ISBW #175 Gift Guide/Conflict/Cory Doctorow Interview

Last episode of the year! Cory has a new project that is awesome, you should check it out.

• 01:04 State of the Mur: cold, but productive. Working on YA novel, trying to avoid too much multi-tasking of projects. Trying to manage expectations.
• 03:09 Promo: Scott Sigler’s Galactic Football League series on sale for the holidays with coupon code “MUR”
• 04:12 Holidays & the best gifts for the writers in your lives: TIME and SUPPORT.*  Recommended books: Beginnings, Middles, and Ends, and 45 Master Characters.  Craft reminder: you need conflict.  Don’t protect your characters.  ”What we call adventure in fiction would be trauma in real life.”
• 22:09 Promo: Telegraph Connect‘s Primogeniture Anthology
• 23:11 Interview: Cory Doctorow
  • New book: With A Little Help
  • A day in the life of Cory Doctorow
  • What might be next

Credits:    Producer: Patrick Hester, Show notes writer: Carrie Kei Heim Binas, Theme song: John Anealio

* Thoughts from the show notes writer: Ways to give time include offering to take care of housecleaning, cooking, laundry, babysitting (whether you pay for the writer to hire someone or offer to do these chores yourself). Ways to give support include a seriousness of intent when giving the gift… for example, let’s say you’re giving the writer in your life a pen.  If you just let them unwrap it, it’s nice enough.  But if you make a point of saying, “I got this for you because you are a WRITER and WRITERS deserve beautiful writing tools like this fountain pen,” well, that could make all the difference in boosting our fragile creative hearts this holiday season.  -CKHB

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