Evil Mur AMA

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