# S5 Ep5: Mur Lafferty - Facing Down the Demons Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374/s5-ep5-mur-lafferty-facing-down-the-demons Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374/s5-ep5-mur-lafferty-facing-down-the-demons.md Podcast: [The Failing Writers Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374) Published: 2025-05-26T00:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/failing-writers/episodes/s5-ep5-mur-lafferty Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66202cf262f822001203895b/e/68303cae9cad4906be70e008/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374/episodes/s5-ep5-mur-lafferty-facing-down-the-demons Duration seconds: 3063 ## Resource Welcome back to the Failing Writers Podcast - Sponsored by the brilliant and indispensable writing software: Scrivener. Get 20% off Scrivener right now, by using the code FAILING at https://www.literatureandlatte.com/ OK. Now, People…  buckle up. You’re about to enter the Murverse. Cos our guest this week is the lovely Mur Lafferty. A scifi / fantasy writer and podcaster whose refreshingly candid insights into writing and publishing caught our eye a while ago. Being a fan of all things brutally honest, we thought it would be a fascinating exercise to join Mur in drilling down into the dark corners of our psyches by asking those horribly uncomfortable questions about writing. The idea being, that hopefully they might shed some light on the ways we could face down some of our demons. And so… we created… THE WHEEL OF TERROR. A random-spinny-machine designed to pick all the questions we’d rather not answer. There is no escape from the Wheel of Terror. Why not ask yourself the questions?  (See all the questions at the bottom of the show-notes) Find out more and connect with Mur here: as well as finding a list of her books... (‘Six Wakes’ is the book Jon read and enjoyed.) https://murverse.com/ And check out Mur’s podcast “I Should Be Writing” here: https://podfollow.com/79085800   1          What is holding you back from being one of the most celebrated writers of our time? (Oh… you have a list…) 2          What’s your biggest weakness as a writer? 3          What’s your current criteria for ’success’? 4          Why do you reaaaally write? I mean…… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374/episodes/s5-ep5-mur-lafferty-facing-down-the-demons/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374/s5-ep5-mur-lafferty-facing-down-the-demons.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.