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ISBW #143 – Cynicism / Don Vaughn Interview
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Show notes forthcoming.
Upcoming interviews- Ellen Datlow, Blake Charlton, and, thanks to Chris Lester, Liz Giorinsky, Phil and Kaja Foglio, and more!
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ISBW Video #13-2 – The Artist’s Way Week 3
Well, I’ve been dragging my feet. So I recorded an extra-long podcast for you, it’ll be delivered in two 10-minute episodes. Don’t forget our Facebook page!
Episode 13-2 from YouTube:
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ISBW Video #13 – The Artist’s Way Week 3
Well, I’ve been dragging my feet. So I recorded an extra-long podcast for you, it’ll be delivered in two 10-minute episodes. One today, one tomorrow (else iTunes won’t grab them both. If you MUST watch both today, check YouTube or Facebook.
Episode 13-1 from YouTube:
Episode 13-2 from YouTube:
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ISBW #142 – Feedback!
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It’s another feedback week!
- 00:06: ISBW is brought to you by GoTo Meeting
- 00:18: ISBW #142
- 00:49: State of the Mur: busy. Artist’s Way, Artist’s Way Video Podcasts, Artist’s Way on Facebook, ISBW, short stories & a novella, waiting for feedback on novel, and, you know, life.
- 02:16: GoTo Meeting Promo
- 03:04 Promo: N.K. Jemisin’s novel The Ten Thousand Kingdoms published by Orbit Books.
- 04:05 Feedback: legality of fan fiction (it is a copyright violation, but authors may not care unless you try to get paid for it); listener Ross made a New Year’s Resolution to get in front of his computer & write every day and it seems to be working (yay Ross!); ISBW’s show notes writer CKHB on agents misplacing manuscripts (yes, it happens! keep track of your submissions!); looking for advice on finding the right balance when writing short stories (suggested reading: Beginnings, Middles & Ends by Nancy Kress); where to start an epic fantasy (consider starting at the moment the protagonist’s life changes); thoughts on not taking rejection too seriously; advice for people whose style is easily affected by what they read (it’s a new-writer thing); how many main characters is too many; keeping parents away from one’s writing or warning them about content; how to find literary magazines that like myth-based poetry (CKHB suggests trying the Duotrope’s Digest search engine); using Wordle as a method for creating titles; ISBW now on streaming Stitcher Radio for smart phones; standard manuscript format — Times New Roman or Courier New? 250 words/page or precise word count? (CKHB’s research agrees with Mur’s: no agent or editor has ever rejected something just for being in TNR or Courier, and manuscript formatting expert Anne Mini at Author! Author! says that you estimate word count as 250 words/page for TNR, 200 words/page for Courier); iPad and software development concerns; the writing activities that count towards one’s 10,000 hours of practice to become a “master” of the craft; listener Lincoln wrote 5 novels since he started listening to ISBW (yay Lincoln!); Mur will be speaking about podcasting at Write Now! 2010, the Triangle Area Freelancers’ Annual Non-Fiction Conference on March 27th (and TAF President Don Vaughan will be interviewed on an upcoming episode of ISBW); a poet transitioning to fiction asks about beginnings & characterization (suggested writing books: the Nancy Kress book, Orson Scott Card’s Characters & Viewpoint and other books from the Writer’s Market collection), and Ursula K. Le Guin’s essay books); where to find Beta readers.
Now, go write. And when in doubt, eat a cookie, THEN write.
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ISBW Video #12 – The Artist’s Way, Week 2
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Some people have asked if they are behind in the Artist’s Way now. No no no no! Go ahead and get your book and get started. We are not going at any fast clipped pace here, mainly cause I can’t get a video up weekly, it seems. 
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ISBW Video #11 – The Artist’s Way
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To get started, you need The Artist’s Way, a notebook, and a writing device. If a skeptic, be warned, the book focuses on spirituality, but you don’t have to have faith to do it.
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ISBW #141 – Amazon and iPad / Ursula Vernon Interview
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My apologies for having a podcast about something timely and then back-burner-ing it for other things. I still think it’s relevant, especially when we pull in the iPad discussion. If you haven’t followed the news, the Macmillan Amazon links are back up.
