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Hosted by Dr Rachel Knightley · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 115 episodes
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Build creative confidence and beat the inspiration addiction with Dr Rachel Knightley. Every episode, we’ll discuss key writing topics while exploring the goals, exercises, tools and techniques to discover what you really want from your writing — and what your writing really needs from you.
Dr Rachel Knightley hosts The Writers’ Gym Podcast, a arts show with 115 episodes published.
Dr Caroline Sharples, author and historian Dr Rachel Knightley is joined at the Writers' Gym by non-fiction author and senior lecturer, Dr Caroline Sharples. Dr Caroline Sharples is a historian of modern Germany, with lo
Rachel explores the link between creativity and anxiety: how the fears we write in our own minds can be used to propel us towards the things we want to create. Meaning we can learn not just more about what we can handle,
Showing up in the public sphere can feel overwhelming, but by noticing the messaging inside our heads, we start to enjoy showing up one authentic thing at a time. If you enjoyed listening to the Writers' Gym Podcast, hea
Graham Bartlett, bestselling fiction and non-fiction author Dr Rachel Knightley is joined at the Writers' Gym by ex homicide detective, crime writing mentor and bestselling crime author GrahamBartlett. After thirty years
Victoria Dowd, bestselling crime writer and Vice Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association Dr Rachel Knightley is joined at the Writers' Gym by prize and award-winning author, Victoria Dowd. Victoria is the award-winning a
What’s the most damaging advice you’ve ever received as a writer? Dr Rachel Knightley reflects on what the wrong and right ‘shoulds’ can do to our ability to make time for our writing and ourselves, and how to take contr
Dr Rachel Knightley’s guest at the Writers’ Gym this episode is award-winning author Nathan Newman. Nathan is a novelist and filmmaker based in London. Their short stories have won awards, including the James Knudsen Pri
Showing up for yourself and sharing your achievements can be scary, but instead of waiting for the feelings to change we can shift the focus to action that empowers. If you enjoyed listening to the Writers' Gym Podcast,
Lucy Kate Barnes, Trustee and Co-Founder of Lawyers Who Care Dr Rachel Knightley’s guest at the Writers’ Gym is her coaching client, award-winning advocate Lucy Kate Barnes. Lucy grew up on council estates. She went into
Rachel shares how a common phrase helps us cut through what we fear and focus on what we want — instead of getting caught up in unhelpful ‘what-ifs’ that suppress the creative ones. If you enjoyed listening to the Writer
Helen Marshall, multi-award-winning author and academic Dr Rachel Knightley is joined at the Writers' Gym by World Fantasy and British Fantasy Award winning author, Dr Helen Marshall. Helen is an Associate Professor of C
Most of us are looking for more time. But what if instead of looking for more of it, we first look at our beliefs around how we ‘should’ use the time we already have? Dr Rachel Knightley offers thoughts and strategies ar
Dr Rachel's Knightley's guest is Ramsey Campbell, defined by The Oxford Companion to English Literature as “Britain’s most respected living horror writer”. The Washington Post sums up his work as “one of the monumental a
If you’re getting distracted or put off from writing, it might just be you’re spending more time in the ‘what-does-this-say-about-me’ fog than in the idea at its centre: to write your story, and to discover what that sto
Dr Rachel Knightley draws an the Excuses Bingo card she and members of the Writers’ Gym created in a recent workshop, and works through how each of these ‘reasons’ not to write might just contain a reminder of why we rea
Dr Rachel Knightley is joined at the Writers' Gym by Emmy award winning script-writer, novelist and director Doug Naylor. He co-created the long running hugely successful sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf, has written or co-writte
Dr Rachel Knightley is joined at the Writers' Gym by Lee Murray ONZM (Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit) . Lee is a writer, editor, poet and screenwriter from Aotearoa New Zealand, a Shirley Jackson Award and fiv
What do the words we really hate, really want to tell us? Dr Rachel Knightley takes the word that annoys her the most and spends time listening to what it might have wanted to tell her – and what listening to it might me
Multi-award-winning novelist Lavie Tidhar is Dr Rachel Knightley's guest on the Writers' Gym Podcast. Lavie’s work encompasses literary fiction (Maror, Adama, Golgotha and Six Lives), cross-genre classics such as Jerwood
One thing at a time, or freedom to flip between? What system of working really summons your creativity and what gets in the way? Dr Rachel Knightley wants to hear from you.
Helen Marshall
multi-award-winning author and academic · Primal Alternative
1 appearance on this show
Doug Naylor
1 appearance on this show
Jenny Rogers
author, executive coach, supervisor, trainer
1 appearance on this show
Victoria Dowd
Crime Writers’ Association
1 appearance on this show
Lucy Kate Barnes
Lawyers Who Care
1 appearance on this show
Kayleigh Dobbs
Happy Goat Horror
1 appearance on this show
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