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ISBW #124 – 4 Year Anniversary / Neil Gaiman Interview!

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Neil Gaiman - photo by .guilty

I’m starting to wonder if I should just take August off from podcasting. It seems to be the month I have the most trouble getting content out. But no more! This week you will be DELUGED with content! Starting with the (one week late) anniversary episode of I Should Be Writing, featuring an interview with one of my favorite writers, Neil Gaiman!

Abbreviated show notes:

• It’s 4 years since I started ISBW. And boy have I learned a lot. And a lot more to go. I’m also writing a ton, hence being behind on podcasting. Also, if you use iTunes, can you give some review love to ISBW?
• Promo: World Wide Weird Podcast
• Meta thoughts on writing, accomplishment, media, etc. I take questions from Twitter.
• Promo: The Dreamer’s Thread
• 35:50 Neil Gaiman interview from WorldCon (And The Graveyard Book did win the Hugo! Congrats, Neil!)
• Promo: Inner Demons novel
• Contest! You send me writing prompts, I send you books! All writing prompts are ownership of me, the books you win are ownership of you.

NOTE- This podcast is explicit. I told Neil I’d bleep the bad word, but dangit, the quote is too good and I left it in. There’s one swear word in this interview. It’s quick, and Neil is soft spoken so people not listening carefully (like your kids) will likely miss it. But to quote A Christmas Story, it’s THE dirty word, the “f dash dash dash” word, so I’m marking this one explicit. Neil Gaiman and Matt Wallace – too explicit for I Should Be Writing. Aw yeah.

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ISBW 4th Anniversary, Links, and update

First, I’ve been writing.

I feel like that’s the best excuse for falling behind on the podcast and the blog. I’ve written close to 10K words this week on both War and the edits on Heaven. I’m seven chapters done on Heaven, through page 72.

Get wordcount generator from Writertopia

My daughter is home this week- no camp and no school- and that’s been taking up the rest of my time. I am realizing the myth of the SUPERMOM when I realize that I can write, edit, and care for my kiddo and make dinner… and that’s about it. I don’t have the brainpower to work on the myriad administrative things or the podcasting (ISBW and WAR are suffering, I know) or the housework or email (up to 50 unanswered now, after all the spam and bac’n deletion)  or the other projects.

I Should Be Writing just celebrated 4 years of podcasting, and I commemorated by recording a long episode and not having any time to edit it. I’ll get it out as soon as possible.

Some links I’ve been wanting to give you, but, well, read above:

• The fabulous tool Story Tracker is now available for your iPhone/touch. I used this tool a lot when I was actively working on short stories for many markets, and it’s invaluable. It takes a lot of work on the front end (listing your stories, the details, sales, rejections, income made, trunked status, etc, not to mention all the details for the markets you submit to) but once you have all the information it’s so very useful. Highly recommended. (Thanks to Tobias Buckell for blogging about it and alerting me to its existence. You’re reading Toby’s blog, right? RIGHT?)
• Agent Rachel Gardner wants to remind us that even if our publisher does put money into a marketing campaign for us, things don’t always turn out like we hoped. - EDIT – post removed, not sure what’s up there.
  
• I hope you’re reading Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s Freelancer’s Survival Guide. Her latest post is on Discipline, always a problem for me.

Hope to have the new podcast – with worldCon report – out this weekend. But the novel comes first, sadly enough. When that is done things will return to normal around here.