Mur Lafferty's Blog, page 11
March 21, 2023
[ISBW] Peeking At the Inner Critic
March 7, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 13 | murverse.com Copyright 2023, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
March 20, 2023
[ISBW] SB Divya Talks the SF Event Horizon
S19 Ep12
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Station Eternity gets a second printing! Chaos Terminal can be pre-ordered! Team Rejection Count: 30Main Topic: SB Divya is here!
Divya stops by to talk about her new book, MERU Diving into the science and physics about the universe, plus some genetic engineering Talking with experts who can fill in the knowledge gaps for your story Breaking the story rules can be easier in fantasy than in science fictionLinks
https://sbdivya.com https://twitter.com/divyastweetsMarch 2, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 12 | murverse.com Copyright 2023, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
March 10, 2023
[ISBW] Gardening Your Writing Life
S.19 Ep.9
How quickly does a succulent grow? Does a writer grow any faster?
Links:
The Hot Mic Socials: Twitter, Mastodon, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Focusmate Station Eternity is OUT by the way. Support via Patreon! John Anealio on Bandcamp I Should Be Writing tea blends Support local book stores! Station Eternity, Six Wakes, Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition and more! OR Get signed books from my friendly local store, Flyleaf Books!February 22, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 09 | murverse.com Copyright 2023, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
March 9, 2023
[ISBW] Realism isn't good narrative
February 23, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 10 | murverse.com Copyright 2023, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
March 8, 2023
[ISBW] Breaking the Rules
March 1, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 11 | murverse.com Copyright 2023, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
February 24, 2023
[ISBW] Green M&Ms and Adverbs
S19 Ep08 Good News Good News
Station Eternity gets a second printing! Team Rejection Count: 19 Podcast transcript (zip of pdf, docx, txt files)Main Topic: Are Adverbs Really That Bad?
About that writers advice that says “get rid of adverbs”... it goes deeper than that Pay attention to your work, and your sentence structures Shake the story up by making your characters want something; small or personal can be better than epic and world-shattering Jason Pargin TikTokLinks:
The Hot Mic Socials: Twitter, Mastodon, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Focusmate Station Eternity is OUT by the way. Support via Patreon! John Anealio on Bandcamp I Should Be Writing tea blends Support local book stores! Station Eternity, Six Wakes, Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition and more! OR Get signed books from my friendly local store, Flyleaf Books!February 16, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 08 | murverse.com Copyright 2023, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
February 17, 2023
[ISBW] 34 Minutes
We are sponsored by Scribophile! Check out their writing classes here!
I did a Google search (uh, AFTER I recorded this,) and found that the writer I reference in this podcast is Eugene Schwartz. You can read more about his method in this post.
His magic number was 33, but I'm keeping mine at 34 because he was a copywriter and I write fiction so they're one minute different. (It's like being one louder.)
Getting bored is important to creating, except that technology has not allowed us to be bored for at least the last 15 years.
I also consider my upcoming milestone birthday.
February 16, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 07 | murverse.com Copyright 2023, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
February 15, 2023
[ISBW] Words to Throw Away
S19 Ep06
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Station Eternity gets a second printing! Team Rejection Count: 19Main Topic: There are No Wasted Words
Do you really need that many words before you get to the real story? “In media res” isn’t always the best way to start the action/story Ask questions of your characters to get going Free writing can loosen the words/ideas Playing with character names Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka (Edge of Tomorrow is movie adaptation)Links:
The Hot Mic Socials: Twitter, Mastodon, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Focusmate Station Eternity is OUT by the way. Support via Patreon! John Anealio on Bandcamp I Should Be Writing tea blends Support local book stores! Station Eternity, Six Wakes, Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition and more! OR Get signed books from my friendly local store, Flyleaf Books!February 9, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 06 | murverse.com Copyright 2023, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
February 9, 2023
[ISBW] Emotions Rear Their Ugly Head
S19 Ep5
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Chaos Terminal final draft is accepted! Team Rejection Count: 19Main Topic: Emotions Again
I talk about how emotions trip us up- and by "us" I mean "me" time and time again. Brave Mur on TikTokLinks:
The Hot Mic Socials: Twitter, Mastodon, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Focusmate Station Eternity is OUT by the way. Support via Patreon! John Anealio on Bandcamp I Should Be Writing tea blends Support local book stores! Station Eternity, Six Wakes, Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition and more! OR Get signed books from my friendly local store, Flyleaf Books!February 7, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 05 | murverse.com Copyright 2023, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
February 7, 2023
[ISBW] Ask Evil Mur
S19 Ep4
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Station Eternity gets a second printing! Team Rejection Count: 19Main Topic: Evil Mur Appears and Shares Essential Writing Advice
The endless fount of writing wisdom that is Evil Mur was summoned for her first appearance in 2023, and she answers all questions about short stories and novels, submitting to agents, managing plots and characters, crafting realistic dialogue, and more Copyediting and Proofreading (this is the program Summer the producer is in now): ACES: The Society for EditingLinks
Lava Fountain Pens Jason Sanford File 770 Socials: Twitter, Mastodon, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, FocusmateFebruary 2, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 04 | murverse.com Copyright 2023, Mur Lafferty | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License
