I Should've Been Writing

By: Mur Lafferty
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  • Summary

  • A rerun of I Should Be Writing, the longest running writing podcast on the Internet, complete with commentary, new interviews, and transcripts! Look back at 2005 before host Mur had ever sold a story, and podcasting was barely a year old!
    Copyright 2005-2023 Mur Lafferty || BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Episodes
  • [ISvBW] Who Knew Rewriting Would Still Be Hard?

    [ISvBW] Who Knew Rewriting Would Still Be Hard?
    Jul 18 2023

    I Should've Been Writing S1 Ep5

    It's September, 2005, and I have breaking news- rewriting is still difficult for me. I'm at a point where I guess I have to just accept some things and move on. It will always be difficult.

    Transcript

    Mur Lafferty 8:00: When I have bad days with my novel, I just tell myself, the first draft is allowed to suck. First drafts are always allowed to suck, because the first draft is not what you're going to be sending the editor.

    Music: Dana Countryman

    I Should've Been Writing is copyright Mur Lafferty, 2005-2023. BY-NC-ND.
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    20 mins
  • [ISvBW] Revisiting the Michael A. Stackpole Interview

    [ISvBW] Revisiting the Michael A. Stackpole Interview
    Jun 27 2023

    S1 Ep4

    Episode four, and my very first interview! I meet with Mike at Dragoncon and use my tiny digital recorder to get the audio, which I've tried to clean up. 

    Transcript

    Mike Stackpole: this is one of the big things that everybody who reads and contemplates writing usually runs into and I still run into this with reading really, really good writers, is you read this stuff and you go, Oh, my God, I could never do that. And what most writers don't realize was that that book that you've gotten your hands went through at least five different editions, you know, think about a magician who gets to make the card disappear five times, and only has to be right on one of those, you know, in the last time, if you can't get it right after five shots at it, then then you really shouldn't be doing it. But we get to revise stuff.
    • Music: Dana Countryman
    • Michael A. Stackpole's books
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    24 mins
  • [ISvBW] Submission Guidelines Deep Dive

    [ISvBW] Submission Guidelines Deep Dive
    Jun 21 2023
    Episode three and we have my very first "oops, didn't get this up on time." But in the olden days, I still attended DragonCon and I was still writing on many projects I've forgotten about. Then, submission guidelines!   Transcript
    • Music: Dana Countryman
    • RIV Ralan.com
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    21 mins

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