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Dr Rachel Knightley

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Author, Speaker, Writing and Confidence Coach | Founder: The Writers’ Gym membership and podcast |drrachelknightley.substack.com

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02.03.2026 16:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‘You find out what you wanted to say in the process of writing it.’

@xaldanareyes.bsky.social on The Writers' Gym Podcast, celebrating the process: giving ourselves freedom to discover along the way, rather than staying too attached to what we thought we were doing before we picked up the pen.

02.03.2026 16:56 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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A very happy Twin Peaks Day to all who celebrate ❤️🖤

24.02.2026 19:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This week on the podcast I’m with @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social talking about writing, not writing, post-pandemic unmasking and the importance of a writing life that reflects who you — truly and uniquely — are.

Join us at The Writers’ Gym wherever you get your podcasts.

16.02.2026 09:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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May we have a moment for Magic the Labrador? I loved my whole experience of Bloody Barnes at OSO Arts Centre, particularly seeing @sophiehannah.bsky.social, but the icing on the cake is having this lovely dog as co-MC.

09.02.2026 13:31 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Writer’s block: the price we pay for knowing just how much there is to say.

A brilliant discussion with Jenny Rogers on The Writers’ Gym Podcast this week.

02.02.2026 13:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Beautiful quote about the practical importance of finding the fun.

A pleasure and a privilege to have Alison Littlewood on The Writers' Gym Podcast this week. Download from anywhere podcasty now.

12.01.2026 12:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Forget fake it till you make it: show up until you realise you were ALWAYS worthy (and maybe that everyone else is just as scared!).

The stories we tell ourselves show up in the smallest choices. A joy to talk to creative director and voice of Little Lies Jade Robertson on The Writers’ Gym Podcast.

05.01.2026 09:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Everybody has a well of hurt and darkness somewhere... but don't get the opportunity to use that for their own creativity.

I… was able to turn moments of having been frightened into being frightening — but in my own way… doing whatever I could to make the darkness sparkle.”

Tim Curry

01.01.2026 17:07 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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For anyone panicking about their career instead of discovering it, one surprising step at a time:

The Writers’ Gym Podcast brings you
@ashley999thorpe.bsky.social (Uncanny @dannyrobins.bsky.social, Borley Rectory). Animator, filmmaker, writer, horror fan, fellow disciple of Kermit the Frog…

29.12.2025 14:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In this monthly column, we pose your questions to an expert in a specific field of speculative fiction. This month, we asked writing and confidence coach @drrachelknightley.bsky.social to help our members get ready for a new year of creativity.

britishfantasysociety.org/ask-an-exper...

23.12.2025 19:41 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Some wise words in this month's Ask an Expert column - thanks @drrachelknightley.bsky.social!

23.12.2025 19:43 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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A truly lovely beginning to Christmas/continuation of Chanukah with the freelancers tribe. Thank you so much for arranging, @annodracula.bsky.social ❤️

17.12.2025 16:55 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

FB words of @timlebbon.bsky.social about The Writers’ Gym Podcast:

“It was so much fun chatting with Rachel Knightley for The Writers' Gym podcast, check it out!! Features horror, imposter syndrome, and cake.”

I feel seen 😁

08.12.2025 17:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

@drrachelknightley.bsky.social is in the expert hot seat for the BFS this month, ready and waiting to help you get your creative 2026 off to a great start 💪🏻

03.12.2025 12:54 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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The brilliant @joannechocolat.bsky.social joins me at the Writers’ Gym to talk all things writing and the healthy habits that get us out of our own way and into our stories.

Download us from Monday 1 January wherever you get your podcasts.

30.11.2025 07:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you @nawewriters.bsky.social headlined by @naomialderman.bsky.social for inviting me to speak at this year’s conference, Inspiring Writing.

Write, Speak, Connect celebrated how freedom, permission & creativity start with our work with ourselves, and support every other writer we work with.

09.11.2025 10:26 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

The past tense on Twitter was ‘tweeted’. So, when I’ve posted here, have I ‘blueskid’?

04.11.2025 10:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, that'd be us. The small suitcase proved heavier than expected when being lifted to the overhead shelf.

02.11.2025 15:37 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Symbols are SO personal, whether we’re discovering characters in the world or in our heads.

I’ll never forget the LOOK I got when I tried explaining to the wrong person the skull on my scarf was a positive symbol for me.

But it is. We’re here now.

03.11.2025 10:26 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So glad!

03.11.2025 10:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So who else is on a train returning from @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social carrying many, MANY more books than they arrived with?

#worldfantasycon

02.11.2025 13:25 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 2

Enormously proud to report Green Ink Sponsored Write 2025 for Macmillan Cancer Support reached £1815.

Proofreading by Writers’ Gym members Bella and Truett today; digital anthology by Steve for all our sponsors tomorrow.

Thanks @rhi.bsky.social for a fab title and all who wrote or sponsored 💚

19.10.2025 08:07 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Green Ink Sponsored Write 2025 for Macmillan Cancer Support Help Green Ink Sponsored Write at the Writers' Gym raise money to support Macmillan Cancer Support

We’ve nearly doubled our intended total — and I’ve sneakily left the page open so you can still secure the world-exclusive new writing anthology by donating any amount to Macmillan tonight.

Thank you @rhi.bsky.social for a glorious title.

www.justgiving.com/page/somewhe...

18.10.2025 18:03 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Not a truly indicative picture of my tube-strike journey — but ALMOST made it worth it.

13.09.2025 10:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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18 October: we write. 19 October: we edit. 20 October: world-exclusive anthology published, all for Macmillan Cancer Support.

@sarahbrooks.bsky.social @rhi.bsky.social @rozkaveney.bsky.social @katharineorton.bsky.social

02.09.2025 14:16 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Honoured to be involved in this year's Sponosored Write, on behalf of Macmillan Cancer Support, along with a whole gaggle of amazing writers!

01.09.2025 22:36 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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We have a beautiful title from @rhi.bsky.social this year and, as ever, 48 hours from creation to publication all for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Grab your world-exclusive anthology by 18 October at justgiving.com/page/somewhere-thats-green

01.09.2025 17:51 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

I very much enjoyed talking with @drrachelknightley.bsky.social for her brilliant writing podcast series. I'm not sure if I said anything useful, but all her questions are thoughtful and interesting.

25.08.2025 13:06 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Wise and generous creative insights from multiple-BAFTA-winning screenwriter, director and producer @danberlinka.bsky.social, joining me on The Writers’ Gym today.

Follow or download wherever you get your podcasts.

25.08.2025 12:45 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1