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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 poem, which means that it expresses an emotion. We do have hints of a story but not really.
And we’re delving into the song by looking first at the word moron. Odd, I know. A little weird. But there you are.
TIMINGS
00:00 Welcome00:40 Introduction03:44 Oxymoron / Shakespeare07:52 Oxymoronic Characters08:03 “Little Lies”11:00 Stanza 2 Twist13:23 Summation for Writers14:20 Last Words / ClosingTotal Run Time = 16:26
LINKS
“Little Lies” performance https://youtu.be/uCGD9dT12C0
“Little Lies” lyrics https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/fleetwoodmac/littlelies.html
#fleetwoodmac #christinemcvie #littlelies #oxymoron #hamlet #romeoandjuliet #poets #fictionwriters #indiepublishingforwriters
Analysis is All Original Content / No AI Used
Link to Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2024/09/fall-into-poetry-sweet-lies.html
Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.
Our current focus is Fall into Poetry. Here’s a link to the first episode: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXi3M_aM-d7K1x02UAlihWKKom_5keJrg
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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 cosmic irony but didn’t truly comprehend the personal devastation of the character who sings it. Nor did I catch the revealing epiphany of the last line.
Many greats have performed it: Frank Sinatra, Judy Collins, Barbra Streisand, Judy Dench. The version in my head harkens to Bernadette Peters’ performance. First to perform it, though, and the singer for whom it was intended was Glynis Johns.
If you know Sondheim’s work, you’ve already guessed the song: “Send in the Clowns”.
TIMINGS
00:00 Welcome00:40 Introduction to “Send in the Clowns”02:58 Clear Communication03:30 Strong Imagery and Emotion08:52 Powerful Lines / Ballad13:10 Four Lessons for Fiction / Nonfiction Writers15:52 Last Words / ClosingTotal Run Time = 18:02
LINKS
Lyrics https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/judycollins/sendintheclowns.html
Performance by Bernadette Peters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZhmsp6iBQ
& by Glynnis Johns https://youtu.be/OAl-EawVobY
#stephensondheim #cosmicirony #ballad #sendintheclowns #writingpoetry #writingfiction #writingnonfiction
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[Fair Use declares that we can quote from copyrighted works by other writers as long as we use those quotations for analysis, explication, and teaching examples.]
Link to Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2024/09/fall-into-poetry-clown-faire.html
Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.
Our current focus is Fall into Poetry. Here’s a link to the first episode: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXi3M_aM-d7K1x02UAlihWKKom_5keJrg
Support the podcast with a cup of coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/winkbooksr
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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 a surface glance. We writers can learn from any writing style, poetry teaching fiction, dramas teaching nonfiction, any mix-up we can contemplate.
We begin with a story-song from the realm of popular music. This song’s endurance proves that it is memorable writing by one of our greatest modern songwriters, now sadly gone: “If You Could Read my Mind, Love” by Gordon Lightfoot, a ballad when most songs are lyrics.
If you’re unfamiliar with “Read my Mind”, then pause this podcast and head off to find a new song to add to your favorites list. Come back to hear our analysis. (Links Below)
Join The Write Focus all through autumn as we examine great poems that teach a multitude of lessons for all writers.
TIMINGS
00:00 Welcome00:40 Word Count Challenge / Final Check-in03:10 Fall into Poetry introduction05:40 “If You Could Read my Mind, Love”07:00 Four Requirements of Song13:57 “Read my Mind” as a Ballad14:55 Two Special Touches18:47 ClosingTotal Run Time: 19:49
LINKS
Lyrics for “Read my Mind” https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/gordonlightfoot/ifyoucouldreadmymind.html
YouTube performance of “Read my Mind” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK--A-IaZnA
Rick Beato’s analysis of the music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X33YyowZZxQ
Link to The Write Focus website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2024/09/fall-into-poetry-read-my-mind.html
#writing poetry #poetry #GordonLightfoot #Ifyoucouldreadmymind
Analysis is All Original Content / No AI Used
[Fair Use declares that we can quote from copyrighted works by other writers as long as we use those quotations for analysis, explication, and teaching examples.]
Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.
