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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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5:13 / Defeat Writer's Block / More Techniques from...

The Write Focus ·

2024/03/27

Here we are with More Techniques from Erle Stanley Gardner. We’re tackling Gardner’s solutions for Writer’s Block.Look to the Show Notes for information about the nonfiction book that is the source for this information. TIMINGS 00:00 Welcome 00:40 Introduction 01:11 Unmentioned Unmentionable 01:54 Notes & Rules on Work 07:30 Plotting Machines 12:20 Gardner, THE Plotting Machine 15:16 Flying Buttresses against Writer’s Block 17:10 Last Words / Closing Total Run Time :: 19:17 LINKS Secrets of

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5:12 / Defeat Writer's Block / How One Pro Won the...

The Write Focus ·

2024/03/20

66,000 words per week140 titles published ~ novels and short stories. Of that number, 100 of them sold over one million copies EACH. Translated into dozens of languages Used pen names because he was so prolific he had to disguise his output from editors Who is this great Defeater of Writer’s Block? Let’s try one more clue. 271 TV episodes produced with his trademark character Perry Mason. Have you guessed the writer? Erle Stanley Gardner. To write 66,000 words each week and to publish 140

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16:41

5:11 / Defeat Writer's Block / Pro Writers part B

The Write Focus ·

2024/03/13

We’re back with more advice from Pro Writers on Defeating Writer’s Block.Let’s launch straight into business. TIMINGS 00:00 Welcome 00:40 Introduction 00:48 Barbara Kingsolver 03:00 William Stafford (poet) 03:51 Scott McCormick 09:16 Philip Pullman 12:06 Charlaine Harris 14:34 Last Words / Closing Total Run Time:: 16:40 Links None. Quotations came from a variety of internet sites. Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for

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17:08

5:10 / Defeat Writer's Block / Pro Writers part A

The Write Focus ·

2024/03/06

In the first part of this series, The Write Focus shared everything we had to say about Writer’s Block and how to defeat that three-headed monster.When we research the topic, we find articles that claim 5 types or 10 types of Writer’s Block. Shudder. I don’t want even to contemplate 10 types. Yet I read the article—so you don’t have to. Guess what? Those 10 types are actually just an expansion of the 3 types we covered in our series—as were the 5 types. And the solutions were exactly what we

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16:25

5:09 / Defeat Writer's Block / Overcoming Type 3

The Write Focus ·

2024/02/28

Writer’s Block looms like a sharp-clawed monster over every writer. A daily discipline—No Day without Lines—is extremely helpful, no matter how many you schedule for a particular day.Nulla Dies Sine Linea is our mantra, right? We can overcome a simple refusal to write by maintaining discipline and side projects and our escapes when we’re overwhelmed. We can defeat Procrastination by overcoming the Twin Fears of Failure and of Judgment. If our worries are failure and judgment, those problems are not

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5:08 /Defeat Writer's Block / Overcoming Type 2

The Write Focus ·

2024/02/21

Defeating Writer’s Block is easy to say, not so easy to do. We writers have to discover the problem we’re having with those pesky little words. 1st, we have to find them—and they do like to hide. 2nd, we have to write them down—whether in a notebook or straight to the keyboard. That’s a whole problem on its own. We can’t count the Block as a simple disruption, a wholesale explosion of our writing time. It’s the Desire and the Initiative to write that’s the problem. In our diagnostic quiz, at the end

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5:07 / Defeat Writer's Block / Overcoming Type 1

The Write Focus ·

2024/02/14

Hey! Our claim is that Writer’s Block doesn’t exist? And you say, “I don’t believe it. I’m blocked. I’m suffering with Writer’s Block.” Believe it or not, the truth is that Writer’s Block does NOT exist. Not. No way. Nope. We can write, but something keeps us from writing what we very well need to write. At the end of our last episode, the introduction to this series on Defeating Writer’s Block, we classified 3 types. Knowing the type that’s affecting us, that’s part of the solution to any Writer’s

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5:06 / Defeat Writer's Block / Introduction

The Write Focus ·

2024/02/07

Can you name a phrase that every writer fears? Try “Writer’s Block”. We writers all have a deep-seated fear when we hear those two words side by side. Writer’s Block—those should be forbidden to speak together. We have quite a number of pro writers who claim there’s no such things as Writer’s Block, and I’m one of them—but I will admit that I find myself refusing to write or avoiding my desk or just stuck on a story. Distractions and disruptions occur, and before we know it, weeks—not days,

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16:32

5:05 / Plot 7, part B / Discovering Plot

The Write Focus ·

2024/01/31

In the last episode, we began our look at a process method I call Plot 7. This week we finish the Plot 7 and our series on Discovering Plot. Coming up for February are four episodes on Overcoming Writer’s Block. The Plot 7 is wonderful for sparking ideas for a new novel or novella. It’s too deep for a short story. In the Plot 7 are the 7 most important scenes for the novel. We covered the Beginning, the Very End, and the Roughest Moment / the Ordeal. This episode covers the last 4 … and these are

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5:04 / Plot 7 part a / Discovering Plot

