Comments on: Podcast: Mur Lafferty on Writing Novels and Top Tips for NaNoWriMo

By: 100th Podcast Celebration of Joanna PennindieKindle

100th Podcast Celebration of Joanna PennindieKindle — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:31:58 +0000

[...] Mur Lafferty – It’s ok to suck. After speaking with Tom, I decided to do Nanowrimo in 2009 and get into some fiction. I’ve been listening to Mur’s I should be writing podcast for a while and asked her on to the show to discuss one of her mantras which is “it’s ok to suck”. Basically your first draft is going to be bad. This is also said by Anne Lamott in Bird by Bird “shitty first drafts”. IT’S OK! This released me from more fear and I wrote 20,000 words of crap during Nanowrimo BUT that turned into the seed idea for Pentecost which has now sold over 7500 copies and is still in the Amazon bestseller lists for Action-Adventure and Religious Fiction. I am now 20,000 words into Prophecy and I see myself as a fiction writer. This is a HUGE turnaround for me. HUGE. I mean my life has changed and I am thrilled and overjoyed to be here! Here’s the podcast with Mur Lafferty. [...]

By: Ganymeder » Blog Archive » My Writing Niche (podcast): Episode #5: One more week til Nanowrimo!**

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:55:29 +0000

[...] Mur Lafferty interview on The Creative Penn [...]

By: Kim Gonzales

Kim Gonzales — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:50:23 +0000

Thanks for the tips. I just started writing my blog a couple of months ago and I’m having a blast. I am researching podcasting and hope to start that soon.

By: HANaNoWriMo Day 11 Update, Word Count Total: 20,879. « The Unfocused Life

HANaNoWriMo Day 11 Update, Word Count Total: 20,879. « The Unfocused Life — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:40:25 +0000

[...] Australian writing and publishing podcast The Creative Penn recently ran an interview with Mur Lafferty, with tips for NaNoWriMo, which is well worth a listen. In the next episode, she interviewedJ.C. [...]

By: Podcast: Tips for Sci-Fi/Fantasy Authors from Philippa Ballantine, Chris Lester and J. Daniel Sawyer | The Creative Penn

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:04:46 +0000

[...] are allowed to suck” from Mur Lafferty (interviewed here) [...]

By: Podcast: J.C. Hutchins on Writing Thriller Novels and Publishing Success for 7th Son | The Creative Penn

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:13:49 +0000

[...] am just so lucky this week because I had the brilliant Mur Lafferty AND the fantastic J.C. Hutchins to interview! Since it is NaNoWriMo, I am asking these authors for [...]

By: NaNoWriMo Day 5 Update with Video | The Creative Penn

NaNoWriMo Day 5 Update with Video | The Creative Penn — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:02:32 +0000

[...] writing really sucks but that’s ok because brilliant author Mur Lafferty (who I interviewed yesterday) says it’s ok! I’m also just focusing on getting stuff out of my head. It doesn’t [...]

By: SF Signal

SF Signal — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:30:16 +0000

SF Tidbits for 11/6/09 …

Interviews/ProfilesThe Agony Column interviews Kim Stanley Robinson (podcast).David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (podcast) (via SFWA)Jonathan Moeller interviews Dave Smeds.The Creative Penn interviews Mur Lafferty (podcast).Lark Neville interviews Amy G…

By: Debbie Ridpath Ohi

Debbie Ridpath Ohi — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:36:24 +0000

Great interview! I love Mur’s podcast.

By: Mulled Vine

Mulled Vine — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:52:32 +0000

Fabulous info. Thanks for sharing!!

Robert