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I’m so excited for this show, guys. I get to pick Mat’s brain every week, and I’m happy to report….he appears to LOVE a good question overload. He can talk endlessly about the business side of being a writer, and has helped me tremendously to find the times where I’m putting effort into the wrong places.
Though we first connected through another author platform, I first heard about Mat through Erica Conroy, who told me about his 50K words in a Day projects. He really does do it, folks. An entire novel in one day. So I DON’T want to hear any whining about how difficult it is to get the words in. (I’m talking to myself here, today, as I sit on the couch listening to a sick five-year-old talk loudly about his favourite train cartoon while he’s home sick from school.) Your writing may be messy and ill-formed due to distractions, but it CAN get written.
You can find Mat here, where he’s just made quite the announcement for people who follow him regularly.
Is 24.5 hours too early to say Four? I mean Five! I mean Fire!!!
First 🙂
011-8999-88-199-911-9725 wait for it… 3
PatrickStemp !!!! Ugh you’re so sneaky.
I’ll be out tonight, but I’m looking forward to listening to this one!
RolandDenzel We’ll miss you, Roland….but have fun!
I have sooo many questions for Mat. I can’t wait.
So bummed I can’t be on tonight. Who knew educating the youth of the US would get in the way of important stuff like this?
Evening all
Have fun, guys – I’ll have to watch this one next week, when school’s back. Last day of school holidays is chaos central here.
Carl Sinclair I sense you’re in need of a bridge and goats, Mr. Troll.
Demelza Carlton Have fun! 🙂
David Anson Hello David
Evening folks!
xgranville Hey there
xgranville Wut ^, playa
PatrickStemp xgranville Stemper!
So much singing in the pre party
Ohai
Starting!
RChazzChute Better than farting
Troubled mothers?
BatmanErica He’s at parent teacher conferences
michelleread don’t fathers go too?
Watching with no audio. I must say you all are quite handsome.
Hi all!
BatmanErica michelleread If they’re good daddies!
What is Matt drinking?
BuddyGott Buddy!!!
michelleread BuddyGott Michelle!!!
writerwade We miss your face, though : )
Mats journals are super impressive. I tried it for one day….and then stopped.
Not a long time ago. You’re younger than me!
I saw him the three times this year 🙂
BatmanErica He’s bonkers
Evening
MrJohnRead Harrrrrowww there
Evening
Nutryneaux Evening!!
Wish I had a milkshake to drink
BatmanErica Would bring all the boys to the yard…
For the most recent times Mat did 50k in a day, did he outline beforehand?
MrJohnRead Hey John
He said he did.
MrJohnRead are you stalking your wife?
Nutryneaux I’m THINKING, there’d be no other way to do it….
Always, but I prefer the term aggressive following…
BatmanErica I had an oreo milkshake today.
Beat me to it
BuddyGott Hello Mr. Gott
Hello Patrick!
michelleread so what does that mean? Is it shaking bewbs to attract the boys?
Hello sir!
BatmanErica michelleread bewwwwwwwbs. Yes I assume so. No idea.
Stimpy?
Matt, will be using the ideas from your 50k marathon books for other books?
MrJohnRead You eeediot!
Lots of smiles. Mat must be saying some good stuff.
writerwade they’re talking about how alcohol is good for lubricating the creative muscles 🙂
writerwade Don’t YOU wish you had audio. Should see this in show chat…..Robert keeps making me laugh.
BatmanErica writerwade : ) : ) : )
It’s great for lubricating lots of things! Cars, Pluming, I could go on!
I just started using RescueTime!
PiaSparks Excellent! Do you like it?
michelleread PiaSparks Love it!
michelleread writerwade I’m going to watch this before bed tonight. It’s killing me that I can’t read lips. 🙂
PiaSparks michelleread Will you link it for us?
xgranville pluming?
writerwade michelleread womp womp
michelleread PiaSparks https://www.rescuetime.com/
PiaSparks michelleread Thaaaaaaaank you
BatmanErica xgranville Imagine it. A tap from which booze pours…
xgranville I don’t drink booze…chocolate milk?
