In this Friday the 13th special episode, Caitlin Liz Fisher geeks out about the horror genre with Libby Edwardson, one of the talented writers inside their writing mentorship community.

Get some epic movie recommendations and hear Caitlin and Libby's insights on how fast the genre is evolving, the current state of horror in film, the representation of women in the genre, and how to set better boundaries when it comes to consuming horror content. 

They also talk about Libby's creative process in drafting and revising her novel (a quiet horror novel set in the fictional Appalachian town of Jubilee, West Virginia), as well as the tedious process of querying and publishing. 

So, if you're a fan of the spooky and the macabre, or perhaps are in the process of writing your own horror novel, this one's especially for you!

You Will Learn:

Want to get one-on-one feedback on your writing like Libby?

Check out my Writing Incubator program where you can get personalized coaching, join a supportive community of writers, and get your work ready for publication!

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What’s it like inside the Working Title Incubator: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/episode/1MQysBYzuQ58SVXcd4wymK?si=412d7283c70c441c⁠

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In this episode, Caitlin Liz Fisher explores the wild world of social media in 2024 and why it feels more exhausting than ever. Remember when Facebook was just a college-only platform, free of ads, where you could poke friends and tend to virtual farms? Those simpler times feel like a bajillion years ago. Today’s social media landscape is a noisy, ad-filled space with shadow bans, algorithmic biases, and constant pressure to churn out content. It’s a tricky environment, full of frustrations—from navigating social media marketing to dealing with rage bait and AI-generated content.But it’s not all doom and gloom! Caitlin offers some tips on how to carve out a safe space online, especially for those who are neurodivergent and/or marginalized. Whether it’s mastering the block button, curating your feed to avoid toxic comparison, or just being your authentic self, let’s talk about reclaiming peace in the digital chaos!

What You Will Learn in This Episode: 

🌟 Discover All That Caitlin Liz Fisher Has to Offer! 🌟

🎁 FREE Copy Improv Workshop

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✨ Copy Improve 3-Month Intensivehttps://www.askfishfisher.com/copy-improv-3-month-intensive

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https://www.patreon.com/caitlinlizfisher

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Welcome to the Neurodivergent Creative Pod, where your creativity gets to sparkle without the stress! So, whether you’re looking to geek out, get inspired, or just hang out with fellow neurospicy folks, we’ve got a cozy corner just for you.

🎉 FREE Membership: Dive into our Facebook Community, Chaos Book Club, and Neurodivergent Writing Circle. It’s all about celebrating your passions and finding your tribe!

🚀 Go Premium for just $7/mo: Unlock our lively Discord, exclusive Small Biz Space, monthly Q&A calls, and a whole treasure trove of other goodies!

Check out the pod here → https://www.askfishfisher.com/pod 

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Hey Sunshine! In this episode of The NeuroDivergent Creative Podcast, Caitlin Liz Fisher dives into the world of developmental editing—what it is, why it’s essential, and how it can transform your writing. So, if you’re working on a book or even just thinking about starting one, this is the episode for you! Caitlin explains why your first draft is sacred and how a developmental editor can help you shape it into something truly magical. Get ready to discover the power of collaboration in the writing process and how it can elevate your story to the next level!

You Will Learn:

Resources You Should Check Out:

🌟 Discover All That Caitlin Liz Fisher Has to Offer! 🌟

Ready to transform your creative journey and dive into a world of tailored support? Caitlin Liz Fisher offers a range of services designed to empower neurodivergent creatives like you. Whether you’re looking to refine your copywriting skills, find your unique creative voice, or get personalized coaching, Caitlin’s got you covered!

Come here and take your pick 👉 https://www.askfishfisher.com/links

Your story deserves to be written, messy drafts and all! Join me in turning your authorly dreams into reality with the Working Title Writing Incubator. Dive into the world of storytelling and make your book inevitable. Your story belongs in the world—let's make it happen, one chapter at a time!

👇 Join us in the Working Title Writing Incubatorhttps://www.caitlinlizfisher.com/working-title

JOIN THE POD!! 🐳

Welcome to the Neurodivergent Creative Pod, where your creativity gets to sparkle without the stress! So, whether you’re looking to geek out, get inspired, or just hang out with fellow neurospicy folks, we’ve got a cozy corner just for you.

🎉 FREE Membership: Dive into our Facebook Community, Chaos Book Club, and Neurodivergent Writing Circle. It’s all about celebrating your passions and finding your tribe!

🚀 Go Premium for just $7/mo: Unlock our lively Discord, exclusive Small Biz Space, monthly Q&A calls, and a whole treasure trove of other goodies!

