Unfiltered Ink Podcast

What makes a fictional character feel real enough for us to care about what happens to them?

In Episode 5 of Unfiltered Ink, Dr. Elea explores the psychology of character development and the role our brains play in understanding, predicting, and con... more

In Part 2 of Episode 4, Dr. Elea explores the psychology behind the characters writers create. From fears and desires to wounds, fantasies, values, and even the things we would never say out loud, pieces of the writer can appear in unexpected places.... more

Is there actually a writer in all of us? And if there is, why do some people reach for a pen when life gets complicated, while others reach for the phone?

In Part 1 of this two-part episode of Unfiltered Ink, Dr. Elea explores the psychology behind ... more

Every writer has heard the rules: show, don’t tell; avoid clichés; don’t use too many adverbs; don’t start with a dream. But what happens when following the rules starts to erase the very thing that makes your writing yours?

In this episode of The U... more

Have you ever written a sentence, stared at it, and thought, I can't let anybody read that?

In this episode of Unfiltered Ink, Dr. Elle explores the moment writing becomes something more than expression—it becomes a negotiation between what we reall... more

Where do our characters really come from—and how much of the writer finds its way into the writing without us even realizing it?

In the first episode of Unfiltered Ink, Dr. Elea welcomes listeners into The Inkwell and explores the fascinating relati... more

Unfiltered Ink is where writers don’t hold back.

Fiction or nonfiction, how much of the writer finds its way into the writing? Sometimes it’s intentional. Other times, pieces of our experiences, memories, emotions, and truths slip into the work befo... more