The Write Mindset with Racquel Henry

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The Write Mindset with Racquel Henry episodes

October 04, 2022Ep. 31: When the Publishing World Stings
Racquel is back with another solo episode. In this episode, Racquel gets very transparent about comparisonitis and discusses three things she does to reevaluate her mindset. Publishing is going to sting sometimes, but don't let that sting keep you down!

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Audio edited by Alli Nesbit.
Music: Wooden Smile by Ziv Moran
18 min
September 27, 2022Ep. 30: Write State of Mind with Harper Glenn
We’re back with another one of our segments, Write State of Mind, where we interview authors about mindset, their processes, and their journey. This week we have the author Harper Glenn! In this episode we discussed:
Harper’s background in screenwriting

Landing an agent

Starting over with a second agent

The journey of selling a book

Community as a component to mindset

How to cultivate fierce confidence in your work

How Harper takes care of their mind outside of writing

Meditation

Quieting the monsters
Harper Glenn is an author of fiction. In addition to creating literary works that unveil the psychological, sociological, and economic disparities in poverty-stricken regions around the world, they love vintage books, anatomy, and old cemeteries. Though born and raised in Georgia, Harper resides in Washington State.
Harper hangs out on Instagram, Twitter, and their website.
Find Harper’s novel, Monarch Rising, in our affiliate Bookshop or via their website.

Mentioned in this episode:
Vertical video creation for authors
Clubhouse

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The Write Gym, our accountability and group coaching program.
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Find out more about Racquel Henry and her books: www.racquelhenry.com

Audio edited by Alli Nesbit.
Music: Wooden Smile by Ziv Moran
47 min
September 09, 2022Ep. 29: Write State of Mind with Denise N. Wheatley
We’re back with another one of our segments, Write State of Mind, where we interview authors about mindset, their processes, and their journey. This week we have the author Denise N. Wheatley! In this episode we discussed:
Denise’s background with books

Rejections from literary agents

Putting in the work and staying consistent

Ghostwriting

Self-doubt

The value of a writing community

Cleansing negative people to gain a healthy mindset

Keeping yourself lit

Criticism as leverage

Taking care of both body and mind in order to write all the things

The guilt that comes with being a writer

Denise N. Wheatley is a lover of happily-ever-afters and the art of storytelling. Her first novel, I Wish I Never Met You, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2004. She has since written (and ghostwritten) over twenty novels and novellas, including suspense, contemporary, paranormal, and steamy romance. Denise currently writes for Harlequin Intrigue, with her fifth book hitting shelves later this year and four more releasing in the coming months. A few of those suspense titles include Cold Case—True Crime, Bayou Christmas Disappearance, and The Heart-Shaped Murders. Her Tule Publishing novel, Christmas in Full Bloom, has been optioned for film.
Denise earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago, the city where she was born and raised. When she isn’t sitting behind her computer, you can find her in a movie theater, on a tennis court, watching true crime television, or chatting on social media.

Denise hangs out on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and her website.
Find Denise’s novels in our affiliate Bookshop or via her website.

Mentioned in this episode:
From our affiliate account with Bookshop.org:
The Writer’s Toolkit by Elizabeth Lyons (Sadly we couldn’t find a link!)
Denise’s class with WA: Writing Riveting Romantic Suspense (Recording available)

Find out more about Writer's Atelier:
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The Write Gym, our accountability and group coaching program.
Find Writer's Atelier on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

Find out more about Racquel Henry and her books: www.racquelhenry.com

Audio edited by Alli Nesbit.
Music: Wooden Smile by Ziv Moran
1 hr 6 min
September 06, 2022Ep. 28: Write State of Mind with Kathleen Glasgow
We’re back with another one of our segments, Write State of Mind, where we interview authors about mindset, their processes, and their journey. This week we have the NYT Bestselling Author Kathleen Glasgow! In this episode we discussed:
How Kathleen got started writing

Her journey to getting an agent

Parting ways with an agent and what comes next

The 9-year process of writing her debut

Pantsing novels

Listening to the characters to tell the right story

Reading reviews while writing your second book

Understanding your voice as a writer and staying true to it

How writing other things can be good for your mindset

Kathleen’s message to older writers
About the author:
Kathleen Glasgow is the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces, You'd Be Home Now, How to Make Friends with the Dark, and The Agathas (with Liz Lawson). Her books have been published in more than 24 countries.

Kathleen hangs out on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and her website.
Find Kathleen’s novels in our affiliate Bookshop or via her website.

