Your Creative Push

Mur Lafferty is the author of Solo: A Star Wars Story and the Hugo and Nebula nominated novel Six Wakes, The Shambling Guides series, and several self pubbed novels and novellas, including the award winning Afterlife series. She is also the host of the Hugo-winning podcast Ditch Diggers, and the long-running I Should Be Writing. She is the recipient of the John Campbell Award for best new writer, the Manly Wade Wellman Award, the Best Fancast Hugo Award, and joined the Podcast Hall of Fame in 2015, its inaugural year. Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/358 In this episode, Mur discusses: -Why she started her podcast, I Should Be Writing. -Rejectomancy and over-analyzing what a rejection might mean. -Why she doesn’t read comments or reviews. -Dealing with the self-doubt bully. -Trusting yourself and trusting “the people in the basement.” -The way in which your creative resolutions never have an ultimate failure or success – they are ways of life. -Getting more “experience points” for failing than succ