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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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    The Types of Voice

    Episode 006 Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary podcast and to our second lesson on Voice. This week I’ve broken down the ways that voice can show up in your writing. The most important takeaway from last week is that we need to learn to separate our writerly voice from our own authorial voice. Can we do that? Yes! And here’s the way that it can be done.  For this week I’ve drawn on the help from The Gotham Writers’s Workshop Writing Fiction resource (I love this book, it has so much in it and it’s so rich with info to help you as a writer) The types of voice:…