Melissa Bourbon ~ A Thread of Magic in Every Story
& the Writer Spark Academy
A fantastical thread through every mystery with serendipitous finds from daily life inspires the best-selling author Melissa Bourbon. Also writing as Winnie Archer, she has several series, including the Book Magic series, Magical Dressmaking series, and the Bread Shop series.
Paying it forward, Melissa also has the Writer Spark
Academy, with a blog and resources on a website and several courses on
Teachable, the best place for self-paced and recursive learning online.
Her advice and inspiration is “Write the best book you want
to read.”
Timings
- 0:03 Opening, with intros to her three main series
- 8:10 Starting a novel, with the focus on her Bibliomancy series
- 9:35 (Branding) the magical thread in all of her series
- 10:30 Melissa’s publishing journey
- 15:45 Idea to Publication: Melissa’s writing process
- 19:15 A Hybrid of pantster and plotter
- 19:48 Maintaining Productivity
- 20:30 the Writer Spark Academy
- 21:45 Melissa’s daily schedule
- 22:40 more on the Writer Spark Academy: website and Teachable courses
- 25:50 WSA example: Field Guide to Writing a Cozy Mystery
- 27:24 importance of recursive learning and Teachable’s model
- 29:00 workbooks for the WSA courses
- 32:38 Craft Chats on YouTube
- 33:50 Best Tool for Writing; writing out of order
- 36:30 Motivation to keep writing through the hard parts
- 39:54 Switching among different series
- 41:20 Brain FM for focusing and study music on Spotify
- 43:40 Closing
LINKS
https://melissabourbon.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/MelissaBourbonWinnieArcherBooks/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/bookishly_cozy
Book Warriors book group on FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BookWarriors
FOR WRITER SPARK ACADEMY
Courses: https://writersparkwritingacademy.teachable.com/
Website: https://writersparkacademy.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/TheWriterSpark
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/writer_spark/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnKN2ZVZwjoAOeHlBO-cRIw
Direct Link to the Audio episode
Direct Link to the Video episode
on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FrcjXMGc3O4
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