Pen2Plot Podcast

Dealing with anxiety? Afraid your story isn't worth telling? Never feel like you're good enough? US TOO! Here's how we've managed to redirect our anxious energy to work for us instead of against us.

In this episode, we chat all about...

📝Grounding techniques and our experiences with mental health

✨Journaling as therapy and morning pages

🎭How anxious thinking has impacted our work

💃🏻 Secrets on how we use our worst fears as motivation

✍️Ways you can use anxious energy to elevate your own writing projects!

⭐Join Our Writing Challenge!👇

"List your worst intrusive thoughts/fears and use them as story prompts. Write a story based on your favorite concept"

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✨F O L L O W U S✨

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🟢Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/pen2plotpod

🔵Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/pentoplotpodcast

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✨B O O K M E N T I O N S ✨

The Artists Way Workbook: https://amzn.to/3WTZgPv

✨S U B M I S S I O N O P P O R T U N I T I E S ✨

Able Muse: https://www.ablemuse.com/submit/

Librelit: https://www.librelit.com/submit

Blueline Magazine: http://bluelineadkmagazine.org/packag...

Flash Fiction: https://www.lvwonline.org/copy-of-fla...

Fellowships: https://underthevolcano.org/fellowships/

Oxford Flash Fiction: https://oxfordflashfictionprize.com/

✨ A B O U T ✨

Keena J. Herman and Chelsey Fawcett are a dynamic duo that has collaborated for over ten years on various film, theatre, and animation projects. Their work has reached both national and international audiences, garnering recognition for creativity and impact. Their goal is to connect with fellow storytellers, fostering a supportive community where shared stories and lessons can spark new ideas and encourage creativity.

Business inquiries: [email protected]

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From screen to stage! In this episode, we talk all about how we turned Zoom meetings into a hit theatre production 🎭

📝We discuss Chelsey’s scriptwriting process

✨How she tackles complex themes while staying true to the characters

🎭Reflect on how remote collaboration transformed our rehearsal process

💃🏻Discuss how our writer-actor dynamic brought the story to life

✍️And how this method can elevate your writing projects!

💙Watch HARAM at the Philly Fringe Festival 👉🏻https://phillyfringe.org/digital-haram/

🩷SUPPORT THE PEN2PLOT PODCAST: https://tinyurl.com/pen2plotpatreon

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✨F O L L O W U S✨

🔴Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/pen2plotpodcast

🟢Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/pen2plotpod

🔵Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/pentoplotpodcast

💗iHeart Radio: https://tinyurl.com/p2ppodcastiheart

🟠Audible: https://tinyurl.com/pen2plotaudible

⚫️Patreon: https://tinyurl.com/pen2plotpatreon

✨S U B M I S S I O N O P P O R T U N I T I E S ✨

Able Muse: https://www.ablemuse.com/submit/

Librelit: https://www.librelit.com/submit

Blueline Magazine: http://bluelineadkmagazine.org/packag...

Flash Fiction: https://www.lvwonline.org/copy-of-fla...

Fellowships: https://underthevolcano.org/fellowships/

Oxford Flash Fiction: https://oxfordflashfictionprize.com/

✨ A B O U T ✨

Keena J. Herman and Chelsey Fawcett are a dynamic duo that has collaborated for over ten years on various film, theatre, and animation projects. Their work has reached both national and international audiences, garnering recognition for creativity and impact. Their goal is to connect with fellow storytellers, fostering a supportive community where shared stories and lessons can spark new ideas and encourage creativity.

Business inquiries: [email protected]

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In this episode, we're sharing our favorite resources for maximizing creativity. We dive into essays from our writing heroes, discuss how to integrate their creative ideologies into our routines, and offer actionable takeaways to help you get started. Plus, stay tuned until the end for an exclusive writing challenge and a look at our latest collaborative works.

🩷SUPPORT THE PEN2PLOT PODCAST: https://tinyurl.com/pen2plotpatreon

🩷Watch HARAM at the Philly Fringe Festival 👉🏻https://phillyfringe.org/digital-haram/

✨S U B M I S S I O N O P P O R T U N I T I E S ✨

Librelit: https://www.librelit.com/submit

Blueline Magazine: http://bluelineadkmagazine.org/packag...

✨B O O K S M E N T I O N E D ✨

A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre: https://amzn.to/3XeIlZn

Creators on Creating: Awakening and Cultivating the Imaginative Mind (New Consciousness Reader): https://amzn.to/474YLH6

The Artists Way Workbook: https://amzn.to/3WTZgPv

The Artist's Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living: https://amzn.to/3WTZdDj

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✍🏻We write when inspiration strikes but what if the elusive muse never shows?🤔

In this episode, we discuss how we find emotional connectivity in our writing and the techniques we’ve discovered to help us get there no matter what.

