The Writing Apothecary Podcast

Dec 05 2024 52 ep. 20 mins 7
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A podcast about tips, tricks and hacks on all things writing with your host Mandi Kontos - a writer, writing mindset coach and self published author. Each month we tackle a different topic to do with writing and follow it up with a chat with a guest who will put things into perspective and finish off the topic. The Writing Apothecary is the podcast to help you understand the different layers of a novel, one topic at a time.

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The Writing Process with Sarah L Richhelm

Dec 05 2024 34 mins  
Send us a textWelcome to Writing Apothecary and the next interview as we chat about the writing process.Today's chat is with a return guest, Sarah L Richhelm, who appeared on our Plot interview. It was great to have her back and chat about her process and how she liked editing...Official Bio:Sarah is a serial cookie-in-tea dunker and Spotify playlist curator and adores writing slow

The Writing Process with Monique Kostalec

Sep 23 2024 72 mins  
Send us a textWelcome to Writing Apothecary and the next interview as we chat about the writing process. Today's chat is with fellow creative entrepreneur Monique Kostelec. We chat about her process and how she loves almost every part of the process. Official Bio: At 18, Monique was adamant that she would be the next Amal Clooney. As it turned out, she was more suited for the path

My Writing Process

Jun 12 2024 27 mins  
Send us a textWelcome back to The Writing Apothecary Podcast - and a side quest if you must - about Writing Process and the way that every author does it differently. I can't wait for youto dig into this. The same bite sized episodic format is back. To kick off the first episode you get to see a BTS all about my own writing process. I've broken down the questions that I ask my gues

Fight Scenes: Interview with Fantasy Author Caroline Logan

Mar 31 2024 46 mins  
Send us a textWelcome back to The Writing Apothecary and to our interview for the topic. Caroline and I dive deep into the all things fight scenes and how to better your writing of them. In today's chat here are some of the things we covered:What defines a fighting scene?The kinds of fighting scenes.The language of fighting scenes.Caroline's take on all things fighting scenes. Abou

Fight Scenes: The Battlefield

Dec 19 2023 19 mins  
Send us a textWelcome back to The Writing Apothecary and our next lesson on Fight scenes. We're looking at the emotional battlefield and how it can affect your character. We're covering:Depths of Fighting ScenesWhat is needed from the scenesWhat it takes to make the battlefield work.Tell me what did you take away from this week's lesson? I'd love to knowAlso, I would really appreci

Fight Scenes: Emotional Battles

Sep 14 2023 19 mins  
Send us a textWelcome back to The Writing Apothecary and our next lesson on Fight scenes. We're looking at the emotional battlefield and how it can affect your character. We're covering:Character motivesGoing back to basicsInternal ConflictExternal ConflictEmotional triggersTell me what did you take away from this week's lesson? I'd love to knowAlso, I would really appreciate it if

Welcome to Fight Scenes

Jun 23 2023 14 mins  
Send us a textWelcome back to a episode and a new topic. The next two months we're exploring Fight Scenes and we have a great guest to top it all off. Fight scenes have always been a challenge for a lot of people, myself included, and we're going to explore two side of fight scenes:Emotional Fight ScenesAction Fight ScenesI'm so excited to get into the topics and explore what it lo

Creativity and The Muse: Interview with Creativity Mentor Viv Kruckow

Jun 09 2023 60 mins  
Send us a textWelcome back to The Writing Apothecary and to our interview for the topic. Viv and I dive deep into creativity with an amazing chat to get you into the mood to sit your arse down and create. In today's chat here are some of the things we covered:Creativity Human DesignSupporting yourselfMorning pagesAbout Viv:In this current season, Viv Kruckow’s soul purpose is fol

Creativity and The Muse: Creativity

May 25 2023 24 mins  
Send us a textWelcome back to The Writing Apothecary and our last lesson before our amazing chat with our great guest. I’m so excited to talk about Creativity and I’m going to preface this by saying that the best information that you can find is actually a Wikipedia page on Creativity, I’ll link it in the show notes because it’s so good. And I know, I know it’s a wiki pag

Creativity and the Muse: The History of the Muse

May 11 2023 11 mins  
Send us a textWelcome back to The Writing Apothecary and to a new lesson. Today we're looking at the history of the muse. And it was so much fun to go through and find what information I could about them. The Muses are inspirational goddess of literature, science and art. The 9 muses are:Calliope was the Muse who represented epic poetry. Her implement was the writing tablet.Clio wa