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Ditch Diggers

 Mur Lafferty

Treat your writing like a blue collar job. Doctors don't get doctor block and ditch diggers don't get ditch digger block, and working writers can't get writer's block. Business and humor.

Books Literature Arts Writing
Update frequency
every 13 days
Average duration
59 minutes
Episodes
49
Years Active
2021 - 2025
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[DD] Some Kickstarters rise while magazines fall

[DD] Some Kickstarters rise while magazines fall

Matt and I discuss how some Kickstarter have made millions, and smaller magazines are shutting down.

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00:24:29  |   Tue 26 Apr 2022
[DD] The Market HUNGERS, with Ursula Vernon

[DD] The Market HUNGERS, with Ursula Vernon

Streamed live, April 11, 2022.

Ursula was recently asked "what's selling right now?" and we discuss that and why we HATE that question.

Next week: Matt is back!

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00:54:45  |   Sun 17 Apr 2022
[DD] The Return

[DD] The Return

Streamed live, April 4, 2022.

Matt and I have fun talking about publishing, and catching up for the last several months. Next week: Ursula Vernon co-hosts.

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00:46:29  |   Fri 15 Apr 2022
[DD] How Many Kidneys Does Ursula Vernon Have?

[DD] How Many Kidneys Does Ursula Vernon Have?

Ursula joins me and we talk about body organs and just how important they are to a writing career.

We reference this debacle.

HEY check out my Speakeasy class on NaNoWriMo coming up on October 12, 8…

01:19:53  |   Tue 12 Oct 2021
[DD] What Does John Milton Have To Do With YA?

[DD] What Does John Milton Have To Do With YA?

Yup, we're talking, a little late, about the YA Ratings debacle, but through the lens of dead white guy John Milton.

Yeah, he was a cranky old man, writer of super long Bible fanfic, and helped with …

01:06:39  |   Fri 08 Oct 2021
[DD] What Do You Do When Your Books Don't Sell?

[DD] What Do You Do When Your Books Don't Sell?

Mur and Matt welcome back the Godmother of Ditch Diggers herself, Gail Carriger! Gail wanted to talk about what happens when you're a pro and your books don't sell. What avenues do we have?

00:39:56  |   Thu 23 Sep 2021
[DD] Guest Hosts Ursula Vernon and Diana Rowland

[DD] Guest Hosts Ursula Vernon and Diana Rowland

I had some last minute changes come up, but the awesome authors Ursula Vernon and Diana Rowland ended up calling in and hanging out to talk about the tools we use in our careers, from Scrivener to as…

01:36:09  |   Thu 16 Sep 2021
[DD] Exiled to Discord!

[DD] Exiled to Discord!

Matt and Mur return to Discord instead of Twitch, since we were taking a day off Twitch in solidarity with the streamers getting harassed on the platform.

New Twitch schedule for our live episodes! T…

00:52:42  |   Mon 13 Sep 2021
[DD] Streaming on my own from the basement

[DD] Streaming on my own from the basement

The day was kind of a perfect storm for crap, so it ended up with me and the dogs and my phone, streaming from the basement.   To quote Stuart Smalley, "This was not my best show." But I did it!   …
01:20:36  |   Tue 31 Aug 2021
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