😍We chat about what key factors get readers emotionally invested in a story

😉Debate whether or not you need to be “in the mood” to write meaningful work

🫢And reflect on the do’s and don’ts of incorporating real-life experiences into our writing

✔️PLUS, hang in until the end for some of our time-tested tips on how to reach your daily word count goals as well as a few updates on our latest collaborative works.

🩷SUPPORT THE PEN2PLOT PODCAST: https://tinyurl.com/pen2plotpatreon

✨F O L L O W ✨

🔴Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/pen2plotpodcast

⚫️Patreon: https://tinyurl.com/pen2plotpatreon

Business inquiries: [email protected]

✨S U B M I S S I O N O P P O R T U N I T I E S ✨

Able Muse: https://www.ablemuse.com/submit/

Librelit: https://www.librelit.com/submit

Blueline Magazine: http://bluelineadkmagazine.org/packag...

Flash Fiction: https://www.lvwonline.org/copy-of-flash-fiction-22-winners

Fellowships: https://underthevolcano.org/fellowships/

Oxford Flash Fiction: https://oxfordflashfictionprize.com/

✨ A B O U T ✨

Keena J. Herman and Chelsey Fawcett are a dynamic duo that has collaborated for over ten years on various film, theatre, and animation projects. Their work has reached both national and international audiences, garnering recognition for creativity and impact. Their goal is to connect with fellow storytellers, fostering a supportive community where shared stories and lessons can spark new ideas and encourage creativity.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we discuss perfectionism and the mind games we play to convince ourselves not to move on with our story. We chat all about our experience with analysis paralysis, how having an accountabilibuddies and joining communities saved our writing, how we identify the signs of a dead project and knowing when to move on.

❤️SUPPORT THE PEN2PLOT PODCAST: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=136636...

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✨S U B M I S S I O N O P P O R T U N I T I E S ✨

Flash Fiction: https://www.lvwonline.org/copy-of-fla...

Fellowships: https://underthevolcano.org/fellowships/

Oxford Flash Fiction: https://oxfordflashfictionprize.com/

✨F O L L O W ✨

🔴Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/pen2plotpodcast

⚫️Patreon: https://tinyurl.com/pen2plotpatreon

Business inquiries: [email protected]

✨ A B O U T ✨

Keena J. Herman and Chelsey Fawcett are a dynamic duo that has collaborated for over ten years on various film, theatre, and animation projects. Their work has reached both national and international audiences, garnering recognition for creativity and impact. Their goal is to connect with fellow storytellers, fostering a supportive community where shared stories and lessons can spark new ideas and encourage creativity.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What do we do when our writer dreams get crushed? How do we move forward without losing passion for the craft? In this episode, we flip the narrative and explore some of our biggest creative failures and how they became the stepping stones to our most meaningful successes. 💪

⭐Comment below and join the discussion! 👇🏻

🟢Do you write your stories beginning to end...or end to beginning?🤔

❤️SUPPORT THE PEN2PLOT PODCAST: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=136636...

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✨S U B M I S S I O N O P P O R T U N I T I E S ✨

Able Muse: https://www.ablemuse.com/submit/

Librelit: https://www.librelit.com/submit

Blueline Magazine: http://bluelineadkmagazine.org/packag...

✨ A B O U T ✨

Keena J. Herman and Chelsey Fawcett are a dynamic duo that has collaborated for over ten years on various film, theatre, and animation projects. Their work has reached both national and international audiences, garnering recognition for creativity and impact. Their goal is to connect with fellow storytellers, fostering a supportive community where shared stories and lessons can spark new ideas and encourage creativity.

Business inquiries: [email protected]

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome everyone to the Pen2Plot Podcast! We're super excited to have you here and join us on this creative journey.✍️

In this podcast, we help storytellers get inspired and avoid spending hours staring at a blank page. We achieve this through laughter, reflection, and creativity. 📝

Join us as we share our experiences navigating the magical, confusing, and often frustrating world of writing. We’ll also share our favorite creative tools, writing challenges, book and movie reviews, and interviews with industry professionals. 🤓

Our first episode launches this August 2024 (Exact date TBA) Check us out on any major podcast platform or join us on YouTube.

Looking forward to meeting you all and happy writing!😁

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