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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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6:43 / On Hiatus / The Write Focus

The Write Focus ·

2025/10/29

Well, this has never happened. Changes disrupt ~ but do bring progress. Listen to learn while The Write Focus is on hiatus.

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6:42 / Fall into Poetry with Poets / Nancy Brewka-Clark

The Write Focus ·

2025/10/22

Nancy Brewka-Clark is our guest poet for this episode of The Write Focus. With clever one-liners, Nancy shares how poetry affects writing and life.Her collection Beautiful Corpus published just as Covid struck, and the intended splash of a new publication became lost in the lock-down world and had lost all shiny newness when society re-opened its doors. Yet Nancy continued, for—as with any true writer—we are happiest when we are creating. BIO: Winner of the 2019 Amy Lowell Poetry Prize and the 2024

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6:41 / Fall into Poetry with Poets / donalee Moulton

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2025/10/15

Returning to The Write Focus podcast, this time to talk poetry and fiction, is Canadian writer donalee Moulton. We talk free verse vs. pure verse, twilight creativity, the benefits of poetry to our writing and to our souls, and many more topics.We also consider the dilemma facing many writers. It’s the question Am I spreading myself too thin by pursuing many different types of writing, or does pursuing poetry and fiction and different genres keep me fresh? Is there an easy answer to this? donalee

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6:40 / Fall into Poetry with Poets / Janet Innes

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2025/10/08

Welcome Back to Fall into Poetry with a Poet, from The Write Focus. Our poet for this episode is crime fiction writer Janet Innis. While we suffer through storms and glitches, we do still manage to have a great conversation about poetry, fiction, and writing in general.Poet before she began writing crime, Janet Innes has always told stories, writing narrative poetry as well as flash fiction, short stories, longer poems, and novels. Whether poetry or prose, her focus is the exploration of

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6:39 / Fall into Poetry with Poets / Michael Cody

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2025/10/01

Welcome to the official start of autumn. We’re two episodes into our Fall into Poetry series—this is the third—with a focus this season on poets who also write fiction.Our primary question is How Writing Poetry Made our Guest a Better Fiction Writer, but I guarantee we will delve into a lot of other corners of writing as well. Today’s guest is Michael Cody, a songwriter-poet who has added fiction to his repertoire, with short stories and novels. He finds poetry does more than enrich his words,

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6:38 / Fall into Poetry with Poets / Pam Ebel

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2025/09/24

Welcome to our second episode for Fall into Poetry with a Poet.Our poet this time is Pam Ebel, and this makes her third appearance on the podcast. Pam is a pure writer, which in my opinion means she writes many different styles and she shares her knowledge freely with us, with other writers at local seminars, and with other writers at national conferences. This year she’s one of the keynote speakers at the Killer Nashville awards banquet. In our wide-ranging conversation, Pam talks specifically

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6:37 / Fall into Poetry with Poets / Joan Leotta

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2025/09/17

Welcome to our autumn series Fall into Poetry.Here where I live, it’s not quite Fall, but I’m desperate for it, and this series is one way I can feed that devouring desperation. This season, we have poets who also write fiction, and that informs the direction of our episodes. While we writers may weave multiple strands into these episodes, the tapestry created depicts creative writing at its best ~ formed of many, many threads in a variety of writing styles, black-and-white nonfiction, the red-hot

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6:36 / Summer Writing Challenge / Week 15 & Interview...

The Write Focus ·

2025/09/10

We have reached the last episode associated with the Summer Writing Challenge.Our Quick Tip covers the 3 Sets of 7 that we writers need for every story start—because you’re moving on to the next writing, right? Reiner Prochaska offers a fascinating view of writing challenges in discussing his two novels and scripts for stage. Reiner Prochaska is a playwright, a novelist, an actor, a director, a filmmaker, and a university lecturer. His plays have been produced at Maryland Ensemble Theatre and

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6:35 / Summer Writing Challenge / Week 14 & Interview...

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2025/09/03

A sidestep into screenwriting led Ryan Hines back to writing short stories, novels, and flash fiction. He talks challenges and the Writer as a Thief of Life. That’s the best Quick Tip any writer can offer. Ryan Michael Hines is a novelist, podcaster, and screenwriter based in Los Angeles, CA, who loves the Southland sun but misses the beauty and mystery of the Appalachian Mountains every day. A graduate of UCLA’s prestigious MFA Screenwriting Program, Ryan has written several award-winning scripts

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6:34 / Summer Writing Challenge / Week 13 & Interview...

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2025/08/27

Santa Barbara screenwriter Todd Goodlett talks scripts, drafting and revising, conflict, and more in this week’s episode of our Summer Writing Challenge.Todd Goodlett is a screenwriter and a playwright. He is the recipient of the 2019 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Screenwriting. Todd is also the winner of the 2019 Final Draft Big Break TV Grand Prize. His plays have been developed and produced across the country including the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival. He lives in Santa Barbara,

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6:33 / Summer Writing Challenge / Week 12 & Interview...

