On being okay with not knowing (it's part of being human), on listening to dreams, and on "overhearing" your book. Enjoy!

Lauren Aliza Green is a novelist, poet, and musician. Her debut novel, The World After Alice, is out now from Viking (US) and Penguin Michael Joseph (UK). Her chapbook, A Great Dark House, won the Poetry Society of America's Chapbook Fellowship. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Lit Hub, Virginia Quarterly Review, Threepenny Review, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. Other recognitions include the Eavan Boland Award, sponsored by Poetry Ireland and Stanford University, and a spot on Forbes' 2024 30 Under 30 list.

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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.

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💥 90 Days to Done - WRITE YOUR BOOK!

📚 90 Day Revision!

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📅 Rachael Says Plan! Plan with me!

📝 Rachael Says Write! Write with me!

📙 Publish Your Book!

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➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book

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Rachael and Sacha chat about her monumental Kickstarter and how it feels, emotionally (answer: weird!) as well as Rachael’s new book idea.

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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!

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➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book

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On earning the heightened moments in your writing. Also, you don't have to be writing to be writing!

Julie Leong is a Chinese Malaysian American fantasy author who grew up across both New Jersey and Beijing, China. She studied economics and political science at Yale and works in tech, but she has always nurtured a deep love for sci-fi/fantasy beneath her corporate exterior. Julie lives in San Francisco with her husband, their rescue pup, and a magical Meyer lemon tree in the backyard that somehow always has ripe lemons. When she’s not writing, she enjoys making unnecessary spreadsheets and flambéing things. The Teller of Small Fortunes is her debut novel.

🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE!

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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How to go from feeling your way through a story to actually knowing a bit about it before you start! Also - what does a cat have to do with kindness?

Ann Rose is a typical Taurus—loyal but stubborn, which means being an author is perfect. While asking the private group chat for ideas on what to include in this bio, Ann was reminded that some of her greatest qualities are her awesome best friends from high school—a fact she couldn’t argue with. She loves dark chocolate, sarcasm, her family, tacos, and her cats—obviously not in that order. Ann also writes young adult novels under the pen name A.M. Rose. The Seemingly Impossible Love Life of Amanda Dean is her most recent novel.

🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE!

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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On being unapologetic about investing in yourself as a writer! Rachael and Rebekah also talk about the value of friends, and about writing being alive, never stagnant!

Rebekah Faubion is the author of THE LOVERS, a Nora Ephron-style, sapphic rom-com coming Summer 2024 from Berkley. She is also the author of young adult horror novel LOST GIRLS coming from Delacorte Press in 2026. When she isn’t writing books that make her bi soul sing, she enjoys watching anything romantic or scary (or, better yet, both), hiking in the Hollywood Hills, and reading tarot by candlelight.

🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE!

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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Using an editor AS you're writing! Don't miss this conversation about something people often wonder about but rarely talk about!

May Cobb is an award-winning author of The Hunting Wives, My Summer Darlings, A Likeable Woman, and Big Woods. Her books have received attention from Book of The Month, The Today Show, and Oprah Daily and have been optioned for film/TV. She has an M.A. from San Francisco State University and her essays and interviews have appeared in The Washington Post and Good Housekeeping. She currently lives in Austin with her family. Her novel The Hunting Wives is soon to be a series on STARZ. The Hollywood Assistant is her most recent novel.

🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE!

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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Please enjoy this episode of The Black Herron with Sacha Black and Rachael Herron!

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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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On how to quit imposter syndrome (yes, it’s doable!) and on giving voice to the inanimate - you’ll love this episode!

Lynne Thompson served as Los Angeles’ fourth Poet Laureate, 2021-2022. Thompson is the author of four collections of poetry, Beg No Pardon, Start With A Small Guitar, Fretwork, and most recently, Blue on a Blue Palette. She serves on the Boards of Cave Canem, Poetry Foundation, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Scripps College which she lead as Board Chair, 2018-2022. Her work can be found in the Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, and Pleiades, among others.

🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE!

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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