

Ink in Your Veins
Rachael Herron
How writers actually write! You might need to be a writer, but you don't need to struggle 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) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Apr 3, 2024 • 20min
422 | Getting Unstuck with Sacha Black - Special Episode!
Rachael’s Kickstarter is FINALLY LIVE! And she's freaking out. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rachaelherron/unstuck-an-audacious-hunt-for-home-and-happinessToday 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 and sapphic books for Young Adults. She also writes spicy sapphic fantasy under Ruby Roe.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://rachaelherron.com/write💥 90 Days to Done - WRITE YOUR BOOK! http://rachaelherron.com/90📚 90 Day Revision! http://rachaelherron.com/revision🪑 Join Onward Writer Slack! http://rachaelherron.com/slackwithme📅 Rachael Says Plan! Plan with me! http://patreon.com/rachael📝 Rachael Says Write! Write with me! http://rachaelherron.com/rachaelsayswrite📙 Publish Your Book! https://rachaelherron.com/publish❓ I'll Answer Your Questions on Air! http://patreon.com/rachaelEXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITERS: ➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book - https://rachaelherron.com/therightbook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 1, 2024 • 58min
421 | The Black Herron Ep 19 with Special Guest Joanna Penn
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 lots more.✏️ Can I email you some writing help? http://rachaelherron.com/write💥 90 Days to Done - WRITE YOUR BOOK! http://rachaelherron.com/90📚 90 Day Revision! http://rachaelherron.com/revision🪑 Join Onward Writer Slack! http://rachaelherron.com/slackwithme📅 Rachael Says Plan! Plan with me! http://patreon.com/rachael📝 Rachael Says Write! Write with me! http://rachaelherron.com/rachaelsayswrite📙 Publish Your Book! https://rachaelherron.com/publish❓ I'll Answer Your Questions on Air! http://patreon.com/rachaelEXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITERS: ➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book - https://rachaelherron.com/therightbook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 29, 2024 • 45min
420 | 8 Years as a Full-Time Writer - Lessons Learned
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 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://rachaelherron.com/write💥 90 Days to Done - WRITE YOUR BOOK! http://rachaelherron.com/90📚 90 Day Revision! http://rachaelherron.com/revision🪑 Join Onward Writer Slack! http://rachaelherron.com/slackwithme📅 Rachael Says Plan! Plan with me! http://patreon.com/rachael📝 Rachael Says Write! Write with me! http://rachaelherron.com/rachaelsayswrite📙 Publish Your Book! https://rachaelherron.com/publish❓ I'll Answer Your Questions on Air! http://patreon.com/rachaelEXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITERS: ➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book - https://rachaelherron.com/therightbook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 22, 2024 • 37min
419 | Write Till You Cry with Ken Guidroz
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 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://rachaelherron.com/write💥 90 Days to Done - WRITE YOUR BOOK! http://rachaelherron.com/90📚 90 Day Revision! http://rachaelherron.com/revision🪑 Join Onward Writer Slack! http://rachaelherron.com/slackwithme📅 Rachael Says Plan! Plan with me! http://patreon.com/rachael📝 Rachael Says Write! Write with me! http://rachaelherron.com/rachaelsayswrite📙 Publish Your Book! https://rachaelherron.com/publish❓ I'll Answer Your Questions on Air! http://patreon.com/rachaelEXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITERS: ➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book - https://rachaelherron.com/therightbook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 14, 2024 • 32min
418 | How to Survive the Post-Publishing Crash with Sarah-Jane Collins
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 is home now, she misses the beaches of Australia, but not the spiders. Radiant Heat is her debut thriller. 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://rachaelherron.com/write💥 90 Days to Done - WRITE YOUR BOOK! http://rachaelherron.com/90📚 90 Day Revision! http://rachaelherron.com/revision🪑 Join Onward Writer Slack! http://rachaelherron.com/slackwithme📅 Rachael Says Plan! Plan with me! http://patreon.com/rachael📝 Rachael Says Write! Write with me! http://rachaelherron.com/rachaelsayswrite📙 Publish Your Book! https://rachaelherron.com/publish❓ I'll Answer Your Questions on Air! http://patreon.com/rachaelEXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITERS: ➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book - https://rachaelherron.com/therightbook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 14, 2024 • 45min
417 | How to Not Quit Writing by Accident