Check out the pod here → https://www.askfishfisher.com/pod 

If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with your friends! See you again next week~

Ever tried baking without eggs? For starters, it's not as simple as just swapping in applesauce! In this episode, Caitlin draws parallels between neurodivergent needs and baking. Just like how different recipes require different egg substitutes—sometimes a binding agent, other times a leavening agent—accommodations for executive function, focus, and sensory issues aren’t one-size-fits-all.

Caitlin also takes us behind the scenes of their recent website overhaul, showcasing how they’re embracing their multi-passionate, AuDHD brain by making their services clearer and more accessible. Whether you're here for another creative analogy or looking for practical tips on customizing your neurodivergent accommodations, this episode is all about experimenting, trusting the process, and discovering what truly works for your unique mind.

So tune in and let’s talk about what creative accommodations might look like for you!

You Will Learn:

If you liked this episode, check these out next: 

🌟 Discover All That Caitlin Liz Fisher Has to Offer! 🌟

Ready to transform your creative journey and dive into a world of tailored support? Caitlin Liz Fisher offers a range of services designed to empower neurodivergent creatives like you. Whether you’re looking to refine your copywriting skills, find your unique creative voice, or get personalized coaching, Caitlin’s got you covered!

Come here and take your pick 👉 https://www.askfishfisher.com/links

Your story deserves to be written, messy drafts and all! Join me in turning your authorly dreams into reality with the Working Title Writing Incubator. Dive into the world of storytelling and make your book inevitable. Your story belongs in the world—let's make it happen, one chapter at a time!

👇 Join us in the Working Title Writing Incubator

https://www.caitlinlizfisher.com/working-title

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If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with your friends! Embrace your creative intuition and give yourself permission to follow those intuitive nudges without the pressure of a set timeline.

In this episode of The Neurodivergent Creative Podcast, Caitlin Liz Fisher explores the emotional hurdles and internalized stories that can keep creatives from reconnecting with their writing or other hobbies after a long break.

Inspired by a question from Threads, Caitlin digs into the common feelings of shame and self-doubt that arise, offering practical steps and thought exercises to help listeners navigate and overcome these barriers.

So, find a comfy spot and tune in, friend. This is your reminder that it’s never ever too late to reconnect with your inner writer (or artist, or musician, or whatever makes your heart feel full)!

You Will Learn:

- Discover the root causes of your hesitation to return to writing or any creative activity after a long break

- How to identify and challenge the stories you tell yourself about your creative abilities and past experiences

- How to sit with and process difficult emotions like shame and anger

- Exploring new mindsets that will encourage you to be creative again

If you liked this episode, check these out next: 

Sign up to Caitlin’s epic creative writing quests:

Creating while neurodivergent or chronically ill brings unique challenges to the creative process. Following standard advice on consistency, word counts, and industry rules often doesn't work for us, leading to frustration and self-judgment.

Your creative spark is special and uniquely yours. Inside the Sacred First Draft Society, we discard conventional writing rules. The goal is to connect with you and your story, helping you discover a process that fits your unique needs.

🌈 Join Us in the Sacred First Draft Society:

https://www.askfishfisher.com/sacred

Your story deserves to be written, messy drafts and all! Join me in turning your authorly dreams into reality with the Working Title Writing Incubator. Dive into the world of storytelling and make your book inevitable. Your story belongs in the world—let's make it happen, one chapter at a time!

✨ Join us in the Working Title Writing Incubator:

https://www.caitlinlizfisher.com/working-title

More cool resources we think you’ll love:

🌞 Join the Neurodivergent Creative community to connect with other creative, queer, and neurodivergent individuals.

Share your favorite creative pursuits with us, talk about your own messy first draft, or infodump about your latest artsy hyperfixations – we’d love to meet you!🌻

https://www.askfishfisher.com/pod

If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with your friends! Embrace your creative intuition and give yourself permission to follow those intuitive nudges without the pressure of a set timeline.

Is your gut might tell you to pick up a new art supply or try a new hobby, even if you don't have a plan for it. And guess what? It’s not a bad idea to trust your gut, especially when it involves your creative pursuits.

In this episode, Caitlin will share some personal stories about times when they bought things without knowing exactly how they’d use them, but trusting their intuition led to some pretty amazing projects. They’ll talk about how creativity doesn’t always need a plan and why giving yourself the freedom to explore new things at your own pace is important.

So, if you’ve ever felt guilty about not using your art supplies right away or if you’ve been told you should only keep things you use often, this one’s for you! You Will Learn:

If you liked this episode, check these out next: 

Sign up to Caitlin’s epic creative writing quests:

Creating while neurodivergent or chronically ill brings unique challenges to the creative process. Following standard advice on consistency, word counts, and industry rules often doesn't work for us, leading to frustration and self-judgment.

Your creative spark is special and uniquely yours. Inside the Sacred First Draft Society, we discard conventional writing rules. The goal is to connect with you and your story, helping you discover a process that fits your unique needs.