Nutryneaux I’m waiting for a lull to ask this…
michelleread Nutryneaux I wanted to know if it was just an “exercise” or was there useful ideas gained?
BatmanErica xgranville Yum!
Nutryneaux michelleread Looks like it came up naturally!
xgranville Nutryneaux michelleread I reminded them in the chat and Robert is awesome
michelleread xgranville Nutryneaux 🙂
Watching Matt motivated me to write while watching / listening.
BatmanErica I would love to have it in the background……would be better than him yelling at me to get to work. Ahem. matmorrisauthor
Mat, can you talk about pen names? Use one? Not use one? What helped you decide… Do the other authors on the panel use pen names?
Nutryneaux That’s a good question!
michelleread matmorrisauthor they did some writing sprints as well
Working on it
MrJohnRead Allon-z!
xgranville MrJohnRead ^^ Best comment of the evening thus far
http://lifehacker.com/convert-handwritten-notes-to-digital-text-for-the-best-1583892163
MrJohnRead you’re famous now for popping in!
I have a Samsung S Note phone that converts my writing (with a stylus) to typed text. It comes with Polaris, which is basically the MS Office suite, so I can transfer it to my computer.
writerrobynlarue Aren’t those the big big phones? I love those……
Semiconscious but listening intently.
RichardPRigoli Aren’t we all
RichardPRigoli Woohoo!
RichardPRigoli Hi there!
Any more questions for the smart boys?
michelleread Or the smart girl.
How to you keep inspired? and do you have to work at getting story ideas or do you keep a notebook for when the ideas hit?
Phil Collins has synesthesia. I read a cosy mystery where the MC has synesthesia.
Suzanna Reeves Yesssssss……on the queue
BatmanErica It was Aphex Twin that I was talking about.
xgranville I thought Phil Collins would be more well known 😛
BatmanErica xgranville I lurrrrrrrve Phil Collins
Imagine how it would handle a kiwi accent!
michelleread BatmanErica xgranville Dat Tarzan soundtrack…
BatmanErica Kiwi accents….so nice 🙂
The only bad thing about using the built in dictation for Mac is you need internet access.
michelleread well I’m not using the PC to use dragon. Pfft.
PiaSparks that wouldn’t work for me. My internet is turned off during the day so I can write :/
BatmanErica PiaSparks That’s why I use Dragon for Mac.
After-PARTY! If you want in, let us know here!
Personal limelight.
xgranville me me me!
BatmanErica PiaSparks Awesome thank you!
I want in please
Send us your email. You need a Google+ account
https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/gzigbh77i5e3rhcgia52gqc5nqa
MFAbernathy Excellent! See you soon. Click that link.
Click that!
michelleread Not too big. as wide as an aPhone but taller. Works GREAT for writing on, though. 🙂
writerrobynlarue michelleread I’m in the market for a new one so……..I thank ya!
michelleread BatmanErica It’s reeaaaaally not, you guys. =P
wave forms? xgranville . how much weed did you smoke before this show?
Carl Sinclair xgranville Yes Carl, a waveform. A waveform is an image that represents an audio signal or recording. It
shows the changes in amplitude over a certain amount of time. The
amplitude of the signal is measured on the y-axis (vertically), while
time is measured on the x-axis (horizontally).
The image I’ve attached is an example of a song by Aphex Twin, when viewed as a waveform, i.e. a visual representation of what the sound ‘looks like’. Aphex Twin has synesthesia, and often incorporates art into the actual waveforms of his music. It’s art that you hear.
And as far as the weed remark, how about we keep this chat room somewhat professional?
PiaSparks Not sure if you caught me mention it at the end of the broadcast, but you can actually enable an “offline” version of the dictation.
System Preferences -> Dictation & Speech -> “Use Enhanced Dictation”
BatmanErica Sometimes it feels recent, and then I talk with people that are in that age bracket and I realize just how long ago it was.
michelleread What did you try for one day? Journaling?
xgranville Carl Sinclair since when has the sprt chat ever been professional? I invented the chatroom and the rules within. There are no rules.