I Should've Been Writing

Jul 18 2023 5 ep. 20 mins 14

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A rerun of I Should Be Writing, the longest running writing podcast on the Internet, complete with commentary, new interviews, and transcripts! Look back at 2005 before host Mur had ever sold a story, and podcasting was barely a year old!

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[ISvBW] Who Knew Rewriting Would Still Be Hard?

Jul 18 2023 20 mins

I Should've Been Writing S1 Ep5 It's September, 2005, and I have breaking news- rewriting is still difficult for me. I'm at a point where I guess I have to just accept some things and move on. It will always be difficult. Transcript Mur Lafferty 8:00: When I have bad days with my novel, I just tell myself, the first draft is allowed to suck. First drafts are always allowed to su

[ISvBW] Revisiting the Michael A. Stackpole Interview

Jun 27 2023 23 mins

S1 Ep4 Episode four, and my very first interview! I meet with Mike at Dragoncon and use my tiny digital recorder to get the audio, which I've tried to clean up. Transcript Mike Stackpole: this is one of the big things that everybody who reads and contemplates writing usually runs into and I still run into this with reading really, really good writers, is you read this stuff and y

[ISvBW] Submission Guidelines Deep Dive

Jun 21 2023 21 mins

Episode three and we have my very first "oops, didn't get this up on time." But in the olden days, I still attended DragonCon and I was still writing on many projects I've forgotten about. Then, submission guidelines! Transcript Music: Dana Countryman RIV Ralan.com

[ISvBW] Online Writing Workshops, how are they now?

Jun 07 2023 19 mins

I Should've Been Writing S1 Ep2 (from the transcript) Mur Lafferty 08:43 ...you read Neil Gaiman's blog and you hear "Yes, I went up to the cabin for the week to finish Anansi Boys...' and, well, that's great for him, but he's a best selling author with best selling comic books and just best selling all over the place. Everybody else you see on the shelves, they likely have day jo

[ISvBW] Where It All Began

Jun 02 2023 19 mins

Here it is, I Should Be Writing Episode 1 from 2005, seen from the lens of 2023. I've decided to go back in time and look at my earlier episodes and release them with commentary. (Because I don't have enough on my plate, you know...) The shows will also be released with transcriptions for free, but Patreon supporters will get the episodes first, and annotated transcripts too! I Sh