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The Writers’ Gym Podcast — 110 episodes
Victoria Dowd in conversation with Dr Rachel Knightley
The Worst Writing Advice I Ever Received: InkCouragement with Dr Rachel Knightley
Nathan Newman in conversation with Dr Rachel Knightley
Visibility and Voice: InkCouragement with Dr Rachel Knightley
Lucy Kate Barnes in conversation with Dr Rachel Knightley
It Is What It Is: Ink Couragement with Dr Rachel Knightley
Helen Marshall in conversation with Dr Rachel Knightley
Boundaries and Writing
Ramsey Campbell in conversation with Dr Rachel Knightley
What it Is vs What it Means
I Should be Doing Something Else
Doug Naylor: Sin Bin Island, Red Dwarf and remembering Rob Grant
Lee Murray in conversation with Dr Rachel Knightley
'Just' do it?
Lavie Tidhar in conversation with Dr Rachel Knightley
Project or Palette Cleanser?
Sarah Bax Horton in conversation with Dr Rachel Knightley
Unblocking
Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes joins Dr Rachel Knightley at The Writers' Gym
No, Reading isn't Stealing
Ally Wilkes, Stoker-award nominated author, joins Dr Rachel Knightley at the Writers' Gym
True Resolutions are Realisations
Jenny Rogers: author, editor and executive coach joins Dr Rachel Knightley at the Writers' Gym
Kayleigh Dobbs, Happy Goat Horror founder, joins Dr Rachel Knightley at the Writers' Gym
Emeritus Professor Andrew Cowan joins Dr Rachel Knightley at the Writers' Gym.
Alison Littlewood, Shirley Jackson award winning author joins Dr Rachel Knightley at the Writers' Gym
Jade Robertson, founder and creative director of Little Lies joins Dr Rachel Knightley at the Writers' Gym
Ashley Thorpe, award winning animator joins Dr Rachel Knightley at the Writers' Gym
Claire Louise Amias, actor and playwright joins Dr Rachel Knightley at the Writers' Gym
Kim Morgan MCC, author, speaker and Barefoot Coaching founder joins Dr Rachel Knightley at the Writers' Gym
Tim Lebbon, New York Times-bestselling author joins Dr Rachel Knightley at the Writers' Gym
Joanne Harris (OBE, FRSL) joins Dr Rachel Knightley at the Writers' Gym
What makes you write
Plots and protagonists
Antagonist exercises
Symbols and characters
The brain is a toy cupboard
Setting and character
Rachel Knightley in conversation with British Fantasy Award 2025 nominee Steve Toase
Green Ink Sponsored Write 2025
Green Ink Sponsored Write 2025 with Sarah Brooks
Building your writing world
Abandon the idea of ‘enough’ time and start writing
Writing that makes a difference
Rachel Knightley talks to award winning author Anthony McGowan
Rachel Knightley talks to BAFTA-winning writer, director and producer Dan Berlinka
Rachel Knightley talks to British Fantasy, Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy Award winner Priya Sharma
Rachel Knightley talks to Tiny Pieces of Skull author and 2016 Lambda winner Roz Kaveney
Rachel Knightley talks to six-time Bram Stoker award winner Lisa Morton
Rachel Knightley talks to instant Sunday Times Bestselling author Sarah Brooks
Rachel Knightley talks to screenwriter, sci-fi/fantasy novelist and TV/radio dramatist Philip Palmer
Rachel Knightley talks to award winning Nordic Noir crime novelist Alex Dahl
Rachel Knightley talks to award-winning author, journalist and ovarian-cancer-wrangler Jennifer Steil
Rachel Knightley talks to Macmillan Cancer Support's Andy Gould
Bookmark Bible
Landing Patterns
Welcome to the Writers Gym Podcast
Shooting the Should Fairies
Our Characters in Space and Time
Part Two: How to Trust Your Reader
Part One: How to Trust Your Reader
Why Point of View is Everything
Vulnerability is Strength
Stealthwriting
Perfect Was Never On the Menu: Two Creative Writing Exercises
Think On The Page
Why Normal Jobs Need Not Apply - Kim Newman
Confidence, Magic and Terry Pratchett – Gabrielle Kent joins the Writers' Gym
Embracing the Strange – Aliya Whiteley joins the Writers' Gym
Eyebrows and Imagination – Rosie Garland joins the Writers' Gym
JD Barker's Writing Life
Returning to Being a Writer – Prano Bailey-Bond joins the Writers' Gym
Adrian Tchaikovsky talks Writing Health (and Insects)
Dr Rachel Knightley and Ashley Lexine - Building Creative Confidence at the Writers' Gym
Memory and Flashback
A Writer's Fuel
Prologues and Epilogues
Narrators
Reading For Writers
Viewpoint and Perspective
Principles of Scriptwriting
Pace and Structure
Animosity in Fiction
Rhianna Pratchett at the Writers' Gym
Chronological Versus Fractured Narratives
Foreshadowing
Short Fiction
Relationships in Fiction
Making Time to Write
Writing Tips from the Writers' Gym Team
Writing with Nigel Planer
Inspiration Versus Perspiration
Writing Across Genres with Gareth L Powell
Music and Writing
Character Building
Beating the Blank Page
Write What You Know: A Discussion
Unreliable Narrators
Layout and Formatting
Worldbuilding
"What's your Wessex?": Place, setting and location in fiction
Editing 101
How Not to Give Feedback
Nigel Planer and Friends
The Horror Muse and the Freelance Life – with Trevor Kennedy, Big Hits Radio UK
Writing Lives: with Maura McHugh
Connection Through Imperfection
Not Writing Every Day: Being a Writer Every Day.
The Political Is The Personal: Mike Jones on Memoir, Poetry and Songwriting
Rachel Knightley talks to Jennifer Steil