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2025/08/20

Thriller writer Jeffrey James Higgins turns our interview into a smooth journey without any hitches in today’s episode. Located in the DC area, he helps writers with his salon, located at Elaine’s Restaurant , the literary hub of Alexandria, VA. If you’re in that area, do check out the salon.Jeffrey James Higgins is a retired supervisory special agent who writes thrillers, short stories, creative nonfiction, and essays. He has wrestled a suicide bomber, fought the Taliban in combat, and chased

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6:32 / Summer Writing Challenge / Week 11 & Interview...

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2025/08/13

Can you see Autumn yet? I’m yearning for it, my special time of the year.Autumn is the anniversary of this podcast, starting five years ago, and my publishing journey, 10 years ago. It’s always wonderful to me. I see no signs yet, but I’m definitely looking—even though it’s much too soon. We can be that way with our writing: rushing toward the end, especially when we juggle multiple projects—that’s the focus of our Quick Tip this week Our interview is with Michael Dabney, a former journalist now

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6:31 / Summer Writing Challenge / Week 10 and...

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2025/08/06

Into August and the last month of the Summer Writing Challenge with Week 10. Our interviews will stretch two extra weeks of September.Delia Pitts gives us a wonderful interview with fantastic information to share. Born and raised in Chicago, Delia Pitts graduated from Oberlin College with a Bachelor’s degree in history. After working as a journalist, she earned a Ph.D. in African history from the University of Chicago. She is a former university administrator and U.S. diplomat. Her contemporary

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6:30 / Summer Writing Challenge / Week 9 & Interview...

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2025/07/30

We’ve reached the end of July, two-thirds of our Summer Writing Challenge. How are you doing on your summer goal? Share your progress in the Comments. In this week’s episode our talk is with cozy fantasy mystery writer Elle Hartford. Elle writes the award-winning Alchemical Tales series, a blend of cozy mystery and cozy fantasy. She has also published a spin-off series, Pomegranate Cafe Romance, and numerous short mysteries in anthologies. For other writers and authors looking to go “wide,” Elle is

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6:29 / Summer Writing Challenge / Wk 8 & Interview...

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2025/07/23

It’s Week 8 of the Summer Writing Challenge. Eight is symbolic of two disparate meanings: 1] almost to completion, when completion is symbolic 10, and 2] a step beyond perfection, as 7 is the perfect number. We’re not perfect. We’re not even a step before, let alone beyond. We do try. After a Quick Tip on the 2 Requirements for Every Story, we have our interview with writer Paula Messina. Closing, as usual, is the Check-In. Paula Messina grew up on the site of the Ursuline convent and school

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6:28 / Summer Writing Challenge / Interview with Ron...

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2025/07/16

Welcome to our mid-July week for the Summer Writing Challenge.Our interview introduces Ron Katz, who brands his mysteries as The Sleuthing Silvers. We open with a Quick Tip on Antagonists and close with a Check-In. I’m burning ahead to my goal—which is always a good place to be. On to the episode! Ron Katz, a lifetime Baby Boomer, was a trial lawyer for over four decades. A Rhodes Scholar, in 2016 he was a Fellow at Stanford University’s Distinguished Careers Institute, which inspired him to start

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6:27 / Summer Writing Challenge / Wk 6 & Interview...

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2025/07/09

July 9 means we’re in the 6th week of the Summer Writing Challenge.Returning to us in this episode is donalee Moulton, a great writer living in one of my favorite locations, Halifax, Nova Scotia. We open with a Quick Writing Tip on Using Twists then close with a Check-In, as usual. donalee Moulton’s first mystery book Hung out to Die was published in 2023. A historical mystery, Conflagration!, was published in 2024. It won the 2024 Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense

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6:26 / Summer Writing Challenge / Week 5 & Interview...

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2025/07/02

Midsummer brings us to July, and we start July with an interview of Toronto writer Karen Grose.Before the interview, we have a Quick Writing Tip: Don’t completely panic when characters take over the story. It’s then that we cede control of the story to them. After our interview, we close with the 5th Check-In. We’re early days still for our writing challenge and the novella that I’ve chosen to write. Share your successes and problems AND solutions in the Comments. Karen Grose’s debut novel, The

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6:25 / Summer Writing Challenge / Interview with Judy...

The Write Focus ·

2025/06/25

The Summer Writing Challenge enters the 4th week of June with a slight tiptoe into July.How is your challenge progressing? Share your goal and project, problems and solutions, and successes in the Comment Section. Our interview this week is with Judy Penz Sheluk. As a Quick Tip, I chatter about writing a coherent story. We finish with the Check-in. A former journalist and magazine editor, Judy Penz Sheluk is the bestselling author of two mystery series: The Glass Dolphin Mysteries and Marketville

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6:24 / Summer Writing Challenge / Week 3 & Interview...

The Write Focus ·

2025/06/18

Welcome to our third week of June and our third week of the Summer Writing Challenge.How is your challenge going? Share your progress in the Comments, and hit the LIKE button whenever you enjoy an episode. Our interview this week is with veteran writer Al Sirois, based in North Carolina although he began writing in his home state of Connecticutt. We’ll conclude this episode with our check-in. However, first is our third Quick Tip. We’ve started our idea, and we’ve prepped the background. Now we

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