ISBW #44 - Interview with Victoria Strauss
00:01 I Should Be Writing #44: July 16, 2006
01:14 I got into Viable Paradise!
01:30 I Look Forward to Remembering You aired on Escape Pod last week.
01:54 I started a new short story and got a rejection.
02:16 Steve DuPont should be writing
02:35 Interview with Victoria Strauss, author of The Awakened City and contributor to the popular site Writer Beware and blog.
23:51 Paul S. Jenkins should be writing
24:20 New anthro magazine market!
24:47 Thanks for the support regarding my novel. Mike asks a question about editing. Chris asks about e-queries.
30:00 Lisa has a voice comment about artist’s block.
34:15 Thanks for listening! Welcome if you’re here from Media Bistro. Next week I’m at TriNocCon, hopefully I can get interviews.
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.
Kendall | Jul 19, 2006 | Reply
OMG I’m so looking forward to listening to the Victoria Strauss interview; The Burning Land & The Awakened City were amazing! Yay you, Mur, for interviewing her!
BTW your link for Strauss has a space at the beginning, which messes it up in (at least some) browsers.
Scott M. Sandridge | Jul 19, 2006 | Reply
Great interview. And your daughter waking up and saying “You should be writing!” was pure gold!
Matthew | Jul 19, 2006 | Reply
Thank you, Mur, for helping us newbie writers with our fears.
Great interview, and good links. I’ll be looking hard at all the agents out there.
Keep up the great work!
Marie | Jul 19, 2006 | Reply
You don’t have to stick to an outline!!!!
BUT……… It focuses you when you’ve got your butt in the chair. If you’re in that chair and you’re writing, that’s when you come up with other ideas to change your outline with. If you’re not getting anything down on the page, that doesn’t happen or doesn’t happen easily.
The first version of outlines doesn’t have to be very specific.
If you think of something better for what comes next, you adjust and continue. Fix what was already written later.
That’s the only way I’ve gotten 1 draft done and am nearly finished my 2nd first draft. I’ve got less than 2 chapters left to write and the plan for the last scenes is still changing.
Harbormaster | Jul 20, 2006 | Reply
I enjoyed the podcast and interview with Victoria Strauss. Great advice. Good luck to you!
Harbormaster | Jul 24, 2006 | Reply
I enjoyed the interview with Victoria Strauss. Good luck to you!