Episodes

  • The Annual MONEY Episode!
    Jan 9 2025

    The most popular episode every year - check out what Rachael made in 2024 and how she made it! Also, what will she be changing, adapting, doing in 2025? Her words of the year are Sparkle and Bloom, so that's a hint.


    ❤️ Adventure 52 - Patreon


    🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE!


    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?

    💥 90 Days to Done - WRITE YOUR BOOK!

    📚 90 Day Revision!

    🪑 Join Onward Writer Slack!

    📅 Rachael Says Plan! Plan with me!

    📝 Rachael Says Write! Write with me!

    📙 Publish Your Book!

    ❓ I'll Answer Your Questions on Air!


    EXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITERS:

    ➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book



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    40 mins
  • On the Utter Joy of Having Homework Forever, with Elisabeth Sharp McKetta
    Jan 2 2025

    This is an interview you will LOVE, start to finish. Get ready to be overjoyed.


    Elisabeth Sharp McKetta is an award-winning writer and writing teacher and a mother of two. With a PhD on the intersections between fairy tales and autobiography, as well as a seven-year streak of writing weekly poems for strangers, she teaches writing for Oxford Department for Continuing Education and for Harvard Extension School, where she won their highest teaching award. She has authored thirteen books, most recently the personal growth guide Edit Your Life, based on the experience of living three years in a 275-square foot backyard guest house with her family of four (five, if you count the Labrador)—and the middle grade novel Ark, set during the pandemic and described by Kirkus Reviews as “infectiously hopeful.” Elisabeth co-edited the anthology What Doesn’t Kill Her: Women’s Stories of Resilience, which Gloria Steinem described as stories that “will help each of us to trust and tell our own.” Her poetry and short work have been published widely, including in The Poetry Review and Real Simple; her work with myth and memoir has been spotlighted in Harvard Magazine. Elisabeth and her family call Boise home and travel widely. (elisabethsharpmcketta.com)


    ❤️ Adventure 52 - Patreon


    🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE!


    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?

    💥 90 Days to Done - WRITE YOUR BOOK!

    📚 90 Day Revision!

    🪑 Join Onward Writer Slack!

    📅 Rachael Says Plan! Plan with me!

    📝 Rachael Says Write! Write with me!

    📙 Publish Your Book!

    ❓ I'll Answer Your Questions on Air!


    EXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITERS:

    ➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    46 mins
  • The Black Herron 28 (plus update!)
    Dec 30 2024

    Let's plan for the new year with Sacha and Rachael!


    ❤️ Adventure 52 - Patreon - http://patreon.com/rachael


    ✏️ Write More, Worry Less: A Year of Pressure-Free Productivity

    Jan 4, 2025 - CLICK HERE for the details! Don't miss the early-bird pricing, good till Dec 10th!


    🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE!


    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?

    💥 90 Days to Done - WRITE YOUR BOOK!

    📚 90 Day Revision!

    🪑 Join Onward Writer Slack!

    📅 Rachael Says Plan! Plan with me!

    📝 Rachael Says Write! Write with me!

    📙 Publish Your Book!

    ❓ I'll Answer Your Questions on Air!


    EXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITERS:

    ➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • How to Build the Support You Want with Heidi McIntyre
    Dec 19 2024

    Support — who needs it? You do! How to get it (and how to hold open space for your writing, too).


    Heidi McIntyre’s journey as a writer began in college when a professor convinced her to switch majors to English, igniting her passion for storytelling. With a background in marketing consulting, Heidi spent years specializing in fresh produce, collaborating with growers, commodity boards, and industry associations to elevate their brands. Today, she channels her expertise into helping authors as a Book Marketing Coach. Heidi self-published her debut novel, Sea Magic, in 2023, which is the first in a women’s paranormal fiction series. She lives in Oviedo, Florida, with her husband, Tim, and their two dogs, Pumpkin and Lizzie. She loves coffee, chocolate, yoga and visiting historical places. Find her at heidimcintyre.com/coach


    Rachael on The Write it Scared Podcast


    ✏️ Write More, Worry Less: A Year of Pressure-Free Productivity

    Jan 4, 2025 - CLICK HERE for the details!


    🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE!


    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?

    💥 90 Days to Done - WRITE YOUR BOOK!

    📚 90 Day Revision!

    🪑 Join Onward Writer Slack!

    📅 Rachael Says Plan! Plan with me!

    📝 Rachael Says Write! Write with me!

