Most working writers agree that there is one quality above all needed to make it in the business: persistence. The Mad Writers invited the legendary Cat Rambo over to talk persistence and writing. From her days at Johns Hopkins through to keeping up writing a short story a week after Clarion West and all the way to her days working in SFWA. Cat Rambo is a writer, teacher, SFWA president and previously secretary. Generous in her encouragement of new writers and brilliant in her turn of prose, she can be found at catrambo.com
Recommended reading:Cat's recommendation: Lovecraft Country: A Novel by Matt Ruff
Tim's recommendation: Definitely Maybe (Neversink) by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Jay's recommendation: The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building by David J Peterson
Nina's recommendation: Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye
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Intro and outro music comes from “Cephalopod” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com); licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
Episode 1.8: Conventions
Episode 1.7: Critique
Episode 1.6: Keep working
Episode 1.5: Working it!
Episode 1.4: Making Your Characters Suffer
Episode 1.3: Impostor Syndrome
Episode 1.2: Setting Goals
Episode 1.1: Achieving Goals
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