🌈  Join Us in the Sacred First Draft Society:

https://www.askfishfisher.com/sacred

Your story deserves to be written, messy drafts and all! Join me in turning your authorly dreams into reality with the Working Title Writing Incubator. Dive into the world of storytelling and make your book inevitable. Your story belongs in the world—let's make it happen, one chapter at a time!

✨ Join us in the Working Title Writing Incubator:https://www.caitlinlizfisher.com/working-title

More cool resources we think you’ll love:
🌞 Join the Neurodivergent Creative community to connect with other creative, queer, and neurodivergent individuals. 

Share your favorite creative pursuits with us, talk about your own messy first draft, or infodump about your latest artsy hyperfixations – we’d love to meet you!🌻

https://www.askfishfisher.com/pod

If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with your friends! Embrace your creative intuition and give yourself permission to follow those intuitive nudges without the pressure of a set timeline.

Get ready for laughs, lightbulb moments, and a whole lot of love for the #authorlife! Caitlin Liz Fisher and their epic writing coach, Isabel Sterling, talk about what truly counts as writing (we’re not just talking about words on a page), mastering the art of managing your energy, and why prioritizing fun in your writing process can make your book and life so much better.

PS - They’re hosting a online community for writers, so you really don’t want miss out on this opportunity to join their FREE no-hustle writing workshop (link below)!

Meet The Guest:

Isabel Sterling is a master coach and author of sapphic YA fantasy novels, including These Witches Don’t Burn, This Coven Won’t Break, and The Coldest Touch. She lives with her spouse and fur-babies in Central New York, where the winters are frigid, the summers are too hot, and autumn is perfect.

You Will Learn:

- The importance of deciding ahead of time what constitutes a successful writing day based on personal capacity

- Practical Strategies for Consistent Writing

- Why we need to commit to believing that what is doable is good enough

- How to deal with resistance and procrastination

- Every writer brings a unique perspective, even if similar topics have been explored by others

Links and resources mentioned in this episode:

Break free from procrastination and ditch the hustle culture! Sign up and join Caitlin Liz Fisher and Isabel Sterling on Saturday, August 3, 2024, at 6:30 AM PST for an energizing workshop: How to Write Consistently without Hustle!

🦄 Register Today:

https://www.isabelsterling.com/no-hustle

📚 THE GASLIGHTING OF THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION

https://www.caitlinlizfisher.com/books

🔊 The Author Burnout Cure Podcast: EP 124 Why I Love My Google Calendar

https://www.isabelsterling.com/podcasts/the-author-burnout-cure/episodes/2148766585

🔊 The Neurodivergent Creative Podcast: EP 137 Body VS Spirit: Redefining Neurodivergent Self-Care

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5yanvYGKE7KvLqhuqoguhm?si=8e8dddc436844dc0

Isabel Sterling on the Internet:

🎁 FREE Thing: Get the Burnout-Free Writing Worksheet!

https://www.isabelsterling.com/resources

You can also connect with them on Instagram @isa_sterling!

Super epic resources to check out next:

✨ Join us in the Working Title Writing Incubator:

https://www.caitlinlizfisher.com/working-title

✨ What’s it like inside the Working Title Incubator: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1MQysBYzuQ58SVXcd4wymK?si=412d7283c70c441c

Join our little neurodivergent creative club!

🌞 Join the Neurodivergent Creative community to connect with other creative, queer, and neurodivergent individuals. Share your stories, support each other, and let’s embrace the chaos together!

https://www.askfishfisher.com/pod

Get ready for some Meat Suit Maintenance and Self-Care for the Soul 101! In this episode, Caitlin Liz Fisher shares fun, easy tips to slowly let go of that self-care perfectionism you might be lugging around.

Learn more about how taking care of your body (aka Meat Suit!) is just the start; and true self-care means embracing, investing, and practicing anything that fills your heart and soul with glee and satisfaction.

Come join us and let's redefine self-care together!

You Will Learn:

- Why you need to focus on self-care that works for you

- The concept of "meat suit maintenance" and essential body care tasks

- The importance of nurturing your spiritual self with joyful activities

- Tips for balancing physical and mental self-care

- How to be kind to yourself and avoid perfectionism in self-care

Episodes that you’d love:

Links mentioned in this episode:

Sign up to Caitlin’s epic creative writing quests:

🔑 Unlock the transformative power of your imagination with our Summer Camp: Speculative Fiction for Trauma Healing!

https://www.askfishfisher.com/working-title-summer-camp

Your story deserves to be written, messy drafts and all! Join me in turning your authorly dreams into reality with the Working Title Writing Incubator. Dive into the world of storytelling and make your book inevitable. Your story belongs in the world—let's make it happen, one chapter at a time!

