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Hosted by M.A. Lee · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 100 episodes
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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.
M.A. Lee hosts The Write Focus, a fiction show with 100 episodes published.
Writing is a Business. Yes, it is a creative endeavor … with a business result. I do not like to call my writing a Product. I think in projects, not products. Yet each blog post, short story, flash fiction, novel, guideb
Plan your Work, & Work your Plan. Back at Quick Tip 14 we talked about overcoming difficulties by setting work deadlines, using math skills to determine the number of writing days and how that time will fit into the cale
Tackling the next book requires three sets of seven. The Plot 7 determines the conflict that will drive the story. 7 Character Sets will develop the story’s heart and mind. Our focus in this segment will be the 7 Writing
As with the seven scenes that build the story, introduced in the last segment, seven character sets develop the story, increasing the conflict, intensifying suspense or adding complications. The four main characters who
In considering your next writing, what is your first approach? Many start with a situation: a thriller in the backwoods. Others start with character: a free-willing type faced with his two orphaned nieces. Or you wake up
Overcoming difficulties is a constant process, no matter which profession you enter. All my guidebooks on writing contain insights that I wish I had understood then. Instead, I nodded along, thinking I understood, but I
Alice followed the White Rabbit into a hole that dropped her into a strange world. Writing is like that, a hole into a strange wonderland. A project is an intriguing white rabbit luring us to follow even as it reminds us
Consider your Cover is Quick Tip #12. One of the greatest expenses that an indie writer will have is the cost of a professional cover. Yes, yes, people say that the editorial cost is the highest one. Development editors
Writing constantly, writing fast ~ these can outpace our creativity, leaving us drained. The answer is to Juggle Projects. I cannot simultaneously write two fiction projects; the projects we juggle have to be different.
“Cocoons” is the Quick Tip for Writing in this episode. When the words do not come as soon as we are ready to write, what can we do? We have to think like inchworms, the ones that eventually become beautiful butterflies.
Long before a writer pens the last word in a story and launches into the Proof-Plus, that writer is considering promotions. Promotions, marketing, that’s the same thing. So much of marketing depends on spare cash and goo
Every successful story, short or long, has two key elements. These two keys recur throughout the story. One takes a new form at every instance, teasing the reader into reading more. The other also teases the reader, but
In our second episode on antagonists, we discuss the additional evil actors that drive a plot, as much a part as our main character, our Protagonists. We offer three Quick Tips, first about our major antagonist and then
Pentecost concludes the Easter Season. Fifty days after the Resurrection, ten days after Ascension, it completes the jubilation that starts before sunrise on Easter Day with the Son’s rise. “He is risen” does not complet
In the Quick Tips series, episodes 6 and 7 are linked, for both are about antagonists, twisty and surprising antagonists. A truth of conflict is that a weak antagonist creates a weak Protagonist. Since we writers want ou
40. Forty days after Easter, the Resurrection of Christ Jesus, we have another important date to commemorate, a date that’s been part of the Christian Church since the early days. The first documented festival occurred i
As writers we control many things about our writing, but times do come when we lose control. And that is not a bad thing. It’s actually a blessing. That’s our topic: Be willing to lose control. The Write Focus offers the
Our topic this time is a little tricky, but we have a fairly simple solution—if we will use that solution. Here’s the question: How do I make my writing form a coherent story? Because if the story confuses us when we fin
We’re onto our third episode in the Quick Tips for Writers series. What are the three cornerstones of every story we write, no matter the length or genre or purpose? TIMINGS 00:40 Introduction 01:10 QT 3: Three Cornersto
In this second episode of the Quick Tips for Writers series, we look at another topic which trips writers up. Whether a total newbie or a seasoned writer, we all ask the same question. It’s the same questions every time
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