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ISBW #122 Antagonists / JC Hutchins Interview

Mur — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:10:34 +0000

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We are also proud to be sponsored by JC Hutchins’ Personal Effects series, both the free podcast novella Sword of Blood and the novel Personal Effects: Dark Art are available (order now!)

00:07: ISBW #122
00:37: GoTo Meeting Message
01:18: Pants report!
02:40: Words report!
03:20: Announcement! ISBW PDF content coming soon!
03:50: Promo: The Imperium Panjianium by Chris Mack
04:55: Antagonists
11:44: Promo: JC Hutchins’ Personal Effects: Sword of Blood
14:40: JC Hutchins interview. Buy Personal Effects: Dark Art! The party PDF is here, and more PE:DA stuff will go into the feed today!
38:30: Promo: Jennifer Hudock’s Goblin Market
40:04: Feedback: incompetence, COTTON PRODUCTIVITY VACUUM, in defense of MS Word, researching your genre, a pants voicemail from Carrie (visit her awesome blog).

May be reposting this soon, it’s not showing up in itunes feed for some reason…

Other people’s deadlines. Pants report.

Mur — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:44:37 +0000

I was talking to a good friend of mine today who is a personal coach. I don’t employ her officially but I know when we get talking about career, I do trust her opinions. We talked about my difficulty in focusing, and she asked me if I had a time in the past when I focused well, and what made that happen. That was easy.

Other people’s deadlines.

It’s not just the promise of paying work, it’s someone else counting on me. For example, I have a sponsor for ISBW now, but it’s still tough to get on a regular schedule (apologies to Laura Mixon and Matt Selznick, whose interviews were fallow for too long because of outside circumstances). But when an outside client needs a column done, or other work, I bust my butt to make it happen. I don’t know what to do to make a personal deadline with the immediacy of someone else’s. I wish I did.

In other news, out of four days this week, I have achieved pants three days. Monday was a big failure as my daughter was unexpectedly home sick again with a 102 fever, so I was taking care of her. Otherwise I have gotten dressed and ready to work every other day. Too bad every other day except for today had the additional wrenches of power outages and Internet outages. Sigh.

Speaking of pants, one of my listeners told me that interestingly enough, tomorrow is Freelancers Put on Your Pants Day! Funny timing, but remember. Pants tomorrow, even if you didn’t get pants on all week!

Writing prompt for July 9: Someone forgets a birthday.

ISBW #121 – PANTS! / Laura Mixon Interview

Mur — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:21:59 +0000

Once again we are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor this week! Get a Free 30-Day Trial!

We are also proud to be sponsored by JC Hutchins’ Personal Effects series, both the free podcast novella Sword of Blood and the novel Personal Effects: Dark Art are available (order now!)

00:07: ISBW #121
00:37: GoTo Meeting Message
01:30: Not much writing except for column.
01:57: Collaboration effort with JR Blackwell, Her Side
02:10: Goals for July
03:55: Promo: The Burning Skies
05:01: Pants are powerful and will help me write more. Seriously. I mention Flylady.
13:17: Promo: JC Hutchins’ Personal Effects: Sword of Blood
14:40: Laura Mixon interview. Storytron, Interactive Storytelling. (the dog barking ends shortly into the interview) Laura’s books on Amazon. Laura on Twitter.
36:22: Promo: Chris Moody’s Qattusverse
37:52: Feedback: Dialogue, blurbs, text to speech, new ISBW superfan!, when to edit, beta readers, and diversify!

And yes, I DO know what some non-US people consider the word “pants” to mean. Snicker all you want; I’m from the US, I know what I mean, and I am pretty sure that you know what I mean, too.