434 episodes

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)
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Ink in Your Veins Rachael Herron

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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.

    434 | Getting Unstuck with Carter Wilson

    434 | Getting Unstuck with Carter Wilson

    On letting go and trusting your instincts to get unstuck, bonus episode with Carter Wilson!
    Carter Wilson is the USA Today bestselling author of nine critically acclaimed, standalone psychological thrillers, as well as numerous short stories. He is an ITW Thriller Award finalist, a five-time winner of the Colorado Book Award, and his works have been optioned for television and film. Additionally, he is the host of the Making It Up podcast and founder of the Unbound Writer company, which provides coaching services, writing retreats, and online classes. Carter lives in Erie, Colorado in a Victorian house that is spooky but isn’t haunted…yet.
    Here's Rachael's Kickstarter, 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?
    💥 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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    • 22 min
    433 | Getting Unstuck with Jason Craig Poole

    433 | Getting Unstuck with Jason Craig Poole

    Special bonus episode with Jason (The Man With the Amazing Toolbox) Poole, who talks about mis-categorizing feelings of excitement with Rachael as they chat about getting unstuck! 
    Jason Craig Poole is a prize-winning poet, teacher and musician. His work has appeared in Paterson Literary Review, Brevity Blog, Molecule and other publications. His story and music are featured in the documentary, Sons of Hālawa. When he’s not climbing the monkey bars at the playground with his son, he’s pursuing an MFA in writing in the Poetry Program at Pacific University. He lives with his family in New Jersey in a little house near the big hill.
    Here's Rachael's Kickstarter, 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?
    💥 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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    • 16 min
    432 | Getting Unstuck with Ines Johnson

    432 | Getting Unstuck with Ines Johnson

    Another special bonus episode, this time with the amazing and SUPER inspiring Ines Johnson! 
    Lover of fairytales, folklore, and mythology, Ines Johnson spends her days reimagining the stories of old in a modern world. She also writes sweet western romances under the pen name Shanae Johnson. Aside from being a writer, professional reader, and teacher, Ines is a very bad Buddhist. She sits in sangha each week, and while others are meditating and getting their zen on, she’s contemplating how to use the teachings to strengthen her plots and character motivations.Ines lives outside Washington, DC with her two little sidekicks who are growing up way too fast.
    Grab her Romance Map!
    Here's Rachael's Kickstarter, Unstuck! Click there for unstuck coaching (this won't come available again anytime soon).
    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.

    • 20 min
    431 | Getting Unstuck with Jennie Nash

    431 | Getting Unstuck with Jennie Nash

    Getting unstuck in a BIG way with Jennie Nash, in which Jennie is brave AF, moving forward with beautiful integrity. If you’re stuck? Listen to this one. 
    Jennie Nash is the founder and CEO of Author Accelerator, a company on a mission to lead the emerging book coaching industry with rigorous training, high standards for certification, and ongoing support for coaches while they launch and build their businesses. Jennie’s own clients have landed top agents, six-figure book deals, and spots on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. She is the author of 12 books in 3 genres, including her latest: Blueprint for a Memoir: How to Write a Memoir for the Marketplace.
    Here's Rachael's Kickstarter, Unstuck! Click there for unstuck coaching (this won't come available again anytime soon).
    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.

    • 25 min
    430 | Getting Unstuck with Toby Neal

    430 | Getting Unstuck with Toby Neal

    Award-winning, USA Today bestselling social worker turned crime novelist Toby Neal grew up on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. Neal is a mental health therapist, a career that has informed the depth and complexity of the characters in her stories. Neal also writes romance under Toby Jane. Toby's memoir, Freckled: a Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii, has been widely praised. Kirkus calls Freckled, "an affecting and riveting chronicle...in a Hawaii long lost." She writes memoirs under TW Neal. 
    Here's Rachael's Kickstarter, 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?
    💥 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.

    • 14 min
    429 | Getting Unstuck with J. Thorn

    429 | Getting Unstuck with J. Thorn

    Ride along as Rachael's mind gets BLOWN by J. Thorn talking about luck.
    J. Thorn has published more than two million words and has sold over 200,000 books worldwide since 2009. He has been an official member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers, and is currently a member of the Horror Writers Association. Thorn earned a B.A. in American History from the University of Pittsburgh and a M.A. from Duquesne University. He is a husband, father, writer, and educator, most recently teaching entrepreneurship at John Carroll University. J. impersonates a cynical Gen Xer while secretly believing we’re all gonna make it. Like, whatever.
    Book rec: Thinking in Bets, Annie Duke
    Here's Rachael's Kickstarter, 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?
    💥 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.

    • 15 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
136 Ratings

136 Ratings

Writer Di ,

Amazing podcast for writers

There are so few successful writers who are willing to pull back the curtain on the writing life, so I feel very grateful to Rachael for doing just that. Guests are working writers who reveal personal specifics about habits, struggles and best practices. There are also solo episodes (my fave) where Rachael answers listeners’ questions. These are basically mini-masterclasses.

scifiwrito ,

Love this Podcast

Rachael has created an important and comforting window to the process of writing with this podcast. I’m a longtime listener, and still with every guest learn something new and helpful. It’s also fun to follow her journey through this career.

Shan in SoCal ,

One of my favorites!

I am a huge fan of the How Do You Write podcast. I’m fascinated by process and how people do things to get where they need to go.
I like the host’s style of delivery and speaking voice and have greatly enjoyed the variety of guests she’s had in the show. I have found quite a few new to me authors and books through these interviews.
Thank you!

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