Finding Elara

In this episode Dianna talks about her favourite questions to think about when it comes the the middle layer of the worldbuilding cake, reveals the winner of last weeks competition, reviews realm of beasts in the Buffy night segment and announces a new competition including a special key word for anyone who wants to enter.

Meet Donna Marree Hanson as she talks about her fantasy and science fiction career providing worldbuilding and craft tips on what has learned along the way. In the Buffy night section Donna talks about the evolution of lost in space.

Dianna talks about what she had to do in week 2 of the worldbuilding course she had gifted from Sue-Ellen about the foundation layer of the world. The Buffy night segment was a season 1 review of Legacies and the new competition was announced including a secret word you have to listen to the show to find out what it is. 

Dianna and Sue-Ellen talk about worldbuilding and mindfulness strategies that were used when creating Aquila and her other novels. Sue-Ellen also talks about how she got into writing in the first place and what about this art she like the most.

In this episode Dianna Talks about how she is progressing through Sue-Ellens Pashley's world building course and reviews Shatterwing by Donna Marree Hansen in the buffy night section. The week was the introduction to the course and reaffirmed Dianna's belief that any work of fiction requires worldbuilding.

As this is the quarter of a century episode Dianna brought a guest back from episode 7 and 8. They talked about what has happened since the last time they had a chance to talk. 

Continuing her research to complete her Maejin story Dianna talks about the origin of Genies in many cultures and the belief some people have they are real and still around today. 

In this Episode Dianna interviews Historical Romance Author Sasha Cottman. They talk about her writing journey, the pre-establishes rules of historical romance and what happens when you don't follow them. 

In this Episode Dianna talks about different wedding traditions around the world after researching for her cupid story. There may be a few traditions that surprise you.

Dianna talks to Craig about his worldbuilding styles when creating campaigns in Dungeons and Dragons. How he plans and works through the decisions that people make during the game. How he finds a way to reuse any redundancy and what he plans for the future.

In this short episode Dianna offers up the 5 tips to setting yourself up for good writing habits and talks about her current WIP about an anti cupid.

Dianna interviews artist Frank Over about how his art has been shaped from his life experiences. 

After receiving a negative response Dianna is now part of the club and discovered some handy tips to deal with this response in a mindful way. 

In this episode Dianna Talks to Cassie about her debut Novel Unforsaken, her world building processes and why angels. There are a few laughs and a lot of good tips. 

Dianna talks about her goal for 2019. 

In this episode we talk to Australian Fairytale society ring leader Carole about her love of fairy tales folk lore and her own novels.

Looking st the different roles family members play in fiction that assist in determining the motivation of the main character.

In this episode Dianna intervies Derek Doepker about his unique POWER goal setting method and his journey into writing.

Dianna talks about her plans for next years interview and the results from putting out a request for new people to come on the show.

In this episode I interview fantasy writer Cari Jehlik about her mindfulness and world building.

Five time Nano champ Dianna talks about her Nano stories and future plans for the show.

Today we talk about mindful practices with Pauline wiles and listen to an exerpt from her book Saving Saffron Sweeting. 

In this episode I share the second part of my interview with Allie McCormack on her writing journey and talk about second life.

Building worlds with words and sharing those words with the world. Today's words come from Allie McCormack about her writing style with the stories that she has created so far. 

In this episode Dianna talks about some Nanowrimo strategies and answers some questions about the Elaran World.