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Episode 013: Know Your Writing Cycle

Are you beholden to other people’s ideas about how fast/often you should write? Do you keep aiming for marks set by everyone but you and then miss them? Then this episode is for you. I look at the way...

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Episode 014: the Author Alchemist Origin Story!

This episode is a little bit of history, specifically my history as a writer, alpha reader, and creativity coach. If you have been wondering why I started this podcast, then this is the episode you’ve...

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Episode 015: My year of not writing

Shit happens. It happens to the best of us. This episode is about what happened when my own personal shit hit the fan.  I spent a year not writing. That’s right: not eeking out even a word of fiction....

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Episode 016: The Writer’s Heroic Journey

Everyone loves the “Hero’s Journey” as a writing tool to map out epic stories. It is also used as a self-help guide for analizing the story of our personal lives, allowing us to place our experiences...

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Welcome to 2020! here have a podcast :)

Welcome to 2020! here have a podcast Ayyyyye, this is an ad-hoc podcast I recorded on the fly to welcome everyone to 2020! It’s short and sweet and missing all the bells and whistles, but please...

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Episode 017: Character Growth!

Episode 017: Character Growth! I’m going to do something different with show notes this episode! Down below the Alchemical Lesson of the week I will start putting my episode outline, the “cue card” I...

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Episode 018: Secrets of Alpha Readers!

Episode 018: Secrets of Alpha Readers! Do you even know what an alpha reader is? Those of you who are involved in fandom might have heard of it, or at least know about “beta readers“, but I promise,...

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Episode 019: Growth Mindset for Writers

Episode 019: Growth Mindset for Writers Sometimes our greatest hurdle, as writers, is our own mindset.  HA HA NO actually ALL THE TIME our greatest hurdle is our mindset. Too bad, so sad! There are a...

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Episode 020: Happily Ever After is VALID

Episode 020: Happily Ever After is VALID I don’t talk about this too much in this podcast but one the most important influence in life for learning to love Happily Ever After (HEA) ending is...

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Episode 021: The Creative Gap

Episode 021: The Creative Gap What we imagine in our head as our masterpiece of art and storytelling sometimes doesn’t appear on the page with all the full glory that we feel it is supposed to have....

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