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 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://rachaelherron.com/write💥 90 Days to Done - WRITE YOUR BOOK! http://rachaelherron.com/90📚 90 Day Revision! http://rachaelherron.com/revision🪑 Join Onward Writer Slack! http://rachaelherron.com/slackwithme📅 Rachael Says Plan! Plan with me! http://patreon.com/rachael📝 Rachael Says Write! Write with me! http://rachaelherron.com/rachaelsayswrite📙 Publish Your Book! https://rachaelherron.com/publish❓ I'll Answer Your Questions on Air! http://patreon.com/rachaelEXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITERS: ➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book - https://rachaelherron.com/therightbook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 7, 2024 • 34min
416 | How to End Your Book with Jennifer Lang
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 American Essays nominee, she earned an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.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://rachaelherron.com/write💥 90 Days to Done - WRITE YOUR BOOK! http://rachaelherron.com/90📚 90 Day Revision! http://rachaelherron.com/revision🪑 Join Onward Writer Slack! http://rachaelherron.com/slackwithme📅 Rachael Says Plan! Plan with me! http://patreon.com/rachael📝 Rachael Says Write! Write with me! http://rachaelherron.com/rachaelsayswrite📙 Publish Your Book! https://rachaelherron.com/publish❓ I'll Answer Your Questions on Air! http://patreon.com/rachaelEXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITERS: ➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book - https://rachaelherron.com/therightbook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 29, 2024 • 38min
415 | The Black Herron 18
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://rachaelherron.com/write💥 90 Days to Done - WRITE YOUR BOOK! http://rachaelherron.com/90📚 90 Day Revision! http://rachaelherron.com/revision🪑 Join Onward Writer Slack! http://rachaelherron.com/slackwithme📅 Rachael Says Plan! Plan with me! http://patreon.com/rachael📝 Rachael Says Write! Write with me! http://rachaelherron.com/rachaelsayswrite📙 Publish Your Book! https://rachaelherron.com/publish❓ I'll Answer Your Questions on Air! http://patreon.com/rachaelEXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITERS: ➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book - https://rachaelherron.com/therightbook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 29, 2024 • 29min
414 | Channeling the Muse with Renée Hartleib
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 looking for accountability, coaching, or developmental editing. She lives with her partner, their three children, one dog, and four cats in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. And she is currently training to walk Spain’s Camino Frances in Spring 2024!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://rachaelherron.com/write💥 90 Days to Done - WRITE YOUR BOOK! http://rachaelherron.com/90📚 90 Day Revision! http://rachaelherron.com/revision🪑 Join Onward Writer Slack! http://rachaelherron.com/slackwithme📅 Rachael Says Plan! Plan with me! http://patreon.com/rachael📝 Rachael Says Write! Write with me! http://rachaelherron.com/rachaelsayswrite📙 Publish Your Book! https://rachaelherron.com/publish❓ I'll Answer Your Questions on Air! http://patreon.com/rachaelEXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITERS: ➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book - https://rachaelherron.com/therightbook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 22, 2024 • 35min
413 | How to Use a Book Launch for Social Proof with Helen B. Scheuerer
In which Rachael’s mind is blown by Helen’s launch techniques, and she might just be able to get behind doing a real-live launch next time! Helen B. Scheuerer is the bestselling fantasy author of the series, The Oremere Chronicles, Curse of the Cyren Queen and The Legends of Thezmarr. Her work has been highly praised for its strong, flawed female characters and its action-packed plots. She also publishes advice for authors with her nonfiction series, Books For Career Authors. Helen’s love of writing and books led her to pursue a creative writing degree and a Masters of Publishing. She has been a full-time author since 2018 and now lives amidst the mountains in New Zealand where she is constantly dreaming up new stories. 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://rachaelherron.com/write💥 90 Days to Done - WRITE YOUR BOOK! http://rachaelherron.com/90📚 90 Day Revision! http://rachaelherron.com/revision🪑 Join Onward Writer Slack! http://rachaelherron.com/slackwithme📅 Rachael Says Plan! Plan with me! http://patreon.com/rachael📝 Rachael Says Write! Write with me! http://rachaelherron.com/rachaelsayswrite📙 Publish Your Book! https://rachaelherron.com/publish❓ I'll Answer Your Questions on Air! http://patreon.com/rachaelEXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITERS: ➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book - https://rachaelherron.com/therightbook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.


