How to use the turn of a page as a cliffhanger, and hey, would you still write if you knew you weren't going to be published? Don't miss this awesome conversation today! Airlie Anderson is the author and illustrator of children’s picture books Only: The Bird Who Liked Being Alone, Neither, Cat’s Colors, Cat’s Seasons, and more. She grew up in California and spent a lot of time reading and drawing, as well as swimming and pretending to ride a horse. Her early influences were animation art, pop ar...
May 16, 2024•39 min•Ep. 443
Savor this inspiring chat with Candra Anaya on why a break may be exactly what you need! Candra Anaya is a freelance writer best known for her monthly column, DearQueer~ Gayly Giving Advice Straight from the Heart. Candra is the gay mom you want to confess everything to, whose feedback uplifts as much as it educates straight and queer readers alike. Most recently, Candra is a featured author in Amazon's #1 Bestselling book, The Life-Changing Power of Self-Love. She authors Chapter 11, Synergize ...
May 09, 2024•44 min•Ep. 442
In this bonus episode, Rachael talks about her near miss with Scrivener destroying a WHOLE BOOK (spoiler: they also saved it and really, it was mostly her fault). She also discusses her new online writing retreat, Lala's new venture, and answers a Patron question about whether they should outline or not! Writing in the Junkyard Retreat is HERE . Sign up to be in the drawing to win a free author website from Lala as she gets her business up and running HERE . Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actual...
May 02, 2024•31 min•Ep. 441
The Black Herron strikes again! As usual, plans for world domination from Sacha Black, and Rachael Herron paddles along just trying to keep up with her! Rachael’s Kickstarter is here! http://rachaelherron.com/unstuck Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too) Writing doesn't have to be so hard. With internationally bestselling author Rachael Herron, learn how to embrace ease, reject perfectionism, and finally create your perfect writing process. (Formerly known as How D...
Apr 30, 2024•54 min•Ep. 440
How did Rachael’s Kickstarter end up? IT IS EXCITING! And then dive into what’s keeping you from writing with Donn King! Donn King is The Confidence Cultivat or. He is a professor of communication studies (which means “a professor of standing up in front of people and saying stuff”). He’s also an author, a pastor, a speaker, and a communication coach.He started writing for a newspaper at age 14 and made part or, at times, all of his living writing for over 40 years. But when his disabled daughte...
Apr 25, 2024•53 min•Ep. 439
This last bonus Unstuck episode with Tiffany Yates Martin will get you to ask the impossible questions, especially if you’re not sure of the answer. Tiffany Yates Martin has spent nearly thirty years as an editor in the publishing industry, working with major publishers and New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling and award-winning authors as well as indie and newer writers. She is the founder of FoxPrint Editorial and author of Intuitive Editing: A Creativ...
Apr 22, 2024•24 min•Ep. 438
Anne Kemp shares the wisdom of just doing SOMETHING to get yourself the slightest bit unstuck - it all adds up! Anne Kemp is a bestselling author of romantic comedies. She loves reading (and she does it ridiculously fast, too!), gluten-free baking (because everyone needs a hobby that makes them crazy), and finding time to binge-watch her favorite shows. She grew up in Maryland but made Los Angeles her home until she encountered her own real-life meet-cute at a friend's wedding where she ended up...
Apr 22, 2024•23 min•Ep. 437
Trapped in a small room inside the country you’ve just moved to, unable to get out. Thank god for the bathtub. Bonus episode! Here's Rachael's Kickstarter, Unstuck! Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too) Writing doesn't have to be so hard. With internationally bestselling author Rachael Herron, learn how to embrace ease, reject perfectionism, and finally create your perfect writing process. (Formerly known as How Do You Write) Come for inspiration, stay for lots mor...
Apr 20, 2024•25 min•Ep. 436
Perfectionism, man. Throw it back. How? Let’s talk about getting unstuck with Nicole Peeler! Nicole D. Peeler is an essayist and novelist, as well as an associate professor of English at Seton Hill University. There she directs the MFA in Writing Popular Fiction. Nicole lives in Pittsburgh, although she's often wandering. Neck-Deep in the Dicksand Podcast! Here's Rachael's Kickstarter, Unstuck! Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too) Writing doesn't have to be so har...
Apr 20, 2024•21 min•Ep. 4345
On letting go and trusting your instincts to get unstuck, bonus episode with Carter Wilson! Carter Wilson is the USA Today bestselling author of nine critically acclaimed, standalone psychological thrillers , as well as numerous short stories. He is an ITW Thriller Award finalist, a five-time winner of the Colorado Book Award, and his works have been optioned for television and film. Additionally, he is the host of the Making It Up podcast and founder of the Unbound Writer company, which provide...