The Write Focus ·

2024/01/24

We’re winding up the Discovering Plot series with the Plot 7, a quick way to launch into story and to reach that story’s heart … and discover if it will fly—or crash like my feeble attempts at paper airplanes. Plot 7 comes from the writer’s guidebook Think like a Pro, by M.A. Lee, designed to turn a hobby writer into a pro writer with the necessary mindset changes. We’ll break the Plot 7 into 2 episodes. TIMINGS 00:00 Welcome 00:40 Introduction 01:17 Plot 7 Raison d’Etre 04:18 Plot 1 05:40 Plot

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5:03 / An Asian Plotting Method / Discovering Plot

The Write Focus ·

2024/01/17

Welcome to our 200th episode of The Write Focus. Yippee! We made it farther than I ever anticipated, 200 episodes and into Season 5, and we still have more episodes ahead. AND it’s all thanks to our listeners, who motivate us to keep offering more and more. Over our 200 episodes, we’ve covered craft with plot and characters, process with sentence craft, productivity with challenges, and tools for writers. This episode is an update to an old post, a Blast from the Past, with new insights to make it

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24:31

5:02 / Stages 11 & 12 / Greatest Plot Structure

The Write Focus ·

2024/01/10

It’s the last official episode for Discovering Plot and the final 2 stages of the greatest plot structure for writers, the Archetypal Story Pattern. While many of us have our favorite plot structure, all the ones that I’ve analyzed and taught cannot match the adaptability and flexibility of the ASP. Hopefully, with the variety of discussed plots, many writers will see the value of the ASP. In this episode, we have Stages 11 and 12. Stage 11 is the Resurrection of the Evil (and of our Protagonist)

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5:01 / Stages 9 & 10 / Greatest Plot Structure /...

The Write Focus ·

2024/01/03

Welcome to the 5th season of The Write Focus, the podcast for writers of all types, newbies and veterans and everyone in-between. Our FOCUS is productivity, process, craft, and tools. We are justifiably proud of achieving this 5th season. We started in 2020, that dreadful year, so good things do come from bad ones. Apart from our yearly hiatus in the hectic Decembers, we haven’t missed a weekly episode. This week, we officially open this season with Episode 198. How is that for meeting deadlines

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Merry Christmas / Amber Dreams chapter 5 / Sailing...

The Write Focus ·

2023/12/26

“Amber Dreams”, chapter 5 Sailing with Mystery is available as an audiobook from M.A. Lee and Writers Ink Books. Visit M.A. Lee (maleebooks.blogspot.com) for more information.

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Merry Christmas / Amber Dreams chapter 4 / Sailing...

The Write Focus ·

2023/12/26

“Amber Dreams”, chapter 4

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Merry Christmas / Amber Dreams chapter 3 / Sailing...

The Write Focus ·

2023/12/26

“Amber Dreams”, chapter 3

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20:45

Merry Christmas / Amber Dreams chapter 2 / Sailing...

The Write Focus ·

2023/12/26

“Amber Dreams”, chapter 2 Blackmail threatens a young bride when her secret diary is stolen. Her marriage of convenience is threatened if the contents are revealed to her new husband and his autocratic mother. Can Isabella recover the diary before the bride loses all hope? . ~ . ~ . ~ . Sailing with Mystery is a collection of short stories in the Into Death series. The Write Focus host M.A. Lee offers these audio selections as a Merry Christmas for the TWF listeners.

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16:28

Merry Christmas / Amber Dreams chapter 1 / Sailing...

The Write Focus ·

2023/12/26

Mystery and peril are dangerous shipmates for an ocean voyage. While travel presents opportunities to meet new friends and see new places, Isabella Tarrant also encounters puzzling crimes and dangerous intrigue as she sails from England to India. “Amber Dreams”, chapter 1 Blackmail threatens a young bride when her secret diary is stolen. Her marriage of convenience is threatened if the contents are revealed to her new husband and his autocratic mother. Can Isabella recover the diary before the bride

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16:47

Stage 8 / Greatest Plot Structure / Discovering Your...

The Write Focus ·

2023/12/06

Stage 8 is the second of the two most important stages of the Archetypal Story Pattern, the greatest plot structure in the world. Many would say that it is the most important stage. We’ve reached the Ordeal, the Dark Moment, the greatest trial for our protagonist, the point closest to Death—the near loss of a love, a goal or dream almost destroyed, a job or status at an explosive moment that could prove fatal if one more horrid mistake occurs. While the Ordeal is not the ultimate battle, it is

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Stage 7 / Greatest Plot Structure / Discovering Your...

The Write Focus ·

2023/11/29

Stage 7 is the first of the two most important stages of the Archetypal Story Pattern. It is the Approach to the Inmost Cave and sets up events and character dynamics for the crucial Stage 8, the Dark Moment or the Ordeal. The Inmost Cave is the location of the Ordeal, the point where our protagonist comes closest to Death. That could the loss of love, of a motivating goal or dream, of a job or status, an intellectual pursuit, or physical death. We writers want to lead straight into the Ordeal, but

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