ISBW #11 - Jealousy
I’m back from the dead, thanks for all the well-wishes and the patience. I really appreciate it.
- I finished my novel, Keepsie’s Bar! And… it feels anticlimactic
- My essays are now being collected in a podiobook called Lessons from a Geek Fu Master
- Good luck NaNoWriMo participants
- I’ll be participating in NaDruWriNi tomorrow night.
- This show’s main topic is about Jealousy and the evil shadow it casts over your writing
- Storyteller, by Kate Wilhelm
- Dragon Page Cover to Cover interview with Ms. Wilhelm
- Clarion, Odyssey, and Viable Paradise workshops
- Show the world you should be writing with your ISBW swag
- Hear my fiction over at Geek Fu Action Grip
Thanks for listening! You should be writing.
About the Author: I am a writer and podcast producer, writing for magazines and RPGs. I am a wanna-be fiction writer with several short fiction, comic scripts, and one novel sale. Playing For Keeps will be out August, '08.
Anonymous | Nov 5, 2005 | Reply
I listened to Mur’s fiction (Barry Koleman - part 1) on her latest “Geek Fu Action Grip” and I thought it was great! Everyone who is listening to “I Should Be Writing” should give it a listen.
I think it was an excellent “chapter 1″ and I can’t wait for the next installment.
–Richard in Macon GA
Anonymous | Nov 7, 2005 | Reply
Mur,
May I be picky and point out that your show was about envy, not jealousy.
Congratulations on completing the first draft of your novel.
Am I right in thinking that in journalism one writes a piece longer than required and then edits it down for improved pace; and does this apply for longer pieces like novels?
I enjoy the ‘casts very much.
Lewis, UK.
Mur Lafferty | Nov 7, 2005 | Reply
Lewis,
For this novel I know I need to add things, because as I wrote it I realized later on that something was missing earlier if I wanted to write what I wanted to.
That didn’t seem to make sense.
If I write that Mark, Carrie, and Samantha are good friends and do everything together, and then later in the novel I realize I want to give them another friend, Bob, then I need to go back on rewrite and figure out where Bob fits into the earlier chapters, thus adding more.
Besides the fact that I know my last few chapters need a hell of a lot more action and description.