Our current focus is Fall into Poetry. Here’s a link to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC73Pe3yKV5HixAUjBNOg47A
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You can find workbooks and templates at Buy Me a Coffee. Available is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook and templates from the Discovering Characters Available Now: worksheet templates and a video trailer script for Discovering Your Author Brand.For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com .
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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 and had the Start2Finish recording to posting of the audio file when I reached home—with unpacking and laundry still to do. Yet I did squeeze out the words for this episode as I drank my two cups of coffee.
How did I do with the week, start to finish? Let’s do the check-in.
TIMINGS
00:00 Welcome
00:40 The Horrible Week
01:37 Check-In #4 begins
04:26 Friday Onward
09:34 Success vs. Failure
11:20 Closing
TOTAL RUN TIME = 12:19
All Original Content / No AI Used
Link to Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2024/08/word-count-challenge-check-in-4.html
Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.
Our current focus is the Word Count Challenge. Here’s a link to the YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXi3M_aM-d7KcgVD4ZFyCt54chOhRtiqI
Support the podcast with a cup of coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/winkbooksr
You can find workbooks and templates at Buy Me a Coffee. Available is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook and templates from the Discovering Characters Available Now: worksheet templates and a video trailer script for Discovering Your Author Brand.For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com .
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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 things were going on that prevented my finishing 500 fiction words.
And I’ve discovered issues with the daily push for new words, issues related to achieving the word count. Join in as we discuss creativity and challenging problems.
TIMINGS
00:00 Welcome00:40 Opening / Creativity vs. Filler06:43 Word Count Challenge Problems08:30 WCC Check-in #312:20 Success vs. Failure / Next Steps15:03 ClosingTotal Run Time = 16:05
All Original Content / No AI Used
Link to Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2024/08/word-count-challenge-check-in-3.html
Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.
Our current focus is the Word Count Challenge. Here’s a link to the YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXi3M_aM-d7KcgVD4ZFyCt54chOhRtiqI
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Hi, Everyone. It’s the second check-in for the Word Count Challenge here in August.
How have you done? Leave a comment about your goals and successes.
I’ve managed to meet my goal of 500 words daily, no matter the interruptions, and they were many. Things tugged at me every day of the past week. The massive part of the day is lost to writing but early mornings and late evenings have saved me—and twice, both evening and morning writing saved me.
At our last check-in, the first draft of the third short story was finished and needed a week’s separation before revision started. After errands in the cool morning, the writing part of Wednesday began: something forgotten, something needing fixin’, something on the To-Do List, and finally writing.
Stay connected to hear how the rest of the week continued.
TIMINGS
00:00 Welcome00:40 Word Count Challenge Check-in #204:55 Success or Failure?05:32 Next Steps07:40 ClosingTotal Run Time = 08:40
All Original Content / No AI Used
Link to Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2024/08/word-count-challenge-check-in-2.html
Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.
Our current focus is the Word Count Challenge. Here’s a link to the YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXi3M_aM-d7KcgVD4ZFyCt54chOhRtiqI
Support the podcast with a cup of coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/winkbooksr
You can find workbooks and templates at Buy Me a Coffee. Available is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook and templates from the Discovering Characters Available Now: worksheet templates and a video trailer script for Discovering Your Author Brand.For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com .
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Old Challenge vs. New Challenge ~ that’s the theme for this week’s episode.
We say goodbye to the Summer Writing Challenge, which tracked all the pesky jobs that writers have to do in addition to the writing, and we welcome in the August Word Count Challenge, which is the kind of challenge that writers want to focus on: NEW WORDS ONLY. No sketched words, just an estimate from the Rough, any overage in changing Rough to Draft as well as overage that comes with Revision and Proofing.
The only way to achieve the challenge consistently is to Write New Words Daily.
Join us as we challenge disruptions and distractions to derail us from a daily word count.
TIMINGS
00:00 Welcome00:40 Say Goodbye and Hello01:18 Last on the Summer Writing Challenge08: 35 Word Count Challenge for August09:40 First Check-in for the WCC12:43 ClosingTotal Run Time = 13:44
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Link to Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2024/07/old-challenge-vs-new-challenge-word.html
Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.
Our current focus is the Word Count Challenge.