    📙 Publish Your Book!

    ❓ I'll Answer Your Questions on Air!


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    48 mins
  • The Power of Trimming Down Your Work, with Kate Mahony
    Dec 12 2024

    Rachael’s back from swimming with the turtles - catch up with her today. And how does a writer move from flash to longer work? Find out with Kate!


    Kate Mahony is a long-time writer of short stories and flash fiction with an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka. Her work has been published in anthologies and literary journals. Her debut novel, Secrets of the Land, published by Cloud Ink Press was voted onto the Whitcoulls Bookstores Top 100 Books 2024-2025. She lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington) in Aotearoa New Zealand.


    ✏️ Write More, Worry Less: A Year of Pressure-Free Productivity

    Jan 4, 2025 - CLICK HERE for the details!

    Don't miss the early-bird pricing, good till Dec 10th!


    🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE!


    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?

    💥 90 Days to Done - WRITE YOUR BOOK!

    📚 90 Day Revision!

    🪑 Join Onward Writer Slack!

    📅 Rachael Says Plan! Plan with me!

    📝 Rachael Says Write! Write with me!

    📙 Publish Your Book!

    ❓ I'll Answer Your Questions on Air!


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    29 mins
  • The Black Herron 27
    Nov 30 2024

    Rachael's landing book planes and Sacha's cleaning up after an incredibly successful Kickstarter! Enjoy!


    🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE!


    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?

    💥 90 Days to Done - WRITE YOUR BOOK!

    📚 90 Day Revision!

    🪑 Join Onward Writer Slack!

    📅 Rachael Says Plan! Plan with me!

    📝 Rachael Says Write! Write with me!

    📙 Publish Your Book!

    ❓ I'll Answer Your Questions on Air!


    EXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITERS:

    ➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    47 mins
  • Writing an Identity Not Your Own, with Alex Temblador
    Nov 28 2024

    How to write an identity not your own! Also: on inhabiting your character, on easy reading being damned hard writing, on grounding the reader in a scene, and expecting that you WILL make mistakes (and that's okay.)


    Alex Temblador is the Mixed Latine award-winning author of Writing An Identity Not Your Own, Secrets of the Casa Rosada and Half Outlaw. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Oklahoma and is a contributor to Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology. Her work has also appeared in PALABRITAS, D Magazine, and Colorado Review. Alex has taught creative writing seminars, workshops, and classes with the Women's Fiction Writers Association, WritingWorkshops.com, the Writer's League of Texas, and more, as well as spoken about diversity in the literary world with Macmillan, Texas Library Association, Abydos Learning Conference, and at many other festivals, conferences, and universities.


    Links mentioned:


    ✏️ Write More, Worry Less: A Year of Pressure-Free Productivity

    Jan 4, 2025 - CLICK HERE for the details!

    Don't miss the early-bird pricing, good till Dec 10th!


    NZ Ahead with Liz and Brian


    Story Magic - Lower Your Expectations


    🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE!


    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?

    💥 90 Days to Done - WRITE YOUR BOOK!

    📚 90 Day Revision!

    🪑 Join Onward Writer Slack!

    📅 Rachael Says Plan! Plan with me!

    📝 Rachael Says Write! Write with me!

    📙 Publish Your Book!

    ❓ I'll Answer Your Questions on Air!


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    51 mins
  • On Slowing Down Hurry Mode with Nicole Meier
    Nov 21 2024

    On zooming out to look at character interiority and having scene goals, as well as slowing down the hurry mode. Enjoy!


    Nicole Meier is an author and book coach living in the Pacific Northwest. Her debut novel, The House of Bradbury, was chosen as a Best Book of 2016 by Refinery29. Her second book, The Girl Made of Clay, was named a Top Book according to Bookbub readers. The Second Chance Supper Club, was named a Best New Book 2019 by Popsugar. Her fourth novel, City of Books, is out now. Nicole is the host of the Steps to Story podcast and a certified book coach and developmental editor working to help fiction writers bring their stories to life. Find her at nicolemeier.com or on Instagram @nicolemeierwrites


    🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE!


    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?

    💥 90 Days to Done - WRITE YOUR BOOK!

    📚 90 Day Revision!

    🪑 Join Onward Writer Slack!

    📅 Rachael Says Plan! Plan with me!

    📝 Rachael Says Write! Write with me!

    📙 Publish Your Book!

    ❓ I'll Answer Your Questions on Air!



    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    35 mins