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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
62 episodes
Scarcity and Struggle Mindsets
We, as a species, just really love to do things on hard mode.It's indoctrinated into us through society, through our families and workplaces that how we approach things has to be on the most difficult mode possible. The thing is, what we...
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Middle Swamp
Every story has a beginning, middle and end, and while some might say they struggle with writing every part of a story (which is fair enough - stories are bloody hard to write) a lot of people often pick the middle part as the most difficult to...
What Every Great Story Needs
✨📝Thank you for being a subscriber to this show📝✨There really is just one main element within story telling which makes us fall in love with a story.As always when it comes to writing though, it's not a simple thing that ...
Bonus: Macklemore Post
Sometimes the world just really influences you to say something, so here I am saying something quite unplanned about recent events which have occurred in the music industry in the past week, and what we, as creators, can take away from the situ...
Strength and Weaknesses in Writing
As a person, we have our strength and weaknesses.As creators, we also have our strength and weaknesses.However, this isn't a conversation we have a lot amongst creators. Perhaps it's because the majority of creators are so riddled...
Atmospheric Writing
There are so many types of writers out in the world.There are the writers who love to do world building, who thrive with character dialogue, who get really into the layers of their character's personality and physical appearances, and th...
Character Story Arcs
✨📝Thank you for being a subscriber to this show📝✨What's a character without it's story arc? Pretty fricken boring.Our characters need to show growth and change between the beginning and the end of the story, a...
Layers Within Art
We as creators have the choice to either create something bland that can be referred to as content, or we have the ability to spend time with a project and add depths of layers to it to give it a feeling of art. Today we're discussi...
Seeds of Fiction
Unknowingly, we read so many stories which have a seed of origin we're not aware of. In the white western world, we're all aware of the most famous seeds of fiction like Merlin and King Arthur, Robin Hood and the fairy tales of the Brothers Gri...
Power of Fiction
✨📝Thank you for being a subscriber to this show✨Historically, fiction writers weren't taken seriously.Today, that sentiment still unconsciously holds true.We don't take writers seriously. Instead, we consistently u...
Monoculture
If we stick to consuming art we’re familiar with, we’ll never know what could be and grow as creators. As consumers, it is totally fine to find what you love and stick with it, but as creators we have to be willing to dip our toes i...
Articulation vs Vocabulary
Articulation or vocabulary, which is more important?Today, we discuss the requirement of a writer's vocabulary to tell a good story and addressing the growing trend that seems to be focusing on how articulation has a play in how we appea...
Internal Conflicts
✨📝Thank you for being a subscriber to this show📝✨Today we're focusing on a specific TV show that really demonstrated the power of internal conflicts and why they are so valuable to your character/s and story line.We also ...
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. 🌟This episode wi...
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...