S02E27-065 When things fall into Place with Lorna Woulfe

Author: DL Nix
Published: Fri 29 Aug 2025
Episode Link: https://findingelara.libsyn.com/s02e27-065-when-things-fall-into-place-with-lorna-woulfe

Guest Bio

Lorna Woulfe was born and raised in the state of Ohio. She has lived in such exotic locales as Denver CO, Los Angeles, CA, and Nashville, TN. She is the alter ego of L. Anne Wooley who writes nonfiction under that name. Her pen name was created to honor both sides of her family; Lorna was her maternal grandmother (also a writer ). Woulfe is what Wooley descends from, Ireland is here the clan lived. She's a poet, writer, editor and flutist ; also a jewelry designer. She is a co-admin and co-host of an event called Writer's Night, held via the Facebook group Writer's Night Quills for over 11 years now. Also a 16-year veteran of NaNoWriMo and has run many workshops on Nano prep including the history of NaNoWrimo, tips Character Creation, Plotting and Outlining and, of course, World Building. She is published in multiple anthologies with both short stories and poetry. Her latest is a poem in Ohio Bard's Poetry Anthology 2025

Links

Contact Lorna

Instagram: @velvetdelenn

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LornaWoulfeAuthor/

Discord: Lisa 089480

Things you can enter

TREASURE CHEST GIVEAWAY

From Poppy: 1 e-copy of Woken Kingdom and d1 e-copy of How to edit your own novel.

From Elizabeth: Winners Choice of any 1 thing from her etsy store/a copy of her book.

From Lorna: A winners choice of one of her Anthologies

From BCP: 2x A copy of one of the BCP Low/Medium Content Journal range

Treasure chest Give-away 3: (open 30/07/2025 closes 8/10/2025)

https://www.bushlandcastleproductions.com/treasure-chest

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Contact Dianna

Website: www.dlnix.com

Facebook: (DL Nix) https://www.facebook.com/Faepatriantales

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Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/jaduxbury1/p/the-secrets-of-crickley-hall?r=376hxo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Show Notes

Struggled with Mindfulness, hard to define – makes sure she can keep an even keel.
Poet first. Dream International al ¼
2004 Returned to writing
Had group at a bar; Natalie Goodbridge down the Bones
Not the destination it’s the journey
Sarah Cannon – you tube Heart Breathing rough draft Challenge
Had a few different names before settled on Writer Quills Night
Stress is a struggle that she is always trying to do better.
Not too different between the writing styles
Balance= to work on 1 idea
Writing primps are useful
Prefers fantasy generally – Urban
Likes Colour by numbers and cat time.
Been lucky with submissions and has helped a lot with the editing.
Remember with a rejections it is not a reflections of her, it is the work.
Goal setting helps with finishing projects
Unravels plet problems and then sets goals
Unwinds at work to rest before going home
Writers night helps.
Hand writing for warm ups. It activates a different part of the brain.
Is a plantser – has been surprised by characters
Current goals to finish Haiku Book this year and storm Raven.

Fast Fire Questions

Would you rather be a table or a chair? Table
Are you a dog person or cat person? Cat
Who is your favourite superhero? Wonder Woman
If you were to have a magical power what would it be? Invisibility
What is the first think you would do with a huge lotto win? Pay Bills

Buffy Night

Babylon 5

Loves the character Growth and development throughout the series.

Bibliography:

Still in print:

Cracks in the tapestry / Warps in the Tapestry. Her poem was the back cover in cracks in the tapestry.

https://www.amazon.com/Cracks-Tapestry-Arthur-David-ebook/dpB07H69PCT

https://www.amazon.com/Warps-Tapestry-Arthur-David-ebook/dp/B08YJK2NHM

The Longest Nightwatch Vol. 2.

An anthology dedicated to raising funds for Alzheimer's research. It was an honor of Sir Terry Pratchett. Her story was under L. Anne Wooley at the time.

https://www.amazon.com/Longest-Night-Watch-Alzheimers-Association/dp/1537773755

Pride Park

This one she edited partially, helped finish and get published. She also wrote the forward.

This was written in honor of the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting.

https://www.amazon.com/Pride-Park-Anthology-support-freedom-ebook/dp/B07DBH4S1L

Ohio Bard's poetry anthology 2023-2024 and 2025.

https://www.amazon.com/Ohio-Bards-Poetry-Anthology-2024/dp/B0DH2HVV35

https://www.amazon.com/Ohio-Bards-Poetry-Anthology-2025/dp/B0F63QZNZW

COLLABORATION WITH Jamie Winters

These Little Lovelies: https://www.amazon.sg/These-Little-Lovelies-Haiku-Collection/dp/B0B36DSCDT

Under L. Anne Wooley

Fandom Universe: A Galaxy Far Far Away.