From the monthly archives: January 2011
This is an approved posting from author Holly Lisle’s excellent How to Think Sideways site. Holly has been a guest on this show, and we’ll talk to her again later this spring. But I wanted to let people know a bit about her and her great courses. (and if you’ve written a book, you [...]
ISBW #178 00:54 FEEDBACK: possibility of interviewees reading excerpts from their books; Scrivener for Windows review by listener Ray; listener Chris wrote 1 Story a Week for A YEAR; turning a novel into YA (age of characters, sex, violence, other factors); new spec fic writers over 50 should check out the Speculative [...]
Preview of Marco and the Red Granny!
By Mur Lafferty On January 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Explicit, Featured, Free, Non-ISBW, Podcast
I’m putting only one episode in the feed of my serial novella, Marco and the Red Granny. If you like it, you can go to murverse.com or podiobooks.com to listen, or buy the ebook at Amazon or Smashwords. Or if you want to support free fiction, just
Dorothee Mackenbach is a listener from the Netherlands.
As a beginning writer who can benefit from any good help, I am so glad I got to try out Scrivener.
This is what I have been missing these last years! Really!
If you are an ‘outliner’ or absolutely not, you will love Scrivener. One file [...]
Like EULAs. End User License Agreements. The stuff you scroll through in order to order iTunes apps/music/videos, or play computer games, etc. Most legalese is boring. To date the only organization who tries to make legal speak human readable is Creative Commons.
So there’s this contest someone pointed me to, with a [...]
ISBW #177
01:04 Happy New Year! Â State of the Mur: busy holidays, and high hopes for 2011. 02:41 Promo:Â Functional Nerds Podcast 03:31 Goals and resolutions. Â The power of concrete, specific goals, and in writing our goals down. Â Advice from the Editor/Publisher of Bull Spec. Â WriteChain app (currently free instead [...]
I’ve always read all sorts of books, but only recently have I been looking at midgrade and YA books as genres to be studied and learned from.
In 2009 when Zoe’s Tale* and The Graveyard Book* got Hugo nominated, some people grumbled because YA isn’t serious or literary or whatever. It’s the classic [...]
We’re back! Happy New Year! Let’s talk writer problems, and stuff. Maybe things.
ISBW #176
00:54 Happy New Year! 01:30 Promo: Telegraph Connect‘s Primogeniture Anthology 02:32 FEEDBACK: listener Matt finished first draft of his novel!; listener support for Mur; updated link for the James Palmer website; struggling to write every [...]
It’s hard for me to be honest in this show. I don’t know how much to say. Sometimes I know it’s professionally bad to do so (“That gosh darn [agent/editor name REDACTED] just pissed me off when they [slight REDACTED], I’m going to go shoot someone with a potato gun!”) Other times I worry that [...]
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