Apr 19, 2024•23 min•Ep. 434
Special bonus episode with Jason (The Man With the Amazing Toolbox) Poole, who talks about mis-categorizing feelings of excitement with Rachael as they chat about getting unstuck! Jason Craig Poole is a prize-winning poet, teacher and musician. His work has appeared in Paterson Literary Review, Brevity Blog, Molecule and other publications. His story and music are featured in the documentary, Sons of Hālawa. When he’s not climbing the monkey bars at the playground with his son, he’s pursuing an ...
Apr 18, 2024•16 min•Ep. 433
Another special bonus episode, this time with the amazing and SUPER inspiring Ines Johnson! Lover of fairytales, folklore, and mythology, Ines Johnson spends her days reimagining the stories of old in a modern world. She also writes sweet western romances under the pen name Shanae Johnson. Aside from being a writer, professional reader, and teacher, Ines is a very bad Buddhist. She sits in sangha each week, and while others are meditating and getting their zen on, she’s contemplating how to use ...
Apr 16, 2024•21 min•Ep. 432
Getting unstuck in a BIG way with Jennie Nash, in which Jennie is brave AF, moving forward with beautiful integrity. If you’re stuck? Listen to this one. Jennie Nash is the founder and CEO of Author Accelerator, a company on a mission to lead the emerging book coaching industry with rigorous training, high standards for certification, and ongoing support for coaches while they launch and build their businesses. Jennie’s own clients have landed top agents, six-figure book deals, and spots on the ...
Apr 16, 2024•25 min•Ep. 431
Award-winning, USA Today bestselling social worker turned crime novelist Toby Neal grew up on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. Neal is a mental health therapist, a career that has informed the depth and complexity of the characters in her stories. Neal also writes romance under Toby Jane. Toby's memoir, Freckled: a Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii, has been widely praised. Kirkus calls Freckled, "an affecting and riveting chronicle...in a Hawaii long lost." She writes memoirs under TW Neal. Her...
Apr 15, 2024•15 min•Ep. 430
Ride along as Rachael's mind gets BLOWN by J. Thorn talking about luck. J. Thorn has published more than two million words and has sold over 200,000 books worldwide since 2009. He has been an official member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers, and is currently a member of the Horror Writers Association. Thorn earned a B.A. in American History from the University of Pittsburgh and a M.A. from Duquesne University. He is a husband...
Apr 14, 2024•15 min•Ep. 429
A. K. Mulford knows a lot about saving themselves (and their whole family!) from being stuck. A. K. Mulford is a bestselling fantasy author and former wildlife biologist who swapped rehabilitating monkeys for writing novels.She/they are inspired to create diverse stories that transport readers to new realms, making them fall in love with fantasy for the first time or all over again. They also write rom-coms under Ali K. Mulford. She now lives in Australia with her husband and two young human pri...
Apr 12, 2024•26 min•Ep. 428
KJ Dell'Antonia shares some amazing ways to get unstuck in her normal, down-to-earth, hilarious way. Here's Rachael's Kickstarter, Unstuck! KJ Dell’Antonia is a New York Times best-selling author whose novels The Chicken Sisters and In Her Boots explore the same themes she once explored as a journalist: the importance of finding joy in our families, the challenge of figuring out what makes us happy and the need to value the life we’re living more than the one in our phones and laptops, every sin...
Apr 11, 2024•18 min•Ep. 427
Today, Rachael’s sharing a favorite blooper from editing the audiobook Unstuck, plus, get a whole chapter on what it feels like to cull a household of stuff down to almost nothing. Rachael's Kickstarter, Unstuck! Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too) Writing doesn't have to be so hard. With internationally bestselling author Rachael Herron, learn how to embrace ease, reject perfectionism, and finally create your perfect writing process. (Formerly known as How Do Yo...
Apr 10, 2024•23 min•Ep. 426
Becca Syme on leaving home and never going back, on what it's like to be stuck, and how to get yourself out (even if you love-trick yourself to do it). Rachael's Kickstarter, Unstuck: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rachaelherron/unstuck-an-audacious-hunt-for-home-and-happiness Becca Syme is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach with a Master's Degree in Transformational Leadership and seventeen years of experience in success coaching with writers, organizations and individuals in communicatio...
Apr 10, 2024•28 min•Ep. 425
Monna McDiarmid on what it's like to be stuck, and how to get yourself out (even if you're still stuck!) Rachael's Kickstarter, Unstuck: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rachaelherron/unstuck-an-audacious-hunt-for-home-and-happiness Monna McDiarmid is a writer, life coach and educator. She and her partner live in a tiny apartment in Yokohama, Japan and an old, wooden house in Nova Scotia, Canada. She believes in the healing power of poetry, the sea, and a roaring fire in a wood stove. Her wo...
