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ISBW #222: The Yearly NaNoWriMo Episode

Mur Lafferty — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:02:10 +0000

This has been in the feed for some time, only now am I able to add it to the site.

ISBW #222

00:12 State of the Mur: on the road — literally. driving. — and upcoming trip to World Fantasy Con 01:37 Sponsor: ISBW is brought to you by Hover! Visit http://www.hover.com/isbw for 10% [...]

ISBW #173 – NaNoWriMo Debrief

Mur Lafferty — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 03:51:38 +0000

I failed. And that’s okay. The interview returns next week!

ISBW #170 – Feedback

Mur Lafferty — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:10:10 +0000

We talk radishes. And elephants. And feedback.

00:06 ISBW #170 01:01 Update: podcast/holiday planning, thoughts on willpower & prioritizing. Marco and The Red Granny free audio novella available at HubFiction.com 06:04 Promo:Â Victor Zulu (a NaNoWriMo podcast) 07:05 FEEDBACK: a listener’s favorite free writing group, CritiqueCircle.com (Also [...]

ISBW #161 Nanowrimo / Bob Fingerman Interview

Mur Lafferty — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:00:27 +0000

It’s our yearly look at NaNoWriMo! Are you doing it this year? Let’s make a support group! Use Write or Die! And then we talk to Bob Fingerman.

I did not realize until the end of the recording that my sound software was drawing from the crappy internal mic, so VERY [...]

ISBW #137 – Stop Thinking/Gail Carriger Interview

Mur Lafferty — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:52:25 +0000

00:00:07 J.C. Hutchins, author of 7th Son: Descent, presents ISBW 00:00:21 ISBW #137 00:01:39 Congrats to all listeners who finished NaNoWriMo!!! State of the Mur: one project completed and sent to agent, working on short stories, blogging for Storytellers Unplugged (go read the December 6th post on FEAR), had [...]

ISBW Video #10 – Vanity Presses and NaNoWriMo

Mur Lafferty — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:26:21 +0000

NaNoWriMo is over! Did you win? I sure as heck didn’t. I grant you 3 days off. By Thursday I want you writing again. I explain why I’m a NaNo failure (again) and what I think of the Harlequin Horizons thing. Check my most recent blogpost for links.

Promo: Grant’s Advent Calendar

November 15- 0 hour for Nate Lowell

Mur Lafferty — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:56:30 +0000

I was going to post something about the awesomeness that is Nathan Lowell, but then I figured I’d let him speak for himself. Congrats, Nate, you’re a true inspiration.

After the Challenge
by Nathan Lowell

Today’s Sunday, the 15th of November. People of NaNoWriMo are frantically hammering out words to beat [...]

Update on me, NaNoWriMo, and the Podcast

Mur Lafferty — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:54:20 +0000

I will offer no excuses or give personal boring information. But as I said at the beginning, my priority this month has been the editing of one novel, and NaNoWriMo has been the second priority. So while the edits are going along quite well, and I definitely have been writing, the NaNoWriMo project has stalled [...]

Small NaNo break, Podcasts you need

Mur Lafferty — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:11:17 +0000

I am taking a small break from NaNoWriMo this weekend. Working on two novels is taking too much out of me, and I need to finish one before I really dive into the other one. Come Monday I’ll be approx. 5k words behind. I gotta be ready to take up that slack. I’d feel bad [...]

NaNoWriMo Reality Check

Mur Lafferty — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:04:49 +0000

I follow a lot of agents on twitter, and apparently many of them look forward to December with trepidation. That’s when “novels” that are 50K or so, rough, unedited, and sloppy, hit their desks.

I find this unbelievable. Not that the agents dread it, and not that it happens, but that so little common sense [...]