Support the podcast with a cup of coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/winkbooksr
You can find workbooks and templates at Buy Me a Coffee. Available is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook and templates from the Discovering Characters Available Now: worksheet templates and a video trailer script for Discovering Your Author Brand.For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com .
Write to us at [email protected].
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Hi, all. It’s the last full week of the Summer Writing Challenge. We’ll have one last day to report in our first August episode. This week, though, finishes out our challenge.
Did I succeed? Did I fail? What can I do better? What changes can I make to be more successful in the future?
Let’s start with our day-to-day report before we answer those major questions.
TIMINGS
00:00 Welcome
00:40 Check in 9
02:10 Counting Projects this Year
03:20 Priorities, Goals, Boundaries
08:34 Hurry Up to Wait
10:10 Busy Monday
17:40 Final Day to Come / New Challenge
19:10 Last Words / Closing
Total Run Time = 21:04
All Original Content / No AI Used
Link to Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2024/06/summer-writing-challenge-check-in-9.html
Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.
Our current focus is the Summer Writing Challenge at this YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXi3M_aM-d7LEoaG-XelXEjBW_Xukjy3I
Support the podcast with a cup of coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/winkbooksr
You can find workbooks and templates at Buy Me a Coffee. Available is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook and templates from the Discovering Characters Available Now: worksheet templates and a video trailer script for Discovering Your Author Brand.For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com .
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Hi, all! It’s our 8th check-in for the Summer Writing Challenge. A little over a week to go to the end of July BUT not the end of the Summer Writing Challenge.
I’ve struggled and I’ve soared in this past week. It’s all a matter of juggling the bad with the good to keep a mental balance and motivation.
Last Wednesday, first day of our work week, is a perfect example of this juggling act.
We cover a lot this week, including characters who are ciphers and easy-out solutions to plots; objective distance; copyright, ideas, and the Fair Use doctrine; crafting newsletters and book descriptions, fiction and nonfiction; and our tally of Success vs. Failure.
We’ve a lot to discuss. Let’s do it.
TIMINGS
00:00 Welcome00:40 Check-in 82:00 Ciphers / Objective Distance7:00 Copyright, Ideas, and Fair Use10:26 Newsletters15:00 Book Descriptions, NonFiction and Fiction17:33 Success & Failure18:22 Last Words / ClosingTotal Run Time = 20:18
All Original Content / No AI Used
Link to Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2024/07/summer-writing-challenge-check-in-8.html
Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.
Our current focus is the Summer Writing Challenge at this YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXi3M_aM-d7LEoaG-XelXEjBW_Xukjy3I
Support the podcast with a cup of coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/winkbooksr
You can find workbooks and templates at Buy Me a Coffee. Available is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook and templates from the Discovering Characters Available Now: worksheet templates and a video trailer script for Discovering Your Author Brand.For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com .
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Hi, all. Time for Check-In #7 of our Summer Writing Challenge with the theme of “What’s Up, Doc?”
The challenge this week was to steady up and recover from last week’s losses. Luckily, most of my weekly activities are on hiatus in July although my personal commitment remain strong.
A Special BONUS this episode: 9 minutes from Dashiel Hammett on Accurate Details
TIMINGS
00:00 Welcome00:40 Check-in 702:01 Kanban Flow05:55 Sputter to Flow08:50 Research for Reality11:15 Failure vs. Success13:45 Dashiel Hammett on Accurate Details22:33 Last Words / ClosingTotal Run Time = 24:30
LINKS
KanbanFlow project board https://kanbanflow.com/
Audacity Recording Software https://www.audacityteam.org/
Bach Toccata and Fugue snippet, licensed from AudioJungle, by creator sviridpavlov https://audiojungle.net/
All Original Content / No AI Used
Link to Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2024/06/summer-writing-challenge-check-in-7.html
Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.
Our current focus is the Summer Writing Challenge at this YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXi3M_aM-d7LEoaG-XelXEjBW_Xukjy3I
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Write to us at [email protected].
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Hi, All! Welcome from the Land of the Lost ~ Lost Days, Lost Time, Lost Plans, Lost Chances.
That’s me this past week, and I’m still dealing with the aftermath. I’m also scouting the area to find out who infected me.
