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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• 00:50:32 Feedback: creating an author website or blog if you are unpublished or have only a very small number of credits; naming your characters — Charlie suggests using the names in the New Orleans Public Library’s listing of Criminal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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