Send us a text Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary Podcast and back to our writing process section of the show. Today we have the amazing Mazrine L Amaris, who I adore, this episode was recorded a good year or so ago and we are now amazing friends. She is such a wonderful and thoughtful person and author and I can't wait for you guys to hear her chat. I'm patiently (or not so patiently) awaiting book 3 so make sure you read up on book 1 and 2, and whatever you do? Don't hound her...i...

Send us a text Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary Podcast and another Writing Process Podcast. Today we have the lovely ML Jewell, I met Mel at Supanova in 2023 and she has become a permanent fixture in my life since. This was so insightful and exciting to interview her about her writing process and her books. Author Bio: M.L Jewell, or as most people call her, Mel, is a local Brisbane Indie Author. October 2023 marked the release of her first novel, Rise of the Witches. A dark ad...

Send us a text Welcome back to The Writing Apothecary and to another return guest and my bestie Peta Hawker, she was one of the first guests on the podcast and I love any chance I get to chat to her. Her process has changed dramatically from when we first recorded this so it's fun to revist it all. Peta's Official Bio My daily grind involves content writing and knowledge management for a large organisation. When I’m not attached to my work computer, I like to squeeze our three cats (much ...

Send us a text Come inside the curtain of Supanova Brisbane - most lovingly knowns as Brisnova - and chat to the plethora of indie authors and a few traditonally published authors there. This was recorded in November 2024. My second supanova and honestly, probably the most chilled and exhausting event I've ever done. It spanned over three days from 10-6, which as a self proclaimed ADHD introvert that was a lot of masking and talking. But so well worth it. This year, I could have sworn t...

Send us a textWelcome 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 ...

Send us a textWelcome 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 Proj...

Send us a textWelcome 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 youto 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.&n...

Send us a textWelcome 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...

Send us a textWelcome 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 ScenesWhat is needed from the scenesWhat it takes to make the battlefield work.Tell me what did you take away from this week's lesson? I'd love to knowAlso, I would really appreciate it if you took the time to rate and review the podcast it helps people find our community and gets the p...

Send us a textWelcome 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 motivesGoing back to basicsInternal ConflictExternal ConflictEmotional triggersTell me what did you take away from this week's lesson? I'd love to knowAlso, I would really appreciate it if you took the time to rate and review the podcast it helps people find our community and gets the podcast ou...

Send us a textWelcome 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 ScenesAction Fight ScenesI'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...

Send us a textWelcome 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 DesignSupporting yourselfMorning pagesAbout 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 ~ bec...

Send us a textWelcome 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 t...

Send us a textWelcome 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 Mu...

Send us a textWelcome to a new topic! We're going to look at Creativity and the Muse. I make some pretty big statements too, but before that let's take a peek into what will come. It's also the first episode back after the huge year that was! I cover it in the episode.We’ll be looking at the history behind the muse and just what creativity is. Creativity will not wait for you. It will dry up when you don’t use it but it will still be there when you come back to it. It’s something that yo...

Send us a textWelcome back to The Writing Apothecary podcast and to our interview with the most divine human ever. I got to interview Amie Mcnee who is the perfect most perfect guest for Writer's Block. It's been a challenge to get here! This episode is so delayed due to me getting the spicy cough and have been dealing with all of the fatigue that comes with it, but we're back and we're ready. In today's chat here are some of the topics we chat about:Writer's BlockProcrastination Am...

Send us a textWelcome back to The Writing Apothecary podcast and to our last theory lesson on Writer's Block. It's a bit late as I had the spicy cough and was pretty exhausted. But we're back into it. Writer’s Block is such a personal thing and I’ve loved hearing from you guys and opening up the conversation about Writer’s block because it is so different for everyone and I think that it’s a great opportunity to talk to other writers about how it feels or what you can do to help heal it, whic...

Send us a textWelcome back to our second lesson on writer’s block. I hope that you’ve all been productive. I know I have. Or at least I have tried to be. I’ve sent my manuscript to my editor and it’s with BETA readers. It’s making me so nervous but I’m trying to keep busy, which is good. I’m trying to get ahead with the podcast because it does take a lot of time and effort to get it done. I’m a one-woman production here. I write all the scripts, record, edit and mix all of the episodes on my ...

Send us a textWelcome back to a new year and a new topic. 2021 is behind us and I can’t believe that we’re in 2022! Wowiiiie. I hope everyone has had some great time off. I spent some of my time off in Adelaide with my mum and basically being a mermaid and then just getting back into my retail job. Things are gearing up and are a little mental at the moment but that will pass. I know it will.But also, welcome to one year of The Writing Apothecary Podcast! We have covered so much ground ...

Send us a textWelcome back to The Writing Apothecary and our interview for revision. Today's guest is published author Jess Faraday and we talk about all things revision. As a traditionally published author she has a different take on revisions and an important one.In today's chat we talk about:First draftsTime between revisionsLooking as aspectsHow to flip the revisions on their headAnd some great nuggets on when to revise. I really loved this chat and it was such a fun and refreshing t...