Yes, in a week when I knew I would lose three days before it started—the holiday, you know—I lost three more days because I came down with a horrid respiratory sickness, with coughing and crusty eyes as the bane of my existence. This episode is only coming to you with the assistance of powerful drugs that are slowly pulling me back from the brink. The doctor refused to give an infection window—but I have recon going to find the culprit.
To start the week with high hopes and to end with hopes in fragments on the ground … cue violins. Let’s talk about what did happen to the good and the little highlights that keep us going.
TIMINGS
00:00 Welcome00:40 Check-in #603:20 Task Lists / Incentives05:23 Rotating Promos08:35 Cover Design13:40 Writing Hell17:35 Writer’s 3-Part Mantra19:20 Last Words / ClosingTotal Run Time = 21:17
All Original Content / No AI Used
Link to the Blog Site: https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2024/06/summer-writing-challenge-6th-check-in.html
Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.
Our current focus is the Summer Writing Challenge at this YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXi3M_aM-d7LEoaG-XelXEjBW_Xukjy3I
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You can find workbooks and templates at Buy Me a Coffee. Available is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook and templates from the Discovering Characters Available Now: worksheet templates and a video trailer script for Discovering Your Author Brand.For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com .
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Hi, all! Herewith is our 5th check-in for the Summer Writing Challenge. We’ve started a new month; we still have the same goals.
Of everything that I expected to happen in June, that did happen, disruptions and distractions but also a slow-moving progress toward the goals. Of everything that I wanted to accomplish, not there yet.
Am I upset and frustrated by the disruptions? No.
Did I have some time-wasters? Yes. Do I want to kick myself for those. Yes and No.
Am I irretrievably behind? Well—One thing that I learned while in the business world and also in this writing realm is that nothing goes as smoothly as we plan.. Nothing actually functions like a regular work week. No matter where we are, disruptions occur.
We can have a Do or Die attitude about our writing … but I want to enjoy it.
I cannot enjoy it when I feel chained to the work, to constant on-demand performance.
And creativity suffers.
TIMINGS
00:00 Welcome00:40 The Do or Die Attitude06:15 Check-In #512:25 Be a Writer, All 13 Steps Listed13:27 Track Reality to Overcome Blinkered Thinking15:25 Last Words / ClosingTotal Run Time = 17:21
All Original Content / No AI Used
Link to Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2024/07/summer-writing-challenge-5th-check-in.html
Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.
Our current focus is the Summer Writing Challenge at this YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXi3M_aM-d7LEoaG-XelXEjBW_Xukjy3I
Support the podcast with a cup of coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/winkbooksr
You can find workbooks and templates at Buy Me a Coffee. Available is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook and templates from the Discovering Characters Available Now: worksheet templates and a video trailer script for Discovering Your Author Brand.For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com .
Write to us at [email protected].
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Hi, y’all! It’s been a hectic week of the expected and unexpected again, with so many things swirling about that it’s best to call this Challenge episode “Spinning Wheels” or “Tornadoes”.
“Spinning Wheels” seems more appropriate because I did gain headway in all three project areas. It’s a tornado, though, because—well, I’ll explain as I detail this week.
TIMINGS
00:00 Welcome00:40 Check-in #403:35 Major Goal Achieved!05:10 Three-Step Proofing07:11 Walk Away from a Problem11:03 Step 11 (continuing Be a Writer)13:22 Step 1215:50 Step 1317:30 Last Words / ClosingTotal Run Time = 19:25
All Original Content / No AI Used
Link to Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2024/06/summer-writing-challenge-4th-check-in.html
Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.
Our current focus is the Summer Writing Challenge.
Support the podcast with a cup of coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/winkbooksr
You can find workbooks and templates at Buy Me a Coffee. Available is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook and templates from the Discovering Characters Available Now: worksheet templates and a video trailer script for Discovering Your Author Brand.For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com .
Write to us at [email protected].
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Hi all! We’re onto our third check-in for the Summer Writing Challenge.
As usual, I’ve overloaded myself in contemplating everything that I want to accomplish for June and July. To complete everything may take me into August.
And I’ve already encountered one problem that may require me to extend the Challenge into August.
This means that I’ve bitten off much more than I should have with my three projects and the additional admission that I may switch a project mid-stream … if Project 2 continues giving trouble.