Mentioned in this episode:
Racquel in Conversation with Kathleen Glasgow and Jenny Torres Sanchez (Writer’s Atelier + Functionally Literate)

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The Write Gym, our accountability and group coaching program.
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Find out more about Racquel Henry and her books: www.racquelhenry.com

Audio edited by Alli Nesbit.
Music: Wooden Smile by Ziv Moran
1 hr
August 25, 2022Ep. 27: Write State of Mind with Ronni Davis
We’re back with another one of our segments, Write State of Mind, where we interview authors about mindset, their processes, and their journey. This week we have the author Ronni Davis! In this episode we discussed:
When the writing seed was planted

The long road to publication

The desire to write FT

The process of being on submission

How Ronni dealt with rejection

What she did when it hurt to write

Handling criticism/reviews

When to step back from publishing

Writing during a global pandemic

Getting in your own way

Writer’s guilt
Ronni Davis lives in Chicago with her husband Adam and her son Aidan. By day she copy edits everything from TV commercials to billboards, and by night she writes contemporary teen novels about brown girls falling in love.
Her debut novel, WHEN THE STARS LEAD TO YOU, is available now from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, and the anthology YOU TOO?, in which she is a contributor, is available now from Inkyard Press. Her next novel, THIS NIGHT IS OURS, will be published Summer 2023 by Little, Brown Books/Poppy.
Ronni hangs out on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and her website. You can also keep up with Ronni and all her latest news via her newsletter.

Find Ronni’s novels in our affiliate Bookshop or via her website.

Mentioned in this episode:
From our affiliate account with Bookshop.org:
The Romance Writers Handbook (Sadly we couldn’t find it on Bookshop)
When the Stars Lead to You Giveaway! (Open until 8/31/22!)

Find out more about Writer's Atelier:
www.writersatelier.com
The Write Gym, our accountability and group coaching program.

Find Writer's Atelier on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
Find out more about Racquel Henry: www.racquelhenry.com.

Audio edited by Alli Nesbit.
Music: Wooden Smile by Ziv Moran
1 hr 8 min
August 16, 2022Ep. 26: Write State of Mind with Lauren Francis-Sharma
We’re back with another one of our segments, Write State of Mind, where we interview authors about mindset, their processes, and their journey. This week we have Author, Lauren Francis-Sharma! In this episode we discussed:
Changing paths

Getting back up after rejection

Self-rejecting

Lone Writing

Taking chances and finding success

Navigating publishing as a Black writer

Writing the second book

Trusting the timing for each writing project

Writing during a global pandemic

Therapy as an essential tool for writers

Stealing time to write

About Lauren Francis-Sharma:
Lauren, a child of Trinidadian immigrants, has written about the Caribbean in both her best-selling novels, ’Til the Well Runs Dry and Book of the Little Axe. Lauren’s most recent writings can be found in The Lily, Electric Literature, Barrelhouse, Salon, as well as Marita Golden’s anthology, Us Against Alzheimer’s: Stories of Family Love and Faith.
Lauren holds a degree in English Literature with a minor in African-American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. Lauren, the Assistant Director of Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College, is a book reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle, a MacDowell Fellow, and the former owner of D.C. Writers Room.
Lauren lives in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. with her husband and two children and she is always working on another book.

Lauren hangs out on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and her website.
Find Lauren’s novels in our affiliate Bookshop or via her website.

Mentioned in this episode:
From our affiliate account with Bookshop.org:
‘Til the Well Runs Dry by Lauren Francis-Sharma
Book of the Little Axe by Lauren Francis-Sharma

Find out more about Writer's Atelier:
www.writersatelier.com
The Write Gym, our accountability and group coaching program for writers.
Find Writer's Atelier on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

Find out more about Racquel Henry and her books: www.racquelhenry.com

Audio edited by Ali Nesbit.
Music: Wooden Smile by Ziv Moran
55 min
August 11, 2022 Ep. 25: Writing Life Lessons from Breast Cancer
We’re baaaaack! After a much needed hiatus for health reasons, Racquel shares why she’s been gone and what her journey to a healthy self has taught her about writing.
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Audio edited by Alli Nesbit. Find out more about Alli at:
Music: Wooden Smile by Ziv Moran
20 min
September 19, 2021Ep. 24: Write State of Mind with Nancy Naigle
We’re back with another one of our segments, Write State of Mind, where we interview authors about mindset, their processes, and their journey. This week we have USA Today Bestselling Author, Nancy Naigle! In this episode we discussed:
How mountain views inspire Nancy’s writing;

Nancy’s publishing journey (she had quite a few books before landing an agent);

When publishing doesn’t go as planned;

The importance of a relentless belief in your dreams;

How to respond when people think your dreams are “farfetched”;