Apr 09, 2024•21 min•Ep. 424
Joanna Penn on what it's like to be stuck, and how to get yourself out. Rachael's Kickstarter, Unstuck: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rachaelherron/unstuck-an-audacious-hunt-for-home-and-happiness Joanna Penn is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thrillers writing under the name J.F. Penn. She also writes inspirational non-fiction for authors and is an award-winning creative entrepreneur and international professional speaker. Find her here: https://www.thecreativepenn.c...
Apr 08, 2024•16 min•Ep. 423
Rachael’s Kickstarter is FINALLY LIVE! And she's freaking out. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rachaelherron/unstuck-an-audacious-hunt-for-home-and-happiness Today Rachael's talking to Sacha Black about how to get Unstuck! Sacha Black is a best selling and competition winning author, rebel podcaster, and professional speaker. She has five obsessions; words, expensive shoes, conspiracy theories, self-improvement, and breaking the rules. Sacha writes educational nonfiction books for writers a...
Apr 03, 2024•20 min•Ep. 422
SPECIAL GUEST STAR! Joanna Penn joins Sacha Black and Rachael for a friends’ chat about publishing, Kickstarter fun, and how to find community while maintaining boundaries. Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too) Writing doesn't have to be so hard. With internationally bestselling author Rachael Herron, learn how to embrace ease, reject perfectionism, and finally create your perfect writing process. (Formerly known as How Do You Write) Come for inspiration, stay for ...
Apr 01, 2024•58 min•Ep. 421
It’s been 8 years since Rachael quit her day job to sail off into writing full time - what has she learned since then? Does she work hard enough? Does she write enough books? How does she feel about the market? It’s time to find out. Also: Rachael Says Write is changing - join us for just $2 here! http://rachaelherron.com/rachaelsayswrite And don’t forget to click here to find out when the moving-to-New-Zealand memoir Unstuck launches! http://rachaelherron.com/unstuck Ink In Your Veins: How Writ...
Mar 29, 2024•45 min•Ep. 420
Ken Guidroz is a debut memoirist. 14 years ago he wrote the go-to book for his profession, Beyond the 401(k). But this is his first personal work. And it is personal. It is honest. In the book, Letters to My Son in Prison, he lays out the challenges he had in his marriage, the difficulties of connecting with a son in prison, and the long road back to finding God outside the four walls of religion. Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too) Writing doesn't have to be so ...
Mar 22, 2024•37 min•Ep. 419
What’s the post-publishing crash, and why aren’t we talking about it more? Sarah-Jane Collins is a writer, editor, and journalist from Meanjin (Brisbane), Australia, who moved to New York by way of Gadigal land (Sydney), and Naarm (Melbourne). Her work has appeared in the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, Meanjin, Overland , and others. She has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Her fiction has won the Overland Fair Australia Prize and been short-listed for other awards. Although New York...
Mar 14, 2024•32 min•Ep. 418
EPIC bonus Q&A episode, featuring questions from Patrons: How do I write when I’m scared of screwing it all up? How many agents should I query? How are you supposed to afford self-publishing, if you go that way? How can I figure out what to learn next? What goes in front and back matter? Should I presell a book two? Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too) Writing doesn't have to be so hard. With internationally bestselling author Rachael Herron, learn how to embr...
Mar 14, 2024•45 min•Ep. 417
Two surprising and awesome ways to actually END your book! A California transplant in Tel Aviv, Jennifer Lang teaches writing and yoga. She's American by birth, Israeli by choice, and French by marriage. Award-winning Places We Left Behind: a memoir- in-miniature is her first book and Landed: A yogi's memoir in pieces & poses will follow in October 2024. Her essays have appeared in Under the Sun, Ascent, Hippocampus, and forthcoming in Consequence, among others. A Pushcart Prize and Best Ame...
Mar 07, 2024•34 min•Ep. 416
In which Sacha reveals to Rachael an amazing secret that she hasn't told anyone but her partner up till NOW. Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too) Writing doesn't have to be so hard. With internationally bestselling author Rachael Herron, learn how to embrace ease, reject perfectionism, and finally create your perfect writing process. (Formerly known as How Do You Write) Come for inspiration, stay for lots more. ✏️ Can I email you some writing help? http://rachaelh...
Feb 29, 2024•38 min•Ep. 415
In which Rachael and Renée Hartleib talk about channeling the muse, but not in a weird way - more like a workaday way. Plus, why you SHOULD take a solo writing retreat! Renée Hartleib is a Canadian author, writer, editor, and writing mentor. She has published short fiction, and most recently a non-fiction book entitled Writing Your Way: A 40-Day Path of Self-Discovery . She is passionate about aiding and inspiring creatives and offers both online programs and one-on-one support for writers looki...
Feb 29, 2024•29 min•Ep. 414
