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Welcome to Writing Apothecary and the next interview as we chat about the writing process.

Today's chat is with a return guest, Sarah L Richhelm, who appeared on our Plot interview. It was great to have her back and chat about her process and how she liked editing...

Official Bio:
Sarah is a serial cookie-in-tea dunker and Spotify playlist curator and adores writing slow-burn, high-stakes fantasy romance you can giggle kick over.

She graduated from the University of Queensland with a degree in Communications and—when she’s not travelling—resides in Brisbane, Australia with her partner, a stack of TBR books she promises she’ll read someday, and a growing array of indoor house plants. They’re still alive. She thinks.

Website: www.authorsarahlrichhelm.com
Social media links: https://www.instagram.com/sarahlrichhelm/

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Welcome to Writing Apothecary and the next interview as we chat about the writing process.

Today's chat is with fellow creative entrepreneur Monique Kostelec. We chat about her process and how she loves almost every part of the process.

Official Bio:
At 18, Monique was adamant that she would be the next Amal Clooney. As it turned out, she was more suited for the path of George. Monique is a writer, screenwriter, actress & creative entrepreneur who runs The Novel Writing Project - a writing business created to help writers have the audacity to believe in their writing dreams, write their novels, and actually enjoy the journey along the way. 

Website: https://payhip.com/thenovelwritingproject
Social media links: https://www.instagram.com/monique_kostelac/ 

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Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary Podcast - and a side quest if you must - about Writing Process and the way that every author does it differently. I can't wait for you to dig into this. The same bite sized episodic format is back. 

To kick off the first episode you get to see a BTS all about my own writing process. I've broken down the questions that I ask my guests and give you an insight about how I write and how my madness leads to my novels in their various forms. Touching on how I plot, how I edit, what works for me and how I get through my process. 

If you would love to be apart of this side quest send me an email - [email protected] and put Writing Process Podcast Guest in the title

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Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary and to our interview for the topic. Caroline and I dive deep into the all things fight scenes and how to better your writing of them.  

In today's chat here are some of the things we covered:

• What defines a fighting scene?
• The kinds of fighting scenes.
• The language of fighting scenes.
• Caroline's take on all things fighting scenes. 

About Caroline:
Caroline Logan is a writer of Young Adult Fantasy. She is currently working on her Scottish fantasy series: The Four Treasures. The Stone of Destiny, The Cauldron of Life and The Sword of Light are out now, with the final book - The Spear of Life out now.

Caroline is a high school biology teacher who lives in the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland, with her husband and dogs, Ranger and Scout. Before moving there, she lived and worked in Spain, Tenerife, Sri Lanka and other places in Scotland. She graduated from The University of Glasgow with a bachelor’s degree in Marine and Freshwater Biology. In her spare time she tries to swim, ski and paddleboard, though she is happiest with a good book and a cup of tea.

You can find her here: Website, Twitter, Instagram
You can buy her books from here: Amazon, Cranachan Publishing

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Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary and our next lesson on Fight scenes. We're looking at the emotional battlefield and how it can affect your character. 

We're covering:

• Depths of Fighting Scenes
• What is needed from the scenes
• What it takes to make the battlefield work.

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Faded Fragments out now! Buy a copy on Amazon https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CK3K5YLN or a signed copy (if you're an Aus or NZ resident) https://dreamingfullyawake.com/books/. This is novel in The Nexus Series. 

References:
Angela Knight - How to Write Fight Scenes

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Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary and our next lesson on Fight scenes. We're looking at the emotional battlefield and how it can affect your character. 

We're covering:

• Character motives
• Going back to basics
• Internal Conflict
• External Conflict
• Emotional triggers

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Faded Fragments out Septmber 29th. Mandi's first debut novel in The Nexus Series. 

References:
Angela Knight - How to Write Fight Scenes

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Welcome back to a episode and a new topic. The next two months we're exploring Fight Scenes and we have a great guest to top it all off. 

Fight scenes have always been a challenge for a lot of people, myself included, and we're going to explore two side of fight scenes:

• Emotional Fight Scenes
• Action Fight Scenes

I'm so excited to get into the topics and explore what it looks like when we dive deeper into it. The guest we have is a new author and I can't wait for you to hear the chat I've had the pleasure of having.

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Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary and to our interview for the topic. Viv and I dive deep into creativity with an amazing chat to get you into the mood to sit your arse down and create. 

In today's chat here are some of the things we covered:

• Creativity 
• Human Design
• Supporting yourself
• Morning pages

About Viv:
In this current season, Viv Kruckow’s soul purpose is following her joy and supporting humans to explore their creative essence and dance with their desires ~ because we all deserve ease, abundance and joy. This takes shape as mentoring creatives through 1:1 sessions, group containers, self-paced courses and writing.

Viv is known for her warmth and gift of making those around her feel at ease. She takes her job very seriously (hello, Capricorn Sun) but approaches teaching and guiding with intuitive, gentle and nurturing energy. Viv prides herself on cultivating a safe space for creatives to be seen, heard and expand, and sits in deep gratitude that she gets to call this work.

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Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary and our last lesson before our amazing chat with our great guest. 

I’m so excited to talk about Creativity and I’m going to preface this by saying that the best information that you can find is actually a Wikipedia page on Creativity, I’ll link it in the show notes because it’s so good. And I know, I know it’s a wiki page but one of my university lecturers swore that it was and I’m taking his word on it. I’m also going to try and keep today’s episode a little light but there is a lot to cover, grab yourself a beverage if you can. 

Key points:

• What Creativity is.
• Theories behind Creativity
• Models of Creativity
• Key research found here: Creativity Wiki
• Writing Process soft launch

This wraps up our theory lessons on Creativity and The Muse. I can't wait for our next interview. You guys are going to love our chat. 

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Books referenced:
Big Magic by Liz Gilbert
Creative Calling by Chase Jarvis
The War of Art - Steven Pressfield

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Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary and to a new lesson. Today we're looking at the history of the muse. And it was so much fun to go through and find what information I could about them. 

The Muses are inspirational goddess of literature, science and art. The 9 muses are:

• Calliope was the Muse who represented epic poetry. Her implement was the writing tablet.
• Clio was the Muse who had to do with history and she was always associated with holding a scroll.
• Euterpe was the Muse of lyrical poetry and music, and is always shown with an aulos (flute).
• Thalia represented both comedy and pastoral poetry and she was associated with the comic mask.
• Melpomene was the Muse of tragedy and her item was the tragic mask.
• Terpsichore was the Muse of dance and she was always associated with the lyre.
• Erato was always associated with love poetry. She had a type of lyre called the cithara.
• Polyhymnia represented sacred poetry and she was always depicted with a veil.
• Urania was the Muse of astronomy and she had a globe and compass.

Who is your favourite muse?

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