Author Alchemist Podcast
Lessons in Alchemy
Episode 013: Know Your Writing Cycle
Are you beholden to other people’s ideas about how fast/often you should write? Do you keep aiming for marks set by everyone but you and then miss them? Then this episode is for you. I look at the way writing ebbs and flows, how the advice “write every day” isn’t the...
Episode 012: Ways of Writing
Pantser? Plotter? How DO you write, anyway? In this episode I meander around the different approaches to how a writer can write, and talk some about why it’s important AND why it’s not important. After a long introduction talking about how I was sick with a cold and...
Podcast 011: WIP into shape!
Do you have stories you've started but never finished? Then this podcast is for you! I have found over time that starting a story, finishing a story, and coming back to finish a story you started writing a long time ago are all very different things. I don't think...
Episode 010: (don’t) kill your darlings
You need to love what you write, or you will never get through the hard work of finishing and then editing your stories. But how do you love something when all the experts are telling you to “kill it!”? In this episode, I look at the history of one of the popular...
Podcast 009: The right writing guide for you?
Back in the old days, walking into a bookstore and looking at the “writing” section with shelves filled to the brim with self-help books about how to write, and what to write, and where to market, and...it was overwhelming. At least these days you can just jump online...
Podcast 008: DO what you want to be!
We often lock ourselves into patterns and habits that do not serve us. This episode is about recognizing how we do that, and what we can do to change it, but even more importantly: WHY. In regards specifically to writing, I talk about how my own need to “practice”...
Podcast 007: Building Your Support Network
This was a hard episode to record. I think every creative person who has tried to follow their dreams knows what it feels like to be let down by the people we expected to be our strongest supporters.Sometimes it is very direct: they disapprove of our...
Podcast 006: Let Go of the Past
In this podcast I start getting a little personal about my own story as a writer. I don't think my experiences are particularly unique because I know a lot of writers, both amateurs and professionals, who suffer from The Dread Malaise of Regret....
Podcast 005: The Rules for Writing (anything)
If you know me, then you know my story involves a lot of baby Kimboo reading many writing guides as I attempted to figure out what kind of writer I am. One of the things I learned early on was that there were (are!) rules for everything. It did not take me...
Podcast 004: Writers write from empathy
I finally got this podcast edited and uploaded for you! I don't know why each episode seems so monumental to me but they do, and I always have a minor celebration everytime I get one done. *chair dancing* The working title for this episode was “you don't...