

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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Oct 20, 2022 • 27min
Ep. 325: Elizabeth Miki Brina on How to Know When to Go Deep
Elizabeth Miki Brina is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Bread Loaf Scholarship and a New York State Summer Writers Institute Scholarship. She currently lives and teaches in New Orleans.How Do You Write Podcast: Explore the processes of working writers with bestselling author Rachael Herron. Want tips on how to write the book you long to finish? Here you'll gain insight from other writers on how to get in the chair, tricks to stay in it, and inspiration to get your own words flowing. Join Rachael's Slack channel, Onward Writers: https://join.slack.com/t/onwardwriters/shared_invite/zt-7a3gorfm-C15cTKh_47CEdWIBW~RKwgRachael can be YOUR mini-coach, and she’ll answer all your questions on the show! http://patreon.com/rachael Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 13, 2022 • 31min
Ep. 324: Jalynn Harris on How to Use Revision in Our Real Lives
Jalynn Harris is a poet, educator, editor, and press founder from Baltimore, MD. She founded SoftSavagePress for the sole purpose of promoting visual and literary works by Black people. She earned her MFA from the University of Baltimore, where she was the inaugural recipient of Michael F. Klein fellowship for social justice. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Poem-A-Day, The Best American Poetry 2022, Transition Magazine, Little Patuxent Review, Feminist Studies, and elsewhere. Her first collection of poems, Exit Thru the Afro, can be purchased now! How Do You Write Podcast: Explore the processes of working writers with bestselling author Rachael Herron. Want tips on how to write the book you long to finish? Here you'll gain insight from other writers on how to get in the chair, tricks to stay in it, and inspiration to get your own words flowing. Join Rachael's Slack channel, Onward Writers: https://join.slack.com/t/onwardwriters/shared_invite/zt-7a3gorfm-C15cTKh_47CEdWIBW~RKwgRachael can be YOUR mini-coach, and she’ll answer all your questions on the show! http://patreon.com/rachael Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 6, 2022 • 38min
Ep. 323: Jess Montgomery on the Troll Dolls Stuck in Your Writing Couch
Jess Montgomery is the author of the Kinship Historical Mysteries, set in 1920s Appalachian Ohio and inspired by Ohio’s true first female sheriff. Under her given name, she writes the “Level Up Your (Writing) Life” column for Writer’s Digest. She is a three-time recipient of the Individual Excellence Award in Literary Arts from Ohio Arts Council, a two-time recipient of the Montgomery County (Ohio) Arts & Cultural District (MCAD) Artist Opportunity Grant, and has been a John E. Nance Writer in Residence at Thurber House (Columbus, Ohio). When not writing, Jess of course loves reading, but also spending time with family and friends, crocheting, watching film and television, swimming, spoiling her cats, baking, and occasionally hiking and fishing. Reach Jess via her website, www.jessmontgomeryauthor.com or her Facebook Author Page, @JessMontgomeryAuthorHow Do You Write Podcast: Explore the processes of working writers with bestselling author Rachael Herron. Want tips on how to write the book you long to finish? Here you'll gain insight from other writers on how to get in the chair, tricks to stay in it, and inspiration to get your own words flowing. Join Rachael's Slack channel, Onward Writers: https://join.slack.com/t/onwardwriters/shared_invite/zt-7a3gorfm-C15cTKh_47CEdWIBW~RKwgRachael can be YOUR mini-coach, and she’ll answer all your questions on the show! http://patreon.com/rachael Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 1, 2022 • 58min
Ep. 322: The Black Herron Episode 2
Please enjoy this chat between Rachael Herron and Sacha Black (of The Rebel Author Podcast). Irreverent, cheeky, business-focused and always honest, you’re going to love this. Get access to their chats a whole month early on Patreon! http://patreon.com/rachael Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 29, 2022 • 26min
Ep. 321: Bonus Episode - How to Write a Blurb that Hooks Your Reader
In this special bonus episode, Rachael talks about how to write a blurb that hooks a reader, how to write a twist that shocks, how to trust your gut, and when to consider foreign translations! This episode supported by Rachael’s patrons! THANK YOU! Rachael can be YOUR mini-coach, and she’ll answer all your questions on the show for just $5/month! http://patreon.com/rachael How Do You Write Podcast: Explore the processes of working writers with bestselling author Rachael Herron. Want tips on how to write the book you long to finish? Here you'll gain insight from other writers on how to get in the chair, tricks to stay in it, and inspiration to get your own words flowing. Join Rachael's Slack channel, Onward Writers: https://join.slack.com/t/onwardwriters/shared_invite/zt-7a3gorfm-C15cTKh_47CEdWIBW~RKwg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 16, 2022 • 29min
Ep. 320: Juno Dawson on How Love Can Change Everything
