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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…
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Welcome to Creativity and the Muse
Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary Podcast and to a new topic. Whew, it was a lot and it has taken me so long to get here. To be honest? In all of that I was also fine tuning my novel. I released an aesthetic video on TikTok and Insta with a date, but that didn’t happen. But I just sent my copy edits back to my editor and she’s doing the line edits before I get my manuscript ready for my proof reader. And all the while I’ve done that I’ve just sent it to some beta readers because I’m seriously doubting my vision and the way the story…
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Book Review: Unwinding The Spiral
This is going to be the kind of book review that is 100% biased. If you’re looking for one that isn’t, check out the Goodreads one that has been reposted on a few other platforms. That’s the only warning you get. So buckle in. This Book. This freaking book. It’s a masterpiece. It’s magic. I’m not even ashamed to say that I purchased the first copy, before the release date because I was so eager. And that meant that I purchased both the ebook and the physical copy. I’m not even ashamed of it. And I feel like I need to explain the beautiful soul behind the book to really…
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Writer’s Block: An Interview with Creativity Coach Amie Mcnee
Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary podcast and to our interview with the most divine human ever. I got to interview Amie Mcnee who is the perfect most perfect guest for Writer’s Block. It’s been a challenge to get here! This episode is so delayed due to me getting the spicy cough and have been dealing with all of the fatigue that comes with it, but we’re back and we’re ready. In today’s chat here are some of the topics we chat about: Writer’s Block Procrastination Amie’s relationship with both Journalling Giving ourselves permission to drop expectations And so much more. This is a chat you don’t want to miss…
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Writer’s Block: Touchstones and How to Heal It
Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary podcast and to our last theory lesson on Writer’s Block. It’s a bit late as I had the spicy cough and was pretty exhausted. But we’re back into it. Writer’s Block is such a personal thing and I’ve loved hearing from you guys and opening up the conversation about Writer’s block because it is so different for everyone and I think that it’s a great opportunity to talk to other writers about how it feels or what you can do to help heal it, which is what we’re talking about today. There are ways to help alleviate writer’s block when you are working through…