Keeping your special sauce and staying true to you when receiving criticism;

Rethinking reviews;

Trusting shifts in your career;

Fear even when you have a successful career;

Balancing projects in various stages;

Writing for Hallmark.
USA Today bestselling author Nancy Naigle whips up small-town love stories with a dash of suspense and a whole lot of heart. She began her contemporary romance series, Adams Grove, while juggling a successful career as an SVP for Bank of America and life on a seventy-six-acre goat farm. Now enjoying an early retirement from the financial industry, she devotes her time to writing, antiquing, cooking, trail riding on her Palomino, and the occasional spa day with friends.
Nancy writes romance and women's fiction for Montlake Romance and St. Martin's Press and enjoys the diversity of adding mysteries to her list of accomplishments through Crossroads Publishing House. She's also working on several projects with Hallmark. Watch for Nancy's novels, Christmas Joy, Christmas in Evergreen and Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa on Hallmark Channel, and Hope at Christmas, on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. New in 2020, The Secret Ingredient made its Hallmark Channel debut, and stay tuned for news about the movie based on Sand Dollar Cove.
Nancy hangs out on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and her website. Keep up with Nancy and all her latest news via her newsletter.
Find Nancy’s novels in our affiliate Bookshop or via her website.

Mentioned in this episode:
The Romance Writers Handbook (Sadly we couldn’t find it on Bookshop)

Find out more about Writer's Atelier:
www.writersatelier.com
www.patreon.com/WritersAtelier
Find Writer's Atelier on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

Find out more about Racquel Henry: www.racquelhenry.com

Audio edited by Aly Grauer. Find out more about Aly at: https://dreamstobecome.com/.
Music: Wooden Smile by Ziv Moran
1 hr 6 min
September 12, 2021 Ep. 23: Write State of Mind with Celeste Mohammed
We’re back with another one of our segments, Write State of Mind, where we interview authors about mindset, their processes, and their journey. This week we have the author of Pleasantview, Celeste Mohammed! In this episode we discussed:
Celeste’s transition from lawyer to storyteller (officially);
Trusting your gut when it comes to your stories;
Believing in yourself;
Handling negativity/those who say you can’t;
Managing expectations of publishing;
Writing through difficult times/the pandemic;
How Pilates boosts creativity for Celeste;
The process of writing;
Being a writer vs. an author vs. a storyteller;
Knowing your worth.
Celeste Mohammed is a lawyer-turned-writer. Her debut novel-in-stories, Pleasantview, was released in the USA in Spring 2021 and in the UK in Fall 2021. Celeste holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the recipient of a 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She was also awarded the 2019 Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction, and the 2017 John D Gardner Memorial Prize for Fiction. Celeste lives in Trinidad and Tobago with her family.
Celeste hangs out on Instagram, Facebook, and her website.
Find Celeste’s novel on our affiliate Bookshop or via her website.
Find out more about Writer's Atelier:
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www.patreon.com/WritersAtelier
Find Writer's Atelier on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
Find out more about Racquel Henry: www.racquelhenry.com
Audio edited by Aly Grauer. Find out more about Aly at: https://dreamstobecome.com/.
Music: Wooden Smile by Ziv Moran
51 min
August 29, 2021Ep. 22: Vibrational Frequency for Writers
Racquel is back with another solo episode. In this episode, she discusses what it means to be in a low vibrational frequency, how it relates to mindset, and Racquel offers six tips on how writers can get themselves out of such a state.
Check out the transcribed version on the WA blog here.
In this episode Racquel discussed:
Defining vibrational frequency

Things that can make you in a low vibrational frequency

Breaking up with a book

Racquel’s favorite thing to raise her vibe

+6 tips on how writers can get out of being in a “low vibe”

Mentioned in this episode:
From our affiliate account with Bookshop.org:
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Write Gym Accountability and Group Coaching Program by Writer’s Atelier

Find out more about Writer's Atelier:
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www.patreon.com/WritersAtelier
Find Writer's Atelier on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

Find out more about Racquel Henry: www.racquelhenry.com.

Audio edited by Aly Grauer. Find out more about Aly at: https://dreamstobecome.com/.

Music: Wooden Smile by Ziv Moran
27 min

About The Write Mindset with Racquel Henry

From the publisher's feed

The Write Mindset Podcast is produced by Writer's Atelier and hosted by Racquel Henry. This podcast is designed to teach and remind writers about the importance of mindset. A mastery of craft is essential, but a writer's mind is the most powerful tool they have. You can't have mastery of craft without your brain. The mind is where everything begins. This podcast will help writers strengthen their mindsets to increase long-term writing success.

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