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Diary of a Writer
People are fascinated with the idea of writing. So many people say, 'I want to write a novel,' but so few actually know what's entailed. The Diary of a Writer is an inside look at the life of a full-time writer, who's been writing for over a decade and actively publishing stories over that time. Messy, chaotic, vulnerable and exhausting, the Diary of a Writer, should not be read by the feint hearted.
Ink will be spilt; fingers shall crack; pages will go missing.
Episodes
49 episodes
Saving Grace
It's been a tough week, but within that difficulty, I've found a new way to connect to my writing, which I haven't much explored before. And somehow, in that new and unexplored connection it's become a saving grace.
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Female Agency
Today we're focusing on the portrayal of female characters in fiction and how there is a trend in how we write and portray women in stories, and how that portrayal is really f*cking unhealthy and hasn't changed enough. This episode ...
Character Motivation
It's a new day and a new session of writing came a long, and this time the writing session left me chopping off the ending of my current manuscript and working on a new outline, because hey, like our lives, our characters’ lives have so many di...
Increasing Productivity
✨📝Thank you for being a subscriber to this show📝✨There are so many people out there selling ways and habits you can adopt to increase your productive output with your creative work.Funnily enough, I find we're generally l...
Gut Navigation
Every writer’s secret power is their gut.Our gut feeling (or intuition) can help us so much while developing our creative projects, because usually the gut will tell us something is wrong before our mind realises there is a problem.<...
Unlikeable Characters
Writing has evolved over time, but lately, it doesn't seem like it's for the better. Whether it be books, TV shows or movies, we're all seeing a decline in quality in scripts and productions and fumbling marketing moves that make no sense.<...
Erasure
Works of art are supposed to represent people, but so often art only represents a small minority of the worlds population. Today, we discuss the importance of representation in our art and how we may unknowingly be erasing certain parts of our ...
Art vs Content
✨📝Thank you for being a subscriber to this show📝✨There's a lot of competition out there in all art industries, but the problem is a lot of industries don't just attract real artists but content creators; and if you exist even a ...
Back Story
Over the last two years, I have been working heavily on the front end of my third fantasy novel for the series, A Royal Life, and I've finally reached the midway section to realise that not only is the ending of the novel going to chan...
The Boy Underneath the Fur
Inspiration can hit us at any moment and time, sometimes even after reading a stupid post on the internet that doesn't align with our beliefs ...Today, I'm discussing a process I went through recently whereby I did exactly that; how I ch...
Transparency
In the name of transparency, here is a small life update and how things will be changing on the show going forward.Note - Since recording this, I have decided to try publishing an episode on a five day cycle. It means episodes will be dr...
Surrender to Creativity
Welcome to Season 3!To kick things off we are having a chat about one of the core requirements to be a creative: surrendering to creative flow.Creativity energy doesn't always show up on a schedule, but we can learn to work with i...
Twilight and 50 Shades: Creative Umbrella
💖 📝Thank you for being a subscriber to this show📝💖Last episode covering the Twilight and 50 Shades series AND last episode of Season 2! 🎉🌟Thank you for being a part of the journey!Today, we are covering why every c...
Twilight and 50 Shades: Sex Addictions and Erotica Fiction
There's a conversation happening more and more in our society: how people can become addicted to sex. But this conversation is mostly reserved for men, and because we spend so much time tearing women down for reading erotica fiction...
Twilight and 50 Shades: The Quality of Writing
💖 📝Thank you for being a subscriber to this show📝💖So, here we are, finally addressing the elephant in the room when it comes to Twilight and 50 Shades: the quality, or as some might say, lack thereof, in the writing.Howev...
Twilight and 50 Shades: Location and Cultural Influence
Today we're continuing with discussing the Twilight and 50 Shades series, and this time we're discussion an aspect of what the books did well.Each western country has their cherry-pickings for where they like to set their stories. Twilig...
Twilight and 50 Shades: The Sh*t Stirrers of the Industry
💖 📝Thank you for being a subscriber to this show📝💖Today, we are back discussing Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey, and the focus is, how these two novels in their own way revolutionised the industry and essentially became shit stir...
In Defence of Twilight and 50 Shades
To wrap up season 2, we are going to explore Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey in depth from a perspective of what can creative writers learn from these two series that become a phenomenon across the world.Today’s episode is tackling an iss...
Fatigue with Decision Making
Some may think that when you’re at the tail end of a writing a novel, that things will suddenly get easier and fall into place, but that rarely is the case. There are always those little adjustments that need to be made, and when you’ve been wo...
Your Creative Work Is Important
The world constantly tries to tell us what is important to us, or at least, what is meant to be important to us. But what's important to us has to come from within us, otherwise the importance we try to put onto something is just a fak...
Evil, Better and Ready (Play On Words)
💖 📝Thank you for being a subscriber to this show📝💖This episode is a little unhinged ...I got frustrated at the world and it's basic use of language, especially after an event that happened in Australia. The wa...
Friendships in Fiction
As an avid reader, I keep coming across the same story lines in books. And most of those story lines focus on a romantic partner rather than a friendship.Today, we're discussing this phenomenon where fiction writing is causing us to deva...
Embrace the Chaos
Whilst in the process of redefining the format for my third fantasy novel, I have learnt a new valuable lesson when creating stories: embrace the chaos. As someone who likes structure and planning, that can be really hard. But if it...
Writing Skill vs Writing Talent
💖 📝Thank you for being a subscriber to this show📝💖Is writing a skill or is it a talent?If you hang around with a group of writers long enough, this question will come up. Everyone will, naturally, have their o...
Opening Chapters - How Not To Do It
Today I am reviewing five novels and discussing why they're opening chapters don't hit the mark. No, I'm not naming names, but yes, they're all bestsellers, which I suppose just goes to show that even the so called 'best' have issues.Thi...