Diary of a Writer
People are fascinated with the idea of writing. So many people say, 'I want to write a novel,' but so few actually know what's entailed. The Diary of a Writer is an inside look at the life of a full-time writer, who's been writing for over a decade and actively publishing stories over that time. Messy, chaotic, vulnerable and exhausting, the Diary of a Writer, should not be read by the feint hearted.
Ink will be spilt; fingers shall crack; pages will go missing.
Episodes
30 episodes
Your Creative Work Is Important
The world constantly tries to tell us what is important to us, or at least, what is meant to be important to us. But what's important to us has to come from within us, otherwise the importance we try to put onto something is just a fak...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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9:45
Evil, Better and Ready (Play On Words)
💖 📝Thank you for being a subscriber to this show📝💖This episode is a little unhinged ...I got frustrated at the world and it's basic use of language, especially after an event that happened in Australia. The wa...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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32:55
Friendships in Fiction
As an avid reader, I keep coming across the same story lines in books. And most of those story lines focus on a romantic partner rather than a friendship.Today, we're discussing this phenomenon where fiction writing is causing us to deva...
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Episode 10
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7:46
Embrace the Chaos
Whilst in the process of redefining the format for my third fantasy novel, I have learnt a new valuable lesson when creating stories: embrace the chaos. As someone who likes structure and planning, that can be really hard. But if it...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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9:39
Writing Skill vs Writing Talent
💖 📝Thank you for being a subscriber to this show📝💖Is writing a skill or is it a talent?If you hang around with a group of writers long enough, this question will come up. Everyone will, naturally, have their o...
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Episode 8
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6:21
Opening Chapters - How Not To Do It
Today I am reviewing five novels and discussing why they're opening chapters don't hit the mark. No, I'm not naming names, but yes, they're all bestsellers, which I suppose just goes to show that even the so called 'best' have issues.Thi...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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23:48
Creating Art for Joy
In a world that isn't motivated into doing anything without a dollar value, it can be hard to remember to do things just for the fun of it. For over a year now, I've been struggling with finding joy with my craft. But thanks to nume...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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15:52
Self-Sabotage
Creators are their own worst critic and because of that we're really good at self-sabotage. The trick is, learning ways we unknowingly self-sabotage ourselves and then implement processes to change that habit whilst also learning why we feel th...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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17:52
Story Ideas & Timing
I have always been fascinated about the timing of things in my life, including my creative life. The stories I have written, would not be written the same if they came to me today. It means, my earlier work no longer represents the creator I am...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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10:19
Top Ten Writing Tips
Everyone has a Top Ten and here is mine on writing.If you'd like to purchase the ebook which accompanies this episode, you can do so here!Thank you for being a subscriber to thi...
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Episode 3
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18:03
Why Middle Grade Triumphs Over YA
I don't like to pit book genres (or in fact, anything against one another) as I believe each side will have their uses, however, after working through some triggers last year associated to schools, I did uncover what I believe is a major reason...
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Episode 2
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18:21
Burn Out
It's a New Year and we're starting season 2 with an episode about ... burn out? I know, strange subject for a time of year where people are supposedly rejuvenated and ready to conquer new goals. But let's be real, sometimes the holiday season d...
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Episode 1
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8:23
New Goal Setting Technique for 2026
It’s that time of year where we begin to look ahead, where we start to make plans and set goals for ourselves. However, instead of doing that, I encourage you to do something else, something far more difficult, but something which perhaps will ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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9:03
Embrace Imperfection
If every creator could embrace imperfection, there would be a lot more art in the world. And with the rise of AI, what this world needs more of than ever is art created by humans. Creators, it’s time to embrace the imperfectio...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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7:27
Greek Mythology & Giving Yourself Permission to Create
Today we're diving into a little bit of Greek mythology as a correction to myself from the last episode: Medusa (But Not Medusa). And then, we're diving into more deeper and meaningful waters about what potential unseen road blocks we have in o...
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Episode 12
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21:54
Medusa (But Not Medusa*)
There comes a point in a writers life whereby they wonder if they're actually writing a novel or fighting medusa (correction: hydra). This week, it's been about fighting medusa (correction: hydra) and its many snake heads, which kept reappearin...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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6:54
The Anne Frank Experiment
Journal writing. It appears a lot in novels, but is it actually a good way to convey your story? Me thinks not for some very good reasons, but there is a writing exercise one can learn to master from the Queen of Diary Writing, and of ...
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Episode 13
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6:24
Keeping Creative Juices Flowing
It's a hell of a lot of work to continue with a creative project until it's finished, but getting a new project off the ground when it doesn't yet have any legs is just as hard. Today, I discuss a method I use to avoid falling into that lull sp...
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Episode 12
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4:41
Tortured Souls
Creators are by nature tortured souls. It seems almost a pre-requisite to enter the field, and as such, we have a habit of losing a lot of creative souls much sooner than we should. How then do we save ourselves from following a similar journey...
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6:16
Original Ideas
Most of the time our original ideas are our best ideas, but not always is every part of ourselves on board with that notion. So, instead of creating a smooth sailing process, we create a few hiccups for ourselves by deviating off our original i...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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2:50
Flow
Very few get chosen to live an authentic creative life that allows the creative juices to flow as they need, which is really sad because creativity is all about flow. It doesn't care about structure or deadlines, inspiration can and will hit at...
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Episode 10
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4:55
Time Spans
The power of time has a great impact on all our lives and it should be no different to our characters. One of the worst ways one can degrade a story, is to put too much in too short of a time frame. Their needs to be space for growth and recove...
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Episode 9
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3:58
Creative Outlets
One thing I've learnt this year, is that writers should have other creative outlets. I have a habit of getting a lot done over a short period of time with my writing, but that's always created burn out and these periods of lull. What I've learn...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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4:31
Not For Sale
Writers are asked to promote their work in this day and age. It's just become the norm to have to meet that requirement, even though, no one has probably stopped to think how ridiculous that is considering the different calibre one must be to h...
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Episode 7
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9:03
Intuition
Despite all the guidebooks out there telling people how to write, one’s intuition is always going to be their best director. That internal compass will help you through every part of the writing journey, so it's worth learning how to harness it...
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Episode 6
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7:18