DEEP CUTS Episode 46: A Pro Writer’s Daily Routine

Scott Sigler Slices: SLAY

Empty Set Entertainment

Books, Fiction, Arts, Science Fiction

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

As a pro writer and podcaster, Scott wears many hats: writer, marketer, technology expert, social media manager, face of the brand, and more. On this episode, we discuss how he fits in all the different obligations and manages creative speedbumps and other distractions. Deep Cuts is created by Scott Sigler and A B Kovacs Produced by Steve Riekeberg Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2025 by Empty Set Entertainment Going big time with your writing career? Snag a new three-year dot com domain for your author site and save a whopping ninety-nine percent by using GoDaddy Promo Code CJCFOSSIG. Make sure your adoring fans know just where to find you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, those pro full-time writers, they lounge about all day in their bathrobes and bunny slippers,
0:04.9	while new bile assistants of indeterminate age, peel them grapes, do all the research for them,
0:09.6	manage their schedules, and after never daily pause of mantras, as the books magically write themselves,
0:14.6	because writers are so talented. It's like they are on permanent vacation, while they order
0:19.5	gold-plated rakes from Amazon to haul in all the money that falls from the trees like dandruff from angels.
0:28.1	FDO, I live with you. And other than our puppies, I don't see any nubile assistance of indeterminate age?
0:38.8	Of course not because I work for a living, and I have a specific daily routine to make sure I
0:43.3	get as much done as I can.
0:45.5	That sounds more like it.
0:47.6	We'll go over a pro-writers' daily routine, Scott's daily routine, that is, right after
0:52.9	this quick break.
0:59.6	Thank you. Scott's daily routine, that is, right after this quick break. DC high volume, Batman.
1:03.2	The Dark Knights definitive DC comic stories adapted directly for audio for the very first time.
1:11.1	Fear.
1:12.6	I have to make them afraid.
1:14.4	He's got a motorcycle. Get after him or have you shot?
1:18.8	What do you mean blow up the building?
1:20.7	From this moment on, none of you are safe.
1:24.7	New episodes every Wednesday, wherever you get your podcasts.
1:34.1	Welcome to Deep Cuts, the bonus episodes of the Scott Sigler Slicest Fiction Podcasts,
1:38.4	where a sci-fi author and an audiobook narrator discuss things and stuff in the world
1:42.6	of fiction and pop culture.
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