Real Life

As regular readers will know, many of my clients and colleagues are in the podcasting community. As a result, I’d been hearing glowing mentions of Mur Lafferty’s name for a few years now. When I learned that Mur was going to be at Anticipation, I wrote and told her that I was looking forward to meeting her.

The easiest way to hook up with a fellow participant at a convention is to attend one of their panels and hang around afterwards for a few minutes to say hello. As a side benefit, you get to hear them talk intelligently about the things they care about. I can now say, Mur exceeds her reputation. She is articulate, witty and focused, and her passion for writing and podcasting came through in her words.

It also comes through in her post Welcome to Real Life from I Should Be Writing. It’s an important concept for writers and editors and all of us who work so hard to turn our passion into our day job.

Real life doesn’t “get in the way” — this is your real life. If you don’t think of it that way, you’ll never make it happen.

I believe this very strongly, and Mur’s said it much better than I could. Click. Read.

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