The page-turning first installment in an epic fantasy trilogy, HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL COVEN follows a group of childhood friends who are also witches—and members of a covert government department protecting the world from supernatural forces. Juno Dawson is a bestselling novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. Juno’s books include the global bestsellers, This Book is Gay and Clean. She also writes for television and has multiple shows in development both in the UK and US. An occasional actress and model, Juno appeared on HBO’s I May Destroy You. This is her adult debut.How Do You Write Podcast: Explore the processes of working writers with bestselling author Rachael Herron. Want tips on how to write the book you long to finish? Here you'll gain insight from other writers on how to get in the chair, tricks to stay in it, and inspiration to get your own words flowing. Join Rachael's Slack channel, Onward Writers: https://join.slack.com/t/onwardwriters/shared_invite/zt-7a3gorfm-C15cTKh_47CEdWIBW~RKwgRachael can be YOUR mini-coach, and she’ll answer all your questions on the show! http://patreon.com/rachael Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 8, 2022 • 40min
Ep. 319: Alana Quintana Albertson on How a Writer Gets a TV Deal
Alana Quintana Albertson has written thirty romance novels, rescued five-hundred death-row shelter dogs, and danced one thousand rumbas. She lives with her husband in sunny San Diego with her two sons and too many pets. Most days, she can be found writing her next heart book in a beachfront café while sipping an oat-milk Mexican mocha or gardening with her children in their backyard orchard and snacking on a juicy blood orange. RAMÓN AND JULIETA is her most recent release. How Do You Write Podcast: Explore the processes of working writers with bestselling author Rachael Herron. Want tips on how to write the book you long to finish? Here you'll gain insight from other writers on how to get in the chair, tricks to stay in it, and inspiration to get your own words flowing. Join Rachael's Slack channel, Onward Writers: https://join.slack.com/t/onwardwriters/shared_invite/zt-7a3gorfm-C15cTKh_47CEdWIBW~RKwgRachael can be YOUR mini-coach, and she’ll answer all your questions on the show! http://patreon.com/rachael Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 1, 2022 • 28min
Ep. 318: Tara T. Green on How to Claim Space for Your Work
Tara T. Green (she/her) is professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina where she teaches literature and gender studies courses. She is the author of Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson (Bloomsbury 2022), See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure During the Interwar Era (Rutgers UP, 2022), Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song, (Ohio State UP, 2018) A Fatherless Child: Autobiographical Perspectives of African American Men (University of Missouri Press, 2009). For more information, see drtaratgreen.com.How Do You Write Podcast: Explore the processes of working writers with bestselling author Rachael Herron. Want tips on how to write the book you long to finish? Here you'll gain insight from other writers on how to get in the chair, tricks to stay in it, and inspiration to get your own words flowing. Join Rachael's Slack channel, Onward Writers: https://join.slack.com/t/onwardwriters/shared_invite/zt-7a3gorfm-C15cTKh_47CEdWIBW~RKwgRachael can be YOUR mini-coach, and she’ll answer all your questions on the show! http://patreon.com/rachael Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 1, 2022 • 47min
Ep. 317: The Black Herron Episode 1 (Bonus Episode!)
Please enjoy the very first chat that Rachael Herron and Sacha Black (of The Rebel Author Podcast) have together. Irreverent, cheeky, and always honest, you’re going to love this. Get access to their chats a whole month early on Patreon! http://patreon.com/rachael Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 25, 2022 • 40min
Ep. 316: Sarah McCraw Crow on How to Deal with Shiny Object Syndrome
Sarah McCraw Crow is the author of the novel The Wrong Kind of Woman (Mira/HarperCollins). Her short fiction has run in Calyx, Crab Orchard Review, Good Housekeeping, and Stanford Alumni Magazine, and she’s a regular book reviewer for BookPage. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Stanford University, and Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA), and she lives with her family on an old farm in New Hampshire.How Do You Write Podcast: Explore the processes of working writers with bestselling author Rachael Herron. Want tips on how to write the book you long to finish? Here you'll gain insight from other writers on how to get in the chair, tricks to stay in it, and inspiration to get your own words flowing. Join Rachael's Slack channel, Onward Writers: https://join.slack.com/t/onwardwriters/shared_invite/zt-7a3gorfm-C15cTKh_47CEdWIBW~RKwgRachael can be YOUR mini-coach, and she’ll answer all your questions on the show! http://patreon.com/rachael Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.