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Episode 114 – Writing and the Akashic Records

During this episode of Diving into Writing, Mariëlle explains what the Akashic Records are and how they can help writers and does an Akashic Records reading for Lucinda to help her through some her writing-related blocks.

For those who want to get their own Akashic Records reading, Mariëlle offers a limited number of free readings until the end of the year. To claim your spot, please follow the link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MFIY2B3fp7y3XNBiyOEoN6TYkrtDcbYTUe6-xW-mbkY/edit?usp=sharing

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Episode 113 – Coming Back to Writing

On this episode of Diving into Writing, Mariëlle and Lucinda talk about their writing journeys and how they kept coming back to it over the years.

Here are some of the topics that came up:

  • How Lucinda always knew she was going to write but didn’t actually start writing until she was in her early forties. It took her another year before she started taking her writing seriously.
  • Mariëlle started writing much younger but kept it a secret until she was twenty-eight. Only after learning about indie publishing did she start to take her writing utterly seriously. 
  • Mariëlle learning about Lucinda’s published fan fiction and why that excites her to no end.

You can find Lucinda’s dive into fan fiction here: https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Oriceran-Universe-Fans-Write/dp/1642021296

You can find Marielle’s upcoming Kickstarter campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mswordsmith/tarotforentrepreneurs

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Episode 112 – How to be You in Community

After three weeks of not speaking to each other, Mariëlle and Lucinda catch up on their lives in this episode and talk about the balance between belonging to community and staying true to yourself.

Here are some of the topics that came up:

  • How Mariëlle and Lucinda are both struggling with time flying by
  • The delicate dance between allowing yourself grace and kicking yourself in the arse
  • How Lucinda is still struggling to make space for her writing and Mariëlle with doing the same for her mental health
  • How becoming and being part of any community is so much easier when you’re aware of your own needs and are confident about how you see things first

You can find Marielle’s upcoming Kickstarter campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mswordsmith/tarotforentrepreneurs

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Episode 111 – Don’t give up your day job

In this week’s episode, Mariëlle and Lucinda talk about the many reasons NOT to quit your day job as a writer.

Here are some of the topics that came up:

  • Why Mariëlle and Lucinda are both keen on keeping their day jobs
  • Why having and keeping a day job can be beneficial to your writing
  • Plenty of known authors had day jobs while already being published, and some continued to keep some sort of day job even after becoming successful 
  • Many authors have multiple income streams based on their writing, meaning they don’t ‘just write’ the whole day either

You can find Marielle’s upcoming Kickstarter campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mswordsmith/tarotforentrepreneurs

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Episode 110 – Spring Venting

In this week’s episode, Mariëlle and Lucinda each have a little vent about how they’ve been doing since the last time they recorded. 

Here are some of the topics that came up:

  • Lucinda has started playing around with her writing again, which has led to new ideas and bursts of inspiration
  • Mariëlle’s been feeling overwhelmed for different reasons and she’s still in the ‘no one’s waiting for this’ phase; but, she IS writing daily and she’s – for the first time in her life – set on writing 50k words by the end of Camp NaNoWriMo April
  • Both Lucinda and Mariëlle set the intention to keep on having as much fun as they can with whatever they’re working on right now

You can find Marielle’s upcoming Kickstarter campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mswordsmith/tarotforentrepreneurs

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Episode 109 – How to Deal with Overwhelm

In this week’s episode, Mariëlle and Lucinda talk about overwhelm and how they (try to) deal with it.

Here are some of the topics that came up:

  • The differences between dealing with overwhelm at the day job and in your writing life
  • The importance of to-do lists and prioritising the items on said list
  • That Lucinda and Mariëlle relate to time differently, and how they both end up overwhelmed by it
  • Mariëlle having found her limit when it comes to the length of her to-do lists
  • How they both handle wanting to do to much at the same time
  • Why it’s necessary to remind yourself why you’ve put an item on your to-do list to begin with

You can find Marielle’s upcoming Kickstarter campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mswordsmith/tarotforentrepreneurs

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Episode 108 – The one where Lucinda and Mariëlle try to talk about fear

The topic picked for this week’s episode was ‘fears around being unique’. As you will hear, this turned out to be a particularly hard topic to talk about—both Lucinda and Marielle kept circling the topic, talking about anything and everything related to this particular fear without actually facing the topic directly 😉

You can find Marielle’s upcoming Kickstarter campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mswordsmith/tarotforentrepreneurs

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Episode 107 – How to Keep Going

In this week’s episode, Mariëlle and Lucinda talk about how to keep going when the going gets tough.

Here are some of the topics that came up:

  • Lucinda’s been struggling to prioritise her writing time – but talking about it reminded her how much she loves writing, and how much it is a part of her
  • Mariëlle’s currently in the ‘no one’s waiting for this’ phase of both her novel and non-fiction project, and she realised while recording just how deep-seated her imposter syndrome really is
  • That habits can be both a blessing and a curse, and that we need to remain somewhat flexible around them.

You can find Marielle’s upcoming Kickstarter campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mswordsmith/tarotforentrepreneurs

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Episode 105 – Finding the Courage to Collaborate

In this week’s episode, Lucinda and Mariëlle talk about their experiences (and fears!) around collaborating with others.

Here are some of the topics that came up:

  • Mariëlle’s fears around collaboration and where she thinks these may be coming from
  • That Lucinda has been very ‘lucky’ in her picking of collaborators because she’s never had a bad experience
  • Collaborating with friends
  • The importance of making sure you gel with someone before you start collaborating
  • Why making up contracts, even when collaborating with a friend, can be highly useful
  • That, sometimes, you just have to take the chance and see where you end up

During the recording, Mariëlle kept feeling she was talking in circles, but right after we stopped recording, she had a major revelation about her current fear around collaboration and where it came from exactly! It goes to show that, sometimes, you just need to talk through something, prod at it from different angles, to arrive at that vital aha! moment 😉

 

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