- 00:00:06 ISBW #141
- 00:00:39 GoTo Meeting Message
- 00:01:27 State of the Mur: Snow! Ice! Cabin Fever. Project Underground is ready for beta readers.
- 00:04:32 The Amazon/Macmillan kerfuffle. What do readers think? How should consumers (as well as creators) handle the market changes due to Kindle, iPad, and publisher competition?
- 00:17:10 Promo: Beware the Hairy Mango
- 00:18:23 Interview: Ursula Vernon, author-illustrator of: Digger, Nurk, Dragonbreath, and Dragonbreath 2: Attack of the Ninja Frogs. You can find her at UrsulaVernon.com or Red Wombat Studio… and if you can’t decide right away, go to Metal & Magic and enjoy the awesomely cute drawings as you ponder which link to click. You can find her books at B&N, Borders, Powell’s, and your local indie bookseller.
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ISBW #140 – Amateur Writing: Good Parts and Bad / Bemis, Enge Interviews
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- 00:00:07 ISBW #140
- 00:00:38 GoTo Meeting Message
- 00:01:29 State of the Mur: wrapping up 2009 podcasting content, Jar of Awesome method for choosing among writing projects, editing.
- 00:04:33 Promo: Steve Saylor and Ringtone Feeder present The Caffeine Collection, a dynamic audiobook.
- 00:05:48 Possible ISBW community project: The Artist’s Way– let Mur know if you are interested in participating by commenting here or by email.
- 00:07:50 Today’s topic: the freedom and curse of being an amateur writer.
- 00:12:19 Promo: The Audio Market List–an online audio market resource for fiction writers.
- 00:13:48 Interview: James Enge, author of This Crooked Way. (He can also be found at his Livejournal or on Facebook.
- 00:28:59 Promo: Purgatory, a podcast novel by Tim Dodge.
00:30:26 Interview: John Claude Bemis, author of the middle-grade novel The Nine Pound Hammer. (referenced book: Lev Grossman’s The Magicians. - 00:49:55 Promo: V for Vertigo
- 00:50:32 Feedback: creating an author website or blog if you are unpublished or have only a very small number of credits; naming your characters — Charlie suggests using the names in the New Orleans Public Library’s listing of Criminal Court Defendants 1880-1918; word count; studying creative writing in college; running out of steam towards the end of a novel and how to tie it all together — check out Holly Lisle’s How To Revise Your Novel writing course; an in-depth listener review of Dramatica Pro; a listener has a friend who may be giving up on writing after an agency rejection; choosing which project to start (whichever you pick, write them all down first!); listener Chris follows Ray Bradbury’s advice and tries to write 1 Story a Week for 52 weeks “to get the junk out”; thoughts on books using only one P.O.V.; starting to write a story with characters and no plot yet; translating the behavior of publishing houses (anyone interested in a future podcast on agents?)
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ISBW #139: The Very Special Christmas Episode with Matt Wallace
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Me. Matt Wallace. Christmas. It gets weird. Not for kids.
- 00:00:07 ISBW #139
- 00:00:57 GoTo Meeting Message
- 00:01:32 Very Special Christmas Episode with Matt Wallace, recorded on the eve of Beethoven’s birthday (probably December 15th, but according to that Wikipedia link, there’s some ambiguity). Recommended reading: Connie Willis’ short story collection Miracle. A Very Special Christmas Podcast: The Failed Cities Monologues, Hath a Darkness at Variant Frequencies. Watch at your own discretion: Santa is a D*** (NSFW!)
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ISBW #138 – New Years kick in the pants – Fear
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Happy New Year!
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- 00:00:07 ISBW #138
- 00:00:39 GoTo Meeting Message
- 00:01:14 New Year’s Kick in the Pants: about failing to write/podcast because of fear. Recommended reading: author Matt Wallace
- 00:06:21 State of the Mur: rewriting Heaven, working on Underground, hosting the Tor.com fiction podcasts. Condolences for Tee Morris’s loss (ChipIn fundraising link below).
- 00:09:16 Promo Night Light Stories podcast
- 00:10:04 Advice we need to keep hearing. Fear, failure, experimenting, resolutions. DO NOT DESPAIR, and keep striving.
Detailed show notes provided by Carrie Kei Heim Binas
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