Dear Creativity...Let's Write

Dear Creativity...Let's Write

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Dear Creativity...Let's Write episodes

  • Tarot for Writers
    This episode is the second tarot chat in a series with author, tarot reader, and book coach Margaret McNellis. Last week, Margaret shared ways to use tarot cards to help you plot your novel and develop your characters. This week, we discuss ways to use the tarot to break through writing blocks and deepen your own writing practice.
    20 min
  • Using Tarot Cards to Develop Your Fiction with Margaret McNellis
    Tarot cards can be a super fun resource to use as you plot your novels and develop your characters. They have layered meanings, images, and symbolism that can open you up to ideas to help you write your best story. In this episode, I chatted with book coach, tarot reader, and author, Margaret McNellis about how to use them to enhance your stories, even if you’ve never picked up a tarot deck before.
    30 min
  • Writing Memoir with Uma Girish
    Reading a great memoir allows us to connect deeply with those who have struggled, who have walked similar journeys to ours. In this conversation with memoirist Uma Girish, we discussed the contract that a writer has with a reader to really dive deep and be honest, her unusual path to a contract with Hay House, and so much more.
    58 min
  • Writing Romantic Comedy with Sandy Barker
    My guest this week, novelist Sandy Barker, is hilarious, loves to travel, and has a soft spot for a good romance novel. She’s been able to tie all that together into a successful career writing romantic comedies most of which are set in exotic locations. In this episode, Sandy shares how she went from self-publishing to landing multi-book deals with a major publishing house as well as an agent, writing tips, how she’s come up with some of her ideas and more. We touched on so much when it comes to writing there are honestly too many little nuggets of wisdom to list here.
    50 min
  • Editing Your Book with Editor Kris Emery
    Editing is a huge piece of the writing process, and it can also feel like one of the most daunting. What kind of editor do you need to hire? What kind of editors and editing are there? How do you work with an editor? How can you find one to work with? We tackle all of these questions nad more in this interview with editor and now author, Kris Emery. Her book Destination Author was released in Feb. 2021, so if you get as much out of this interview as I did, be sure to check out her book on Amazon.
    57 min
  • Becoming a Novelist with Mystery Author Amy S. Peele
    Amy S. Peele, started writing in mid-life after working through The Artist’s Way and discovering that she loves to write. It took a few more years to become an author as she had a thirty-five-year career as a nurse in the organ transplant field. She’s now taken that expertise to the page and has published two, award-winning, medical murder mysteries with a third on the way.
    44 min
  • Lowering Your Expectations to Happily Achieve Your Writing Goals
    In this episode, I share my own looking back process as well as a key lesson around expectations and my writing that I’ve learned and how it’s shifted my writing practice this fall and moving forward into 2022.
    After the past few weeks of looking back at 2021, confirming my own personal findings with a little research, adjusting my own writing practice accordingly, and enjoying my writing while I make significant progress, I’ve discovered the value in having lower expectations for myself.
    25 min
  • Developing a Mindful Writing Practice with Author & Teacher Lissa M. Cowan
    Bringing mindfulness to your writing practice helps develop consistency in your practice, and it can also make you a more descriptive writer as you slow down and notice more. We dive into all of this more with today's guest, author Lissa M. Cown who writes in a variety of genres and teaches fiction and structural editing at the university level. She also has a super popular writing mediation course on the daily Ohm with thousands of students.
    36 min
  • On Writing Characters with Women's Fiction Author Elizabeth Sumner Wafler
    Welcome to a fun chat about writing, developing characters, and finding inspiration with women's fiction author Elizabeth Sumner Wafler. Like many of us, Elizabeth came to writing as a second career and has mined her own life for inspiration for both her plots and her characters.
    While our intent in this conversation was to focus on characters and character development, like many conversations with authors, we ended up touching on so many other areas of writing, like dialogue, critique partners, plotting and outlining.
    30 min

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Have you got a dream to write a book? Have you begun or did you get started only to write yourself directly into a deep dark plot hole with no way out? Uh oh - that’s no fun. This show helps you get…