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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've previously spoken about on another episode in Season 3, Unlikeable Characters. 

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Scarlett Marie is a true born creative, who has spent her whole life dabbling in the arts and craft, only to find her feet in the world of words whereby she has spent over fifteen years making stories come alive.

Her time and energy has been mainly spent on the series A Royal Life, of which she started drafting when she was fifteen. 

Here on the 'Diary of a Writer' she hopes to show people a peek behind the door of what it means to live as a full-time creative. 

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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 many outlines of one’s story, one can begin to wonder, 'Well, which outline is the best outline for the story?' 

Today's discussion will help you navigate changes in story outlines and one key element to pay attention to to help you figure out whether the changes you're making are for the better. 

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Scarlett Marie is a true born creative, who has spent her whole life dabbling in the arts and craft, only to find her feet in the world of words whereby she has spent over fifteen years making stories come alive.

Her time and energy has been mainly spent on the series A Royal Life, of which she started drafting when she was fifteen. 

Here on the 'Diary of a Writer' she hopes to show people a peek behind the door of what it means to live as a full-time creative. 

Visit bookishfeat.com for more details. 

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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. 

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Scarlett Marie is a true born creative, who has spent her whole life dabbling in the arts and craft, only to find her feet in the world of words whereby she has spent over fifteen years making stories come alive.

Her time and energy has been mainly spent on the series A Royal Life, of which she started drafting when she was fifteen. 

Here on the 'Diary of a Writer' she hopes to show people a peek behind the door of what it means to live as a full-time creative. 

Visit bookishfeat.com for more details. 

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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 pieces of fiction to enjoy and get attached to.

It doesn't help that unlikeable characters are running rampant in a lot of stories. We need these unlikeable characters - they help make our stories more interesting - but there is a way to do it right and keep the story engaging. Unfortunately, recently, I came across a TV show that ruined a beautiful premise it had created in an earlier season, simply because the writers forgot the most basic rules of writing when it comes to writing unlikeable characters. 

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Scarlett Marie is a true born creative, who has spent her whole life dabbling in the arts and craft, only to find her feet in the world of words whereby she has spent over fifteen years making stories come alive.

Her time and energy has been mainly spent on the series A Royal Life, of which she started drafting when she was fifteen. 

Here on the 'Diary of a Writer' she hopes to show people a peek behind the door of what it means to live as a full-time creative. 

Visit bookishfeat.com for more details. 

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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. 

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Scarlett Marie is a true born creative, who has spent her whole life dabbling in the arts and craft, only to find her feet in the world of words whereby she has spent over fifteen years making stories come alive.

Her time and energy has been mainly spent on the series A Royal Life, of which she started drafting when she was fifteen. 

Here on the 'Diary of a Writer' she hopes to show people a peek behind the door of what it means to live as a full-time creative. 

Visit bookishfeat.com for more details. 

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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 write. 

Why is it going to be so much easier to write? Because the tail end has a lot less to do with the characters back story. 

It's really tricky to integrate characters back stories without info dumps, so today we're discussing the importance of knowing a character's back story to avoid that and instead create a smoother reading experience for your readers. 

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Scarlett Marie is a true born creative, who has spent her whole life dabbling in the arts and craft, only to find her feet in the world of words whereby she has spent over fifteen years making stories come alive.

Her time and energy has been mainly spent on the series A Royal Life, of which she started drafting when she was fifteen. 

Here on the 'Diary of a Writer' she hopes to show people a peek behind the door of what it means to live as a full-time creative. 

Visit bookishfeat.com for more details. 

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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 up being something worth publishing. 

You can get your copy of The Boy Underneath the Fur here. 

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Scarlett Marie is a true born creative, who has spent her whole life dabbling in the arts and craft, only to find her feet in the world of words whereby she has spent over fifteen years making stories come alive.

Her time and energy has been mainly spent on the series A Royal Life, of which she started drafting when she was fifteen. 

Here on the 'Diary of a Writer' she hopes to show people a peek behind the door of what it means to live as a full-time creative. 

Visit bookishfeat.com for more details. 

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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 listen when you can - I get it, everyone is busy these days! 

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Scarlett Marie is a true born creative, who has spent her whole life dabbling in the arts and craft, only to find her feet in the world of words whereby she has spent over fifteen years making stories come alive.

Her time and energy has been mainly spent on the series A Royal Life, of which she started drafting when she was fifteen. 

Here on the 'Diary of a Writer' she hopes to show people a peek behind the door of what it means to live as a full-time creative. 

Visit bookishfeat.com for more details. 

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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 should be viewed as a partner - a partner that is there for you when you need it to be.

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Scarlett Marie is a true born creative, who has spent her whole life dabbling in the arts and craft, only to find her feet in the world of words whereby she has spent over fifteen years making stories come alive.

Her time and energy has been mainly spent on the series A Royal Life, of which she started drafting when she was fifteen. 

Here on the 'Diary of a Writer' she hopes to show people a peek behind the door of what it means to live as a full-time creative. 

Visit bookishfeat.com for more details. 

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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 too. 

On top of that, whilst we accept men watch pornography, we can’t seem to accept women want to indulge in it via a different medium.

This isn't a discussion about the crime of addiction, it's a discussion about a human desire that can become addictive, and how, as usual, it's only a certain part of the human population that gets privy to be a part of the conversation. 

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Scarlett Marie is a true born creative, who has spent her whole life dabbling in the arts and craft, only to find her feet in the world of words whereby she has spent over fifteen years making stories come alive.

Her time and energy has been mainly spent on the series A Royal Life, of which she started drafting when she was fifteen. 

Here on the 'Diary of a Writer' she hopes to show people a peek behind the door of what it means to live as a full-time creative. 

Visit bookishfeat.com for more details.