The Writing Apothecary Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Writing Apothecary and the next interview as we chat about the writing process. Today's chat is with a return guest, Sarah L Richhelm, who appeared on our Plot interview. It was great to have her back and chat about her process and how she liked editing... Official Bio: Sarah is a serial cookie-in-tea dunker and Spotify playlist curator and adores writing slow-burn...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Writing Apothecary and the next interview as we chat about the writing process. Today's chat is with fellow creative entrepreneur Monique Kostelec. We chat about her process and how she loves almost every part of the process. Official Bio: At 18, Monique was adamant that she would be the next Amal Clooney. As it turned out, she was more suited for the path of Georg...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary Podcast - and a side quest if you must - about Writing Process and the way that every author does it differently. I can't wait for you to dig into this. The same bite sized episodic format is back.  To kick off the first episode you get to see a BTS all about my own writing process. I've broken down the questions that I ask my guest...

Send us Fan Mail 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: What defines a fighting scene? The kinds of fighting scenes. The language of fighting scenes. Caroline's take on all things fighting scenes. ...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary and our next lesson on Fight scenes. We're looking at the emotional battlefield and how it can affect your character.  We're covering: Depths of Fighting Scenes What is needed from the scenes What it takes to make the battlefield work. Tell me what did you take away from this week's lesson? I'd love to know Also, I would r...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary and our next lesson on Fight scenes. We're looking at the emotional battlefield and how it can affect your character.  We're covering: Character motives Going back to basics Internal Conflict External Conflict Emotional triggers Tell me what did you take away from this week's lesson? I'd love to know Also, I would really a...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to a episode and a new topic. The next two months we're exploring Fight Scenes and we have a great guest to top it all off.  Fight scenes have always been a challenge for a lot of people, myself included, and we're going to explore two side of fight scenes: Emotional Fight Scenes Action Fight Scenes I'm so excited to get into the topics and explore what...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary and to our interview for the topic. Viv and I dive deep into creativity with an amazing chat to get you into the mood to sit your arse down and create.  In today's chat here are some of the things we covered: Creativity  Human Design Supporting yourself Morning pages About Viv: In this current season, Viv Kruckow’s soul purpose is follow...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary and our last lesson before our amazing chat with our great guest.  I’m so excited to talk about Creativity and I’m going to preface this by saying that the best information that you can find is actually a Wikipedia page on Creativity, I’ll link it in the show notes because it’s so good. And I know, I know it’s a wiki page but one of my univer...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary and to a new lesson. Today we're looking at the history of the muse. And it was so much fun to go through and find what information I could about them.  The Muses are inspirational goddess of literature, science and art. The 9 muses are: Calliope was the Muse who represented epic poetry. Her implement was the writing tablet. Clio was the...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new topic! We're going to look at Creativity and the Muse. I make some pretty big statements too, but before that let's take a peek into what will come. It's also the first episode back after the huge year that was! I cover it in the episode. We’ll be looking at the history behind the muse and just what creativity is.  Creativity will not wait for you....

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary podcast and to our interview with the most divine human ever. I got to interview Amie Mcnee who is the perfect most perfect guest for Writer's Block. It's been a challenge to get here! This episode is so delayed due to me getting the spicy cough and have been dealing with all of the fatigue that comes with it, but we're back an...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary podcast and to our last theory lesson on Writer's Block. It's a bit late as I had the spicy cough and was pretty exhausted. But we're back into it. Writer’s Block is such a personal thing and I’ve loved hearing from you guys and opening up the conversation about Writer’s block because it is so different for everyone and I think...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to our second lesson on writer’s block. I hope that you’ve all been productive. I know I have. Or at least I have tried to be. I’ve sent my manuscript to my editor and it’s with BETA readers. It’s making me so nervous but I’m trying to keep busy, which is good. I’m trying to get ahead with the podcast because it does take a lot of time and effort to get it done. I’m a...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to a new year and a new topic. 2021 is behind us and I can’t believe that we’re in 2022! Wowiiiie.  I hope everyone has had some great time off. I spent some of my time off in Adelaide with my mum and basically being a mermaid and then just getting back into my retail job. Things are gearing up and are a little mental at the moment but that will pass. I know it will....

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary and our interview for revision. Today's guest is published author Jess Faraday and we talk about all things revision. As a traditionally published author she has a different take on revisions and an important one. In today's chat we talk about: First drafts Time between revisions Looking as aspects How to flip the revisions on their...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Writing Apothecary and the last lesson for revision. Last week was a big one and we're following it up with the smaller things.  Life has been a bit hectic so this one is a little bit late, but better to be late than never! First thing is first, reading your draft out loud, does wonders. You can find the natural pace of the dialogue and all of the words yo...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary and to our new lesson on revision: the big picture.  All of the work we have done to get here has actually been foundational. We’ve looked at what makes up a story and what is so important to a story but now we’re turning it on its head and looking at it from a revision point of view and not a writing point of view. Both are very different. T...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary Podcast and back to another new topic! Cutting down the monthly topic to bimonthly has helped clear space and allow for me to have the mental capacity to work with my creativity instead of against it. I'm appreciative to everyone for still supporting the podcast. Our bimonthly topic is: Revision and I'm so excited. The aim is to tak...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to another episode of the Writing Apothecary Podcast and today do I have an amazing guest for you this week. As we look at our last lesson on genre we have the most amazing guest on board. Lindsay is such an amazing writer and so sweet. Our chat left me energised and so excited to tackle what was coming up. We chat about her favourite genres and what genre tropes work...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Writing Apothecary and our last lesson for Genre. Today we're looking at sci-fi, horror and thriller.  Science fiction or sci-fi as it’s commonly known is another sub-genre of speculative fiction. It typically deals with imaginative and futurist concepts such as Science technology Space exploration Time travel Parellel universes  Extra terrestrial It’s als...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to another lesson of The Writing Apothecary. Today we’re going to look at three different sub-genres: Fantasy, Romance and Mystery. If you’re wondering why these three? Well, fantasy is my jam, I really love everything about it and it’s the genre I know the most about. You know the age-old advice of write what you know applies here, ha!  First, did you know that it wa...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary and this month we're looking at Genre.  If you're on the podcast's newsletter list you would have read that we're changing up the format a little. The podcast is moving to bi-weekly /fortnightly episodes to help with my sanity and give me some much needed space. It takes a lot to write, record and edit these episodes and I...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary and to our interview all about Dialogue with romance, fantasy and sci-fi writer Alyce Johnson.  In our chat we have a cover: How important dialogue is to a story. What classifies as bad dialogue. If a story can survive without dialogue. How Alyce uses tension in her stories.  I had so much fun and her novella was a brilliant read.  If you lov...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary and our last lesson on dialogue.  I’d like to think that we all agree on how good dialogue is and what its purpose can be. You can use dialogue to make a story more lifelike and really it’s the part that allows your characters to speak for themselves. In real life, you can’t really get to know someone unless you talk to them and it’s the same...