The podcast for wanna-be fiction writers by a writer who’s still learning. Writer Mur Lafferty discusses rejection, cover letters and getting the oomph to keep going.
Your questions answered! Well, a couple of them, anyway.
Also, I mention in the podcast that I was going to do a Cafe Press store, well, ta da! It’s live! And yes, I did include the thong, just for the hell of it.
Thanks for listening! You should be writing.
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Gwendalenia | Oct 18, 2005 | Reply
Hello:
I listened to your pod cast today and fully agree with you about the Artist Way book. It’s great to get you going creatively but I don’t really buy into the whole spirtuality aspect.
I bought the book awhile back and am currently involved with a group at the Writer’s Village University website, http://www.wvu.com, which discusses that book and Julia Cameron’s other works.
I’ve started listening to your pod cast about a month ago and like it. Listening to you is like listening to a successful writing teacher. I say successful because I had a writing teacher in college who was very familiar with the rejection process but not the publishing process, I found that a tad discouraging.
I have some one question if you don’t mind. Do you have to be a gamer to writer for RPG books?
Like everyone else with an internet connection at home I have a website that I started recently. Let me know what you think (if you have time to check it out.)
Pavlina | Oct 20, 2005 | Reply
I haven’t listened to the ‘cast yet, but I did check out the store. holy Prolific Products! That’s a lot of ISBW stuff.
Mur Lafferty | Oct 20, 2005 | Reply
THanks a lot, gwendalenia. Glad it’s helping you.
I think not being a gamer would hurt you, if you’ve never gamed. The way to get noticed is to play a game until you see what you’d like to add or change, then do your own version. Run it at cons, make your own site, etc. I was extremely lucky in that someone respected in the industry knew I gamed and knew I was an OK writer, so his recommendation carried a lot of weight. But most people need to game at conventions and get on the radar of the developers to get jobs.
Pavlina, yeah, I guess I went a bit overboard, but I just figured I’d accept evrything but the stuff that the logo didn’t fit on (like the round buttons) and the stuff I can’t stand (like the dog shirt and the teddy bear.) It’s really easy to set up this stuff, so I figured there’s no harm in an ISBW beer stein.
Robert | Oct 21, 2005 | Reply
The Artist Way book is a good way to jump start your creativity. I went through it a few years ago. I thought some of the exercises were useless, but if you take nothing away from it other than doing morning pages every day, it will help prime the creative pump.
Great podcasts. I’m a freelance writer and have published a guide to software. This year, I’m trying NaNoWriMo and keeping a writer’s journal at Mystics of the Ordinary (I’ve added a link to ISBW).
Working Man | Oct 27, 2005 | Reply
Mur,
I too used The Artist’s Way book a few years back. You mentioned in the podcast you thought it was a little heavy on the spiritual. I looked at the exercise as a way to go into one’s self and explore, to find the spirituality within. If it is too spiritual for folks maybe it can be looked at as awakening your inner muse.
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