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The Write Focus

Successful writing requires The Write Focus. Hosted by M.A. Lee with occasional forays from Remi Black and Edie Roones, we focus on productivity / tools / craft / process for fiction and nonfiction, entertainment and academic writing.

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38:56

6:03 / John Connor Talks Writing & Publishing

The Write Focus ·

2025/01/22

Two fountain pens and specific paper to encourage creativity. Computer systems like Linux as best tools. In a wide-ranging interview with everything from fonts to covers, John Connor with the UK press Murderous Ink shares it all.A connectivity glitch smack in the middle of the interview didn’t derail Connor. We continued on, with manuscript format and the concerns of publishers about document file types. The interview could easily have lasted all afternoon, but alas, Zoom called for an end. John

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37:29

6:02 / Writers = Scott Ellis Talks the Narration Biz

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2025/01/15

In this episode we have All Things Narration ~ clearly, concisely, professionally ~ explained by the award-winning narrator / producer Scott Ellis of Scott Ellis Reads.From the various unseen and unheard jobs of the narrator before beginning, through major job of recording sessions and re-recording and the pick-ups after, to making the many files easily available for the writer’s use, the role of a great narrator is to help the writer’s story become more accessible to a wider audience. And Scott

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6:01 / Writers on Writing / Marie Still

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2025/01/08

Welcome to Writers on Writing, interviews with active writers to inspire us all for our great start to 2025.In this week’s episode, our focus is Marie Still, an award-winning thriller and horror author. She’s a marketer turned writer in the coronacoaster year. She took the giant step upon the urging of a friend. Marie Still torments her characters from Tampa Bay. She also writes women's fiction under Kristen Seeley. Her novels include My Darlings (currently in development as a television series

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6:00 / Writers on Writing / Introduction from host...

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2024/12/11

Start 2025 with information about tech tools, productivity, and process as well as a few snippets on craft, all from active writers ... and narrators and publishers. Zoom interviews give us this opportunity.Write on!

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5:49 / Fall into Poetry / Journey with TSEliot

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2024/12/04

Our poem for the Christmas holidays has two lessons for all writers. It comes from T.S. Eliot.My introduction to TSE came in college, either a survey course in modern poetry or as part of a literature survey. Professor C. Hines Edwards, dry and erudite, was one of two that I admired for his knowledge of poetry classical and structure-less. He introduced TSE’s “The Wasteland” to us, a long poem known for its allusions. The literary device allusions has its place in writing. In a few brief words, it

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5:48 / Celebrate Thanksgiving

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2024/11/27

The Write Focus wishes you a Happy Thanksgiving week ~ full of rich holiday food, joyous time with people we love, awkward encounters with other people, and a money blast on Black Friday—which usually extends to Cyber Monday.This episode doesn’t fit with our Fall into Poetry series ~ although it does gift you with poems stuffed with thanks—and not so stuffed. No analysis or advice to writers, just poetry. It’s a Cornucopeia of Poems to share for Thanksgiving. TIMINGS 00:00 Introduction 00:40

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5:47 / Fall into Poetry / Prepare for 6 Lessons

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2024/11/20

We’re a week to Thanksgiving here in the USofA, and we have not one or two but three poems of gratitude to examine, giving us 6 lessons of Advice for All Writers. These three poems have quirky ways of matching to the holiday, thanks-giving and gratitude. The gratitude doesn’t take the gushing that usually fills most writings about thankfulness. The individual poets present their heartfelt emotion in a realistic manner. They’ve lived real lives and experienced pain and heartbreak, and they share this

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5:46 / Fall into Poetry / Writing Dark and Bright

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2024/11/13

When we live our life in the present, being in the moment, we can develop a love-hate relationship with people and things we encounter daily.We don’t “love to hate” these; we love them at some times while at other times we hate them. We may happily encounter and deal with them, then on a day not too far away, we groan and say, “Not today, please, not today.” That contradiction, that contrariness, is engrained in our human nature. We aren’t changing our minds. Five days from now, love will

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17:58

5:45 / Fall into Poetry / Writing Public vs. Private

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2024/11/06

“Share your innermost life,” marketing gurus advise writers, “with your readers, your newsletter folks, with everyone. Make it all public Make it pop-ular.” That’s a certain way to burn out most of your audience, who just want the knowledge you have or just want to be entertained. “Open the window. Let them see into part of your life.” That’s reasonable and rational marketing advice. A window doesn’t give access to every room of your home, and it certainly doesn’t give access to what you’ve stored

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5:44 / Fall into Poetry / Deceptive Monsters

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2024/10/30

Monsters of all sorts inhabit literature, for they crowd into people’s consciousness whenever we face trials and tribulations.The unnatural monsters, goy and terrifying, gorging themselves without mercy or conscience, these are our nightmares, rarely encountered. The deceptive monsters, the ones that camouflage who and what they are, still gorging themselves, relishing each victim, these inhabit our everyday lives. We should be wary of them, but we still find ourselves caught in their devastating

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5:43 / Fall into Poetry / Unexpected Monsters