✨ Join us in the Working Title Writing Incubator:

https://www.caitlinlizfisher.com/working-title

More cool resources we think you’ll love:

🌞 Join the Neurodivergent Creative community to connect with other creative, queer, and neurodivergent individuals.

Share your favorite creative pursuits with us, talk about your own messy first draft, or infodump about your latest artsy hyperfixations – we’d love to meet you!🌻

https://www.askfishfisher.com/pod

Let us know your thoughts on this episode! If you're listening to the audio-only version, send a DM on Instagram. If you're watching on YouTube, go ahead and leave a comment below (just remember to be respectful, please).

Your feedback helps us continue bringing valuable content to the podcast. See you next week!

We’re primed at a young age to believe that we need to be good at something to do something, but that’s not how building skill mastery works, friend! There’s a huge difference between not having the skills to do something and not having the confidence to do it.

So, it really doesn’t matter if you’re taking up writing, painting, cooking, or making music, Caitlin emphasizes that nobody gets it perfect on the first try, and that's 100% okay! What’s important is how your art makes you feel.

Inspired by a conversation with their partner and fellow writer in their writing incubator program, join us as Caitlin explores the importance of practice, playfulness, and the willingness to make mistakes in any creative pursuit.

You Will Learn:

- The difference between lacking skill vs lacking confidence

- The importance of practice and willingness to make mistakes

- The concept of quantity vs quality over time

- Challenges faced by disabled and neurodivergent individuals in creative pursuits

- The value of learning from others and being part of a supportive community

Episodes that you’d love:

Super epic resources to check out next:

🔑 Unlock the transformative power of your imagination with our Summer Camp: Speculative Fiction for Trauma Healing!

https://www.askfishfisher.com/working-title-summer-camp

Your story deserves to be written, messy drafts and all! Join me in turning your authorly dreams into reality with the Working Title Writing Incubator. Dive into the world of storytelling and make your book inevitable. Your story belongs in the world—let's make it happen, one chapter at a time!

✨ Join us in the Working Title Writing Incubator:

https://www.caitlinlizfisher.com/working-title

✨ What’s it like inside the Working Title Incubator:

More cool resources we think you’ll love:

🌞 Join the Neurodivergent Creative community to connect with other creative, queer, and neurodivergent individuals.

Share your favorite creative pursuits with us, talk about your own messy first draft, or infodump about your latest artsy hyperfixations – we’d love to meet you!🌻

If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to The Neurodivergent Creative Podcast on your favorite podcast platform and leave us a review. Your feedback helps us reach more listeners and create content that rocks!

Do you ALWAYS need to be doing something productive to justify your existence on this earth? Does taking a break make you feel like you’ve committed an atrocious crime? Yeah, about that… consider this an intervention!

In our busy world, there's a lot of pressure to always be productive. We've started saying things like "rest is productive" because we know we need rest to be more efficient. But does rest always have to be about giving yourself that wee bit of breathing room to make yourself more productive later? OR, hear us out, can rest just be... REST? 🥺

Join us and let’s have a conversation about the pressures society puts on us to always be busy, internalizing our worth based on our output, and how we can push back against that. Plus, since July is Disability Pride Month, we'll discuss how rest and productivity relate to disability and the extra challenges faced by disabled individuals.

You Will Learn:

- Why rest is essential for both mental and physical health

- How to balance work, life, play, and rest for overall well-being

- The societal pressures around constant productivity and how to resist them

- The unique challenges faced by disabled individuals in the workplace

- The importance of valuing people for who they are, not just what they do

Episode Wisdom Nuggies:

💬 “Let's not shame people for rest and not shame ourselves for rest because yes, rest is productive, but rest is not obligated to be productive. Rest is obligated to be rest.” - Caitlin Liz Fisher

💬 “Every single human person has value and worth that is beyond what their labor can provide.” - Caitlin Liz Fisher

💬 “We live in a system that expects our labor and that continues to extract more and more and more of our labor without any return. And meanwhile, we are all getting fed propaganda about who deserves what, and who's at fault for the hardships in your particular life.” - Caitlin Liz Fisher

Episodes that you’d love:

Super epic resources to check out next:

🔑 Unlock the transformative power of your imagination with our Summer Camp: Speculative Fiction for Trauma Healing!

✨ Join us in the Working Title Writing Incubator:

https://www.caitlinlizfisher.com/working-title

🌞 Join the Neurodivergent Creative community to connect with other creative, queer, and neurodivergent individuals. Share your stories, support each other, and let’s embrace the chaos together!

https://www.askfishfisher.com/pod

https://www.caitlinlizfisher.com/books

Think about how you rest. Share your thoughts in the comments or on social media using the hashtag #NeurodivergentCreativeRest.

Hang out with us on Facebook in the Neurodivergent Creative Pod!

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