Diary of a Writer

Send in a question about writing you'd like to see answered on the show! 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 write. Today, we are discussing why writing the middle part of the story is su...

Send in a question about writing you'd like to see answered on the show! 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 situation.  🌟This episode will be available for every listener for six months from...

Send in a question about writing you'd like to see answered on the show! 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 with self-doubt, we don't even think it's possible to have any strengt...

Send in a question about writing you'd like to see answered on the show! 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 then there's the writers who just have this incredible ability to create atmo...

Send in a question about writing you'd like to see answered on the show! 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 Grimm, but there's a bunch of other stories and characters that are...

Send in a question about writing you'd like to see answered on the show! 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 discussion a recently released album that did phenomenally well to show the different layers...

Send in a question about writing you'd like to see answered on the show! 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 into other waters. It’s the only way to develop into a well-rounded creator, and help chang...

Send in a question about writing you'd like to see answered on the show! 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 appear and show up to the world.  Note - This is not focused on expecting any person...

Send in a question about writing you'd like to see answered on the show! 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 will be available for every listener for six months from the date of pu...

Send in a question about writing you'd like to see answered on the show! 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 was inspired by a particular TV show that was recently released and which I&apos...

Send in a question about writing you'd like to see answered on the show! 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 different paths they can take.  The problem is, after playing around with so...

Send in a question about writing you'd like to see answered on the show! 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. The issue? Having a quiet enough mind and enough faith in yourself to listen.  🌟This epi...

Send in a question about writing you'd like to see answered on the show! 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. This means that it is getting genuinely harder and harder to find pi...

Send in a question about writing you'd like to see answered on the show! 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 population if we look at the status quo and never question it.  🌟This episode...

Send in a question about writing you'd like to see answered on the show! 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 change once again, but that the tail end of the story is going to be much easier to wri...

Send in a question about writing you'd like to see answered on the show! 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 channelled my frustration down onto the page, and how miraculously, it ended...

Send in a question about writing you'd like to see answered on the show! In the name of transparency, here is a small life update and how things will be changing on the show going forward. Note - Since recording this, I have decided to try publishing an episode on a five day cycle. It means episodes will be dropping more frequently but falling on different days. Obviously, just check back and...

Send in a question about writing you'd like to see answered on the show! Welcome to Season 3! To kick things off we are having a chat about one of the core requirements to be a creative: surrendering to creative flow. Creativity energy doesn't always show up on a schedule, but we can learn to work with it so that it begins to show up when we need it to.  Ultimately, your creative energy s...

Send in a question about writing you'd like to see answered on the show! There's a conversation happening more and more in our society: how people can become addicted to sex.  But this conversation is mostly reserved for men, and because we spend so much time tearing women down for reading erotica fiction, we don't consider the implications of how this material can become addictive t...

Send in a question about writing you'd like to see answered on the show! Today we're continuing with discussing the Twilight and 50 Shades series, and this time we're discussion an aspect of what the books did well. Each western country has their cherry-pickings for where they like to set their stories. Twilight and 50 Shades, however, broke that norm. And Twilight, in particular, di...

Send in a question about writing you'd like to see answered on the show! To wrap up season 2, we are going to explore Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey in depth from a perspective of what can creative writers learn from these two series that become a phenomenon across the world. Today’s episode is tackling an issue that a lot of people probably don't want to talk about and admit, and that is...

Send in a question about writing you'd like to see answered on the show! Some may think that when you’re at the tail end of a writing a novel, that things will suddenly get easier and fall into place, but that rarely is the case. There are always those little adjustments that need to be made, and when you’ve been working for so long and hard on a piece of writing, it can be very fatiguing to h...

Send in a question about writing you'd like to see answered on the show! The world constantly tries to tell us what is important to us, or at least, what is meant to be important to us. But what's important to us has to come from within us, otherwise the importance we try to put onto something is just a fake attempt to fit in.  If your creative work is important to you, that means it&apos...