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- 00:07: ISBW #123
- 01:24: Words, pants, and my WorldCon schedule!
- 03:50: Promo: Movie Mantras
- 05:27: Art vs Popularity - This blog post says Hugo nominees are mediocre and fandom are wrong for choosing these books. These two blog posts say the first was out of line for a couple of different reasons (note, neither complained that his opinion of their own work was objectionable.) Your thoughts?
- 12:30: Promo: The Casting Game
- 14:40: Greg van Eekhout (Greg on Twitter) interview, we talk about his novel, Norse Code. We talk mythology and workshops and clams. John Scalzi’s blog post about Fantasy and Science Fiction’s new workshop.
- 37:37: Promo: JC Hutchins’ Personal Effects: Dark Art
- 39:14: Feedback: Time passes… how? Removing submissions from editor consideration, novellas, writing licensed work, The Secrets podcast, podcasting necessity, innovate, rewrite help, Holly Lisle interview, PANTS, and how to deal with writing monthly.
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Do you have any advice for getting people involved in online novel writing? I’d like to have more participation in the story than just having them read it.
Any thoughts?
Last week I did a series of posts talking about chick lit: the bad rap chick lit has gotten, chick lit vs. women’s fiction, etc. And at the core, I think a large part of the problem is the “art vs. popularity” problem. Because anything fun must be garbage, right? Argh.
I’m obviously going to have to write more about this NEXT week…
I’m listening right now and I just heard Mr. Van Eekhout’s saying that he would write every morning before work, because he hated his 9-5 job and would come home feeling drained and with no energy. That is exactly how I feel every day after work, and so hearing that was very inspiring.
I’m not a morning person, so I’ve been trying to write before bed, but perhaps I should make the extra effort to write in the mornings, because his reasoning made a lot of sense.
I just found out about your podcast via podfeed.net. Good stuff! I thought you might want to know that your listing there (http://www.podfeed.net/podcast/I+Should+Be+Writing/4059) links to your old, inactive blogspot address. Fortunately, your current website was easy to find via Google.