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2024/10/23

Love. Betrayal. Death. Those subjects we discussed in our story-song and in other recent poems, including Christina Rossetti’s particular version of false love and twisted betrayal—Lust that isn’t love, summer friends abandoning her in her self-exile, her false love leaving her to face her trouble alone. When we’ve endured betrayal, our memories of that traitors are as a monster. Monsters need not have venom-dripping fangs and wicked-sharp talons. The worst monsters are in our own selves, the ones

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5:42 / Fall into Poetry / Rossetti's 3 Cold Poems

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2024/10/16

October is a month of changes, of transitions, anticipation of the colors even as summer gives us a few reminders of his warmth.And October ends with All Hallow’s Eve, the evening before a holy day ~ a time of riotous revelry by the forces defiant against God, Father, Creator, Savior. Creeping upon me with the early chill of October mornings was the realization that Christina Rossett should be next in our Fall into Poetry series. Born 1830 and died 1894, Rossetti is sister to the artist-poet Dante

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5:41 / Fall into Poetry / Dances of October

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2024/10/09

We have a theme of Dances of October for this episode ~ although one of our two poems doesn’t mention dancing and the other doesn’t mention October. How are we connecting these two works to that theme? Well, my brain said “Put them together”, and here we are. The first poem is by African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. He’s barely anthologized anymore, but that doesn’t mean he should be neglected. Dunbar is an excellent writer with diverse style in different forms, including prose and plays. His

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5:40 / Fall into Poetry / Two Autumn Poems

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2024/10/02

What sparks a love of poetry?The highbrow puzzles of e.e. cummings or the imagism of Ezra Pound. The lyrical music of John Keats or Christina Rossetti. The logical jumps and intellectual gymnastics of the metaphysical poets. The gimmick that marks Ferlinghetti. The emotions that lurk in a Longfellow sonnet. The intriguing story-songs that we just examined last month. None of the above sparked my love of poetry. They deepened my love and enriched it, teased me by simultaneously engaging mind and

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5:39 / Fall into Poetry / Sweet Wine

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2024/09/25

Wine is heady stuff. A simple goblet of wine relaxes us; a mega-pint or a bottle can tip us into trouble.Do you prefer the creamy full-body of a fine cabernet or the bite of a sauvignon blanc? Perhaps a medium red like a spicy Zinfandel or a lighter Riesling? Or a fruiter, sweet-forward wine, like a strawberry wine? Homemade, requiring only fresh strawberries, sugar, yeast, and water? Hi, everyone. This week’s episode is another story-song, not a ballad of love, betrayal, and death. This is a sweet

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5:38 / Fall into Poetry / Sweet Lies

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2024/09/18

Here’s an odd way to start a conversation about a song: the word moron. Hi all. It’s the third episode in our autumn series Fall Into Poetry. We’ve featured two story-songs (narrative poems) that are ballads, not the modern power ballad of the music world but the literature-based ballad with its focus on the subjects of love, betrayal, and death. This episode’s song is not a ballad, even though it concerns love and betrayal and the death of a relationship. It’s not even a story-song. It’s a lyric

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5:37 / Fall into Poetry / Clown Faire

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2024/09/11

Story-songs, like last episode’s “Read my Mind” by Gordon Lightfoot, leave a mark in our memories. Very little is needed to return them to the foreground of our mind.That’s also the case with this episode’s story-song, another ballad, this time for Broadway, written by the fantastic Stephen Sondheim, a great in American stagecraft. I first encountered this song in 1976 as part of my chorus class, not on the radio. It requires a maturity of experience, which I didn’t have then. I caught the song’s

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5:36 / Fall into Poetry / Read my Mind

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2024/09/04

Every writer is after memorable writing, whatever will strengthen our words and ideas so they haunt our audience.We want our audience to return again and again to our writing, either to recapture that original impact or to puzzle out a question that wasn’t answered. Capture our audience, and they stay with our writing to the end. Satisfy our audience, and they seek more of our writing. This is our goal: win-win, us and them. Our series Fall into Poetry would seem to appeal only to poets—but that’s

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5:35 / Word Count Challenge / Check-In # 4 /...

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2024/08/28

Hi, everyone. Welcome to the fourth check-in for the Word Count Challenge with the theme of Surviving that Horrible Week for Writing.I thought I was smart, earlier in this year, when I scheduled a Wednesday to Tuesday trip. The hectic weekend driving would be avoided. When most people would be arriving or leaving, I would be snuggled in and could enjoy. That plan is great for a trip, not so much for a Word Count Challenge. I delayed drafting this episode to Tuesday morning. I drove home on Tuesday

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5:34 / Word Count Challenge / 3rd Check-in /...

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2024/08/21

Hello, everyone. It’s the 3rd Check-in for the Word Count Challenge here in August, and we’re discovering problems.I continue to meet my goal of 500 new words daily, no matter the interruptions. I’ve had to write fiction and nonfiction to achieve 500 new words, and other writing tasks are still occurring, all in a mix of daily fun time with family and commitments and responsibilities that I’m promised to. I actually started this episode draft on Monday to finish words for that day because other

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