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Faded Fragments: A Nexus Series Novel
Faded Fragments. Two words that came to me after I decided to change the original name of my novel (fyi it was first dubbed Kiss of The Dead and I used the font Papyrus to write it.) I was 14 when the story first came to mind. It started with a scene and to be honest it started as a result of finally seeing The Mummy and falling more in love with Ancient Egyptian mythology (and a young Brendan Fraser…let’s be real, Rick was and still is the dreamiest man ever). The first draft of FF was messy, it was incomplete and was just a scene with minimal action and…
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What Writing Mindset Coaching with me looks like
This has been a blog post that I have been trying to write and I have been putting it off for a while, but I’ve hit Resistance and I’ve hit my own Self Doubt. Two of the biggest problem that not only myself but sometimes I have worked with time and time again with clients. I call self-doubt by what I know it as: Inner Editor (IE). This voice is the one that tells us that our writing is crap, that we can’t do it and that we’ll never have anything to show for all of our effort. That we’re quitters. Our IE is the reason resistance comes up, it’s…
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Fight Scenes: Interview with Fantasy Author Caroline Logan
Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary and to our interview for the topic. Caroline and I dive deep into the all things fight scenes and how to better your writing of them. In today’s chat here are some of the things we covered: About Caroline:Caroline Logan is a writer of Young Adult Fantasy. She is currently working on her Scottish fantasy series: The Four Treasures. The Stone of Destiny, The Cauldron of Life and The Sword of Light are out now, with the final book – The Spear of Life out now. Caroline is a high school biology teacher who lives in the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland, with…
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Protected: Faded Fragments – Complimentary Ebook
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Destressing The Creative
I’m probably renowned by a lot of friends for being a bit of a stress head and someone who overthinks a lot, which is not untrue, but there are two words I actually hate hearing: Don’t Stress, because no matter how many times I hear these words, it never actually helps. In fact, if you have known me for longer than six months, you’ll know that those very two words will make me hang up on you, slam a door in your face and not talk to you until you understand that stressing is a part of my process. I will bitch and moan about how stressed I am and…
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Why?
What’s your why when it comes to your novel? I want to know. What makes your story stand out in comparison to someone else writing the same story? What is your writing why? I was listening to a podcast – one of my favourites about Self Publishing – The Self Publishing Show – and there was something that was really powerful in the way that they spoke about knowing the why behind your story. I think it’s the most powerful driving force of your story. Why does the story need to be written from that point of view? Or what makes your version of the story so amazing that it…
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Become a Patreon
I’ve been hoarding my Patreon for years, because I’ve been too scared to launch it out into the nest because it meant keeping myself accountable and it meant that I was putting myself out there, but it’s been on my business board for so long and the closer I am getting to releasing my novel, I’m finding more and more things that I have been procrastinating on. This has been one of the biggers ones – along with my shop (which is just more of a fund thing) but I’m done hiding. I’m done making myself smaller because I’m scared. I deserve to get the most out of my talent…
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Welcome to Fight Scenes
Welcome back to a new episode and a new topic. The next two months we’re exploring Fight Scenes and we have a great guest to top it all off. Fight scenes have always been a challenge for a lot of people, myself included, and we’re going to explore two side of fight scenes: I’m so excited to get into the topics and explore what it looks like when we dive deeper into it. The guest we have is a new author and I can’t wait for you to hear the chat I’ve had the pleasure of having. Tell me what did you take away from this week’s lesson? I’d love…
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Creativity and The Muse: Interview with Creativity Mentor Viv Kruckow
Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary and to our interview for the topic. Viv and I dive deep into creativity with an amazing chat to get you into the mood to sit your arse down and create. In today’s chat here are some of the things we covered: About Viv:In this current season, Viv Kruckow’s soul purpose is following her joy and supporting humans to explore their creative essence and dance with their desires ~ because we all deserve ease, abundance and joy. This takes shape as mentoring creatives through 1:1 sessions, group containers, self-paced courses and writing. Viv is known for her warmth and gift of making those around…
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Creativity and The Muse: Creativity
Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary and our last lesson before our amazing chat with our great guest. I’m so excited to talk about Creativity and I’m going to preface this by saying that the best information that you can find is actually a Wikipedia page on Creativity, I’ll link it in the show notes because it’s so good. And I know, I know it’s a wiki page but one of my university lecturers swore that it was and I’m taking his word on it. I’m also going to try and keep today’s episode a little light but there is a lot to cover, grab yourself a beverage if you…
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Creativity and The Muse: The History of the Muse
Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary and to a new lesson. Today we’re looking at the history of the muse. And it was so much fun to go through and find what information I could about them. The Muses are inspirational goddess of literature, science and art. The 9 muses are: Who is your favourite muse? Tell me what did you take away from this week’s lesson? I’d love to know Also, I would really appreciate it if you took the time to rate and review the podcast it helps people find our community and gets the podcast out into the world a little more.Want exclusive behind the scenes and…
