The Aspiring Authors Podcast

Episode 10 Writing The Love Interest Aspiring Authors Podcast

This week we're talking about the love interest, how we decide what traits the love interest will have, do we base them on people we know, if their appearance is important and we look at fairytales on how the love interest is written. 

We also give our own tips for creating the love interest....

L&H 

Episode 9 - Writing Characters & The Protagonist Aspiring Authors Podcast

This week we talk about how we plan a character, how do we get inspired for creating a character and what our process is to work out each character.  We share our tips on how to create characters, discuss the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator and give this week's recommendations.

L&H x

Episode 8 How We Edit Aspiring Authors Podcast

This week we chat about our editing process, starting from the first draft.  We talk about different ways of editing, our struggles and what we love about it.  It's a slow process, but we share our tips on how we try to tackle editing and give our recommendations of what we're listening to this week.

L&H x

Episode 7 - Covid19 & Writers Block Aspiring Authors Podcast

We talk about the uncertain times we face in the middle of the pandemic.  Feelings of anxiety and stress may be upon you, making you struggle to concentrate.  We chat about what is happening in our lives during this time, but we are looking to the positive ways of using this time to write.  

Sending love out to everyone, Lorna & Hayley x

Episode 6 - How We Create & Plot A Story The Aspiring Authors Podcast

We talk and share how we come up with an idea, how we adapt on it and write the story.  We discuss our process on plotting, covering 3 act structure and Plotters versus Pantsers.  We share helpful tips and recommendations for fellow aspiring authors 

Episode 5 - Our Writing Routines The Aspiring Authors Podcast

We chat about our writing routines in our hectic lives and how we make time to write.

We share our habits of when we write, where we write, and all the other good stuff in between!

Lorna & Hayley x

Episode 4 - Fear & Self Doubt Aspiring Authors Podcast

We bare our souls and talk about our fears.  A daunting topic, but an important one to discuss - finding the route cause of our insecurities and lack of confidence.  We have a frank (and silly) chat about self doubt, covering various topics like the class system, gender and nationality!

Episode 3 Nanowrimo Aspiring Authors Podcast

In this episode we chat about Nanowrimo and the aftermath of it.  Discussing how we discovered Nano, how we prepped for it and what we are doing with our novels now after taking part in Nanowrimo.  Informal chat between two Aspiring Author friends Lorna and Hayley.

Episode 2 - Writing Goals - Aspiring Authors Podcast

Join us for a chat on what our writing goals are for this year!  The goal of being published may seem over ambitious?  But we'll give it a good go! Covering areas of procrastination, trying not to punish ourselves for not writing and juggling busy schedules in order to achieve our goals and dreams. 

Lorna and Hayley x

Introduction Hello!

Two friends have an informal chat about trying to make it as writers.  Our first podcast is an introduction to who we are and what to expect from this podcast.  A bit of fun, a bit of silly - come along for the journey as we try to make it as authors!