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This is a special episode in which we meet for our very own DIY writing retreat! We hope this inspires you to carve out time for yourself and whatever it is you are working on. Part Two will follow soon. Good luck with your writing!

It's the last episode of series three! We chat about the expectations we put on ourselves and our writing. Are we asking too much of ourselves? Do expectations help or hinder our creativity? Thanks for listening and good luck with your writing xxx

In this episode we chat about the patterns of our working, how we motivate ourselves to sit down at our desks and stay there, how we  understand our own habits in order to get most out of our writing time and really 'go the distance' with our work. Stay tuned for more running analogies!  

What makes your characters feel real? How do we bring them to life? In this episode we chat about how we attempt to find an essential truth when writing dialogue and portraying characters. We also discuss character flaws, finding nuance in dialogue, varying our tone and adopting we know traits from…

Do you get writers block? Is it a want for inspiration or an inability to make decisions? In this episode we discuss plotting vs improv. We also talk about what we do when we get stuck whilst writing to become unstuck. 

In this episode we discuss writing advice. Writing can be inspiring and motivational. But should we listen to all advice from professionals? Does the advice of others ever make you feel like you're doing it wrong? Or make you feel guilty? We're here to say... us too! 

'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness....' and all that. Keats wrote autumn well, and so did many writers who put ink to quill before him and digits to keyboards after. But what effect did the seasons have on those writers - and do the seasons have an impact on us? Does the time of yea…

In series 2 episode 6, we discuss the challenges of editing. Do we let our egos get in the way of refining our work? How hard is it to remove writing that we are proud of, for the good of the story - especially when we have such limited time to put down any words at all? We also discuss our writing…

We talk about our writing expectations vs our writing reality. What notions did we have about writing and the life of a a writer? Do we still have expectations that might not be met? How do we continue to have hope and enthusiasm when mean old reality rears its head?