It’s so amusing how we all are eager, once we type THE END, to run out and submit and wait and [...]]]> http://isbw.murlafferty.com/2012/05/15/hurry-up/feed/ 0 http://isbw.murlafferty.com/2012/05/15/fabulist-video/ http://isbw.murlafferty.com/2012/05/15/fabulist-video/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 14:09:06 +0000 Mur Lafferty http://isbw.murlafferty.com/?p=2461 http://isbw.murlafferty.com/2012/05/15/fabulist-video/feed/ 0 http://isbw.murlafferty.com/2012/05/14/isbw-249-convention-questions-answeredpeter-v-brett-interview-pt-2/ http://isbw.murlafferty.com/2012/05/14/isbw-249-convention-questions-answeredpeter-v-brett-interview-pt-2/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 17:38:07 +0000 Mur Lafferty http://isbw.murlafferty.com/?p=2455 I answer a great deal of questions about conventions, as it’s nearly that season! And if you’re a fabulist, then let’s have breakfast at Balticon! Drop me a line.

OK, if you want the whole story, with WORDS and stuff (and come on, you’re writers, stay with me here.) — sometimes when I think back to things my parents said to me – good or bad – that imprinted in my brain and did not [...]]]> http://isbw.murlafferty.com/2012/05/11/dont-be-an-ass-case-studies-wheaton-and-gaiman/feed/ 0 http://isbw.murlafferty.com/2012/05/09/isbw-248-feedback/ http://isbw.murlafferty.com/2012/05/09/isbw-248-feedback/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 23:15:05 +0000 Mur Lafferty http://isbw.murlafferty.com/?p=2437 Another feedbacky type show.

ISBW #248

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This week I run part 1 of the Peter V. Brett interview from World Fantasy Con, and talk about how to handle unrequited love. (In a story, I mean; I can’t [...]]]> http://isbw.murlafferty.com/2012/05/03/isbw-247-peter-v-brett-interview-unrequited-love/feed/ 0 Peter V. Brett Brought to you by Picking Up the Ghost by Tone Milazzo! - Pick up the ebook for only $2.99 until May 8th! - This week I run part 1 of the Peter V. Brett interview from World Fantasy Con, and talk about how to handle unrequited love. (In a story, Brought to you by Picking Up the Ghost by Tone Milazzo! Pick up the ebook for only $2.99 until May 8th! This week I run part 1 of the Peter V. Brett interview from World Fantasy Con, and talk about how to handle unrequited love. (In a story, I mean; I can't help you handle it in real life.)   Living in St. Jude, a 110-year-old dying city on the edge of the Mississippi, is tough. But when a letter informs fourteen-year-old Cinque of the passing of the father he never met, he is faced with an incomplete past and an uncertain future. A curse meant for his father condemns Cinque to a slow death even as it opens his eyes to the strange other world around him. With help from the ghost, an enigmatic White Woman, a Loa, and a devious shape-shifter, Cinque gathers the tools to confront the ghost of his dead father. But sometimes too much knowledge can be dangerous - and the people he trusts most are those poised to betray him. Mur Lafferty clean 46:38 http://isbw.murlafferty.com/2012/04/30/isbw-246-feedback/ http://isbw.murlafferty.com/2012/04/30/isbw-246-feedback/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 00:32:34 +0000 Mur Lafferty http://isbw.murlafferty.com/?p=2420 It’s another feedback show!

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Living in St. Jude, a 110-year-old dying city on the edge of the Mississippi, is tough. But when a letter informs fourteen-year-old Cinque of the passing [...]]]> http://isbw.murlafferty.com/2012/04/30/isbw-246-feedback/feed/ 0 feedback It's another feedback show! - Brought to you by Picking Up the Ghost by Tone Milazzo! - Pick up the ebook sale for only $2.99 until May 8th! - Living in St. Jude, a 110-year-old dying city on the edge of the Mississippi, is tough. It's another feedback show! Brought to you by Picking Up the Ghost by Tone Milazzo! Pick up the ebook sale for only $2.99 until May 8th! Living in St. Jude, a 110-year-old dying city on the edge of the Mississippi, is tough. But when a letter informs fourteen-year-old Cinque of the passing of the father he never met, he is faced with an incomplete past and an uncertain future. A curse meant for his father condemns Cinque to a slow death even as it opens his eyes to the strange other world around him. With help from the ghost, an enigmatic White Woman, a Loa, and a devious shape-shifter, Cinque gathers the tools to confront the ghost of his dead father. But sometimes too much knowledge can be dangerous - and the people he trusts most are those poised to betray him. ISBW #246 00:28 State of the Mur: still fried, but hopeful.  Keep tweeting/blogging about #ISBW to be entered into contest with prizes by Surly Amy.  SF Signal received two Hugo nominations for Best Fanzine & Best Fancast (produced by ISBW's Patrick Hester!) 03:06 Sponsor: Picking Up the Ghost -- read up to 4 chapters free by solving puzzles on author Tone Milazzo's website 04:35 FEEDBACK: bundles of resources on Writer's Digest; deciding how much cutting is enough; looking for new fiction in niche sub-genres; picking battles when asked to modify story for publication; pacing for discovery writers; identifying & solving plot holes; Kurt Vonnegut quote -- " No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them, in order that the reader may see what they are made of."(emphasis added); listener asks why Playing for Keeps didn't count as a "pro sale" for Campbell nomination purposes; writing short stories to specific word counts; researching novel locations via Google Earth; switching from discovery writing to plotting mid-project / writing advice from Holly Lisle; conventions re: who a 1st person narrator should be addressing; struggling to get words down at the start of a project; BookLife now under new management; introverted vs extroverted writers. Credits:    Producer: Patrick Hester, Show notes writer: Carrie Kei Heim Binas, Theme song: Famous Patrick Mur Lafferty clean 31:41 http://isbw.murlafferty.com/2012/04/30/isbw-246-feedback-fabulist-ad-free/ http://isbw.murlafferty.com/2012/04/30/isbw-246-feedback-fabulist-ad-free/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 00:27:46 +0000 Mur Lafferty http://isbw.murlafferty.com/?p=2419 http://isbw.murlafferty.com/2012/04/30/isbw-246-feedback-fabulist-ad-free/feed/ 0 http://isbw.murlafferty.com/2012/04/26/im-all-alone-in-my-angst/ http://isbw.murlafferty.com/2012/04/26/im-all-alone-in-my-angst/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:54:25 +0000 Mur Lafferty http://isbw.murlafferty.com/?p=2412 I am a fraud. *

Everything I write sucks.

I haven’t written today and therefore I am a waste of space.

I’ll never, ever, ever, make it, even though I’m not sure what “making it” means.

What a relief.

(If you’re really impatient, the important message is at 2:40 – but sheesh, it’s only [...]]]> http://isbw.murlafferty.com/2012/04/26/im-all-alone-in-my-angst/feed/ 0