Diary of a Writer

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...