Shows From the Murverse

Mar 31 2025 10 ep. 55 mins 1.7k

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All of the podcasts coming from Mur Lafferty including I Should Be Writing and Ditch Diggers (with Matt Wallace)!

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[ISBW] From Medieval Fashion to Modern Writing with Natania Barron

S21 Ep6: From Medieval Fashion to Modern Writing with Natania Barron “Stories are how I make sense of the world.” -Natania Barron (This post went live for supporters on March 27, 2025. If you want early, ad-free, and sometimes expanded episodes, support at Patreon or Substack!) In this episode, I talk a little about the JoCo Cruise and how it reminded me of the impo

[ISBW] Crafting Tales Through Holiday Themes

S21 Ep5: Crafting Tales Through Holiday Themes “Engaging with the holidays definitely feels like a way to develop world and character.” -Mur Lafferty (This post went live for supporters on March 24, 2025. If you want early, ad-free, and sometimes expanded episodes, support at Patreon or Substack!) In this episode, I dive into the significance of holidays in storytelli

[ISBW] Taking a Machete to Creative Blocks with Premee Mohamed

S21 Ep4: Taking a Machete to Creative Blocks with Premee Mohamed “My characters would be wandering around the field with me going like, hey, I just found a rare orchid.” -Premee Mohamed (This post went live for supporters on March 21, 2025. If you want early, ad-free, and sometimes expanded episodes, support at Patreon or Substack!) (recorded February) In this episode

[ISBW] Rachel Howzell Hall on Balancing Thrillers and Fantasy

S21 Ep3: Rachel Howzell Hall on Balancing Thrillers and Fantasy “I will try this new thing and I will learn how to do it.” -Rachel Howzell Hall (This post went live for supporters on March 18, 2025. If you want early, ad-free, and sometimes expanded episodes, support at Patreon or Substack!) (recorded February) In this episode of I Should Be Writing, we dive into the

[ISBW] Mental Health and Creativity

S21 Ep2: Mental Health and Creativity “Nothing is 100% original. It’s what you do with it that counts.” -Elaine M. Will (This post went live for supporters on February 13, 2025. If you want early, ad-free, and sometimes expanded episodes, support at Patreon or Substack!) Ever-looming existential dread, but we keep going. Then there’s the challenge of navig

[DD] Resolutions, Ducks, and That Elephant Is Back

Jan 22 2025 47 mins

“Try to make the world a better place. You personally are not on the hook to fix everything.” – Ursula Vernon (This post went live for supporters on January 17, 2025. If you want early, ad-free, and sometimes expanded episodes, support at Patreon or Substack!) Transcript S.11 Ep.1 Welcome to Season 11 of Ditch Diggers with Mur Lafferty and Ursula Vernon! We try

[ISBW] The Art of Quitting, Evil Mur Style

S21 Ep1: In Which Evil Mur Delivers a Message of Hope “It’s time to just… quit.” -Evil Mur (Do not listen to Evil Mur) (This post went live for supporters on January 17, 2025. If you want early, ad-free, and sometimes expanded episodes, support at Patreon or Substack!) Welcome to a new season of I Should Be Writing, where the notorious Evil Mur takes the

[DD] How Mur and Ursula Edit

Jan 15 2025 63 mins

“Editing is where you leave the craft behind and start thinking like a business.” – Mur Lafferty “I am the person with the hat.” – Ursula Vernon Transcript (This post went live for supporters on January 13, 2025. If you want early, ad-free, and sometimes expanded episodes, support at Patreon or Substack!) In this final episode of season six of

[ISBW] Ten Bad Ideas

S20 Ep35: In Which Mur Explores 10 Terrible Ideas and Chats About Writing, Games, and More [Explicit] “You need to come up with terrible ideas. And once you come up with terrible ideas, you will start developing good ideas.” -Mur (This post went live for supporters on January 7, 2025. If you want early, ad-free, and sometimes expanded episodes, support at Patreon or Su

[ISBW] Tigers

S20 Ep34: In Which Mur Looks Into The Pit of Despair and Sees a Tiger [Explicit] “Don’t talk yourself out of being creative, because that really is the biggest thing that stops us is ourselves.” (This post went live for supporters on November 14, 2024. If you want early, ad-free, and sometimes expanded episodes, support at Patreon or Substack!) NOTE: It occurs t