I Should Be Writing- the PDF
In the feed you will find the first document in a series I’m releasing called, strangely enough, I Should Be Writing. You will get periodic files from me expounding on what I talk about on the show. It will probably be enough to eventually release as an ebook, but for now you’ll get it in free PDF form.
In this PDF:
- Intro- my writing past.
- Chapter 1- It’s OK to suck
- Interlude: Excuses 1
This is released under a CC BY-NC-SA license. Please feel free to print, distribute, even change as long as you release under the same license. Also, it’s in PDF form now, but if you want to change it to an ebook friendly format, let me know and I’ll post a link here. (I tried to do mobi – turns out I have no skill in it and it looks like crap.)
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Carrie | Jul 15, 2009 | Reply
Any formats that are friendly for an iTouch? I have Kindle for iPhone, STanza, eReader, and BookShelf (although I have pretty much no idea how to use any of them…)
Mur Lafferty | Jul 16, 2009 | Reply
Carrie, you can convert/read it with Stanza but it won’t look very good. I’m hoping someone else will convert it. A listener has the doc, so I’ll post it the minute he sends me something.
elizabeth | Jul 17, 2009 | Reply
Nice, Mur. It looks good and of course is good advice.
The “you are allowed to suck” message is one I wish I’d learned earlier than I did. It’s something that gives one so much freedom. Not only as a writer of course, but in whatever you try to do, writing, painting, playing music or sports, whatever. The fiction police won’t come get you if you write a bad story. The sky won’t fall.
Better to have an imperfect version of a story actually out there, than living only in your head, where it will die with you.
sundar | Jul 24, 2009 | Reply
Dear Mur
What a lovely way to share the knowledge with us…Loved it and downloaded a copy for re-reading again…
Thanks a lot….will wait for further issues