Let’s get into the nitty-gritty of the past week, before we discuss the problem and then head off into some musings from “Be a Writer”.
TIMINGS
00:00 Welcome00:40 3rd Check-In05:45 Problem!07:11 Be a Writer Step 708:30 Step 809:22 Step 910:50 Step 1012:05 Last Words / ClosingTotal Run Time = 14:00
All Original Content / No AI Used
Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.
Our current focus is the Summer Writing Challenge.
Support the podcast with a cup of coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/winkbooksr
You can find workbooks and templates at Buy Me a Coffee. Available is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook and templates from the Discovering Characters Available Now: worksheet templates and a video trailer script for Discovering Your Author Brand.For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com .
Write to us at [email protected].
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Link to the Blog Site https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2024/06/summer-writing-challenge-3rd-check-in.html
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Hi! It’s the 2nd Check-in for the Summer Writing Challenge, all through June and July, tracking not only words but also those other tasks that a write needs to do to pursue success.
For the first days of June, four days, Saturday to Tuesday, we had achievements on two of our projects in the Master Plan. Project 1 had 15,617 new words on the manuscript of Defeat Writers Block. Project 3, we had the 1st check-in Podcast, prep, draft, and everything involved in producing a podcast episode.
These past seven days, Wednesday to Tuesday, didn’t achieve as much.
Join us to hear what happened.
TIMINGS
00:00 Welcome00:40 Second Check-in04:49 Three Creative Stages for Writing07:35 Lessons from the Week08:40 Be a Writer Step 410:40 Step 512:25 Step 615:40 Last Words / ClosingTotal Run Time = 17:35
Link to Blogsite https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2024/06/summer-writing-challenge-2nd-check-in.html
Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.
Our current focus is the Summer Writing Challenge.
Support the podcast with a cup of coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/winkbooksr
You can find workbooks and templates at Buy Me a Coffee. Available is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook and templates from the Discovering Characters Available Now: worksheet templates and a video trailer script for Discovering Your Author Brand.For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com .
Write to us at [email protected].
If you find value in this podcast, please share with your writing friends or write a review. (We’re small beans. We don’t have the advertising budget of the big peeps. You can make a difference.)
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Welcome to our 1st Check-in for this Summer Writing Challenge, tracking not only words but also other tasks that a writer needs to pursue success. We began tracking on June 1, and we’ll continue to July 31.
As part of my Master Plan, I have three projects.
Turning the Defeat Writer’s Block series into audiobook, ebook, and paperback.A massive project writing five short story, creating audiofiles for 15 stories, and publishing the 5-story collection and the 15-stoory bundle in ebook, paperback, and audiobook.All the miscellaneous tasks that writers do, including this podcastThe check-ins will list what occurred with the projects as well as classifying them as successes or failures.
We’ll conclude with five minutes or so of inspirational musings on writing.
TIMINGS
00:00 Welcome00:40 1st Check-in06:50 Be a Writer07:35 Step 108:14 Step 209:28 Step 311:55 Last Words / ClosingTotal Run Time = 13:51
Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.
Our current focus is the Summer Writing Challenge.
Support the podcast with a cup of coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/winkbooksr
You can find workbooks and templates at Buy Me a Coffee. Available is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook and templates from the Discovering Characters Available Now: worksheet templates and a video trailer script for Discovering Your Author Brand.For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com .
Write to us at [email protected].
If you find value in this podcast, please share with your writing friends or write a review. (We’re small beans. We don’t have the advertising budget of the big peeps. You can make a difference.)
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All through June and July, The Write Focus turns its lens to the Summer Writing Challenge, 61 days of writing as well as presenting all the other tasks that writers should be doing in their writing business.
In addition to tracking our progress on writing projects, we’ll cover market copy, cover designers, promotional posts, and newsletters as well as audio projects. These are just a sample of the myriad additional tasks performed by every writer, indie or traditionally published.
Podcast posts covering the previous week’s work will be recorded on Tuesday evenings for publishing on Wednesday mornings.
Join us as we detail the accomplishments and failures for every writer’s Summer Challenge.
TIMINGS
00:00 Welcome00:40 Opening01:35 Raison d’Etre / Introduction04:15 Project 104:55 Project 207:05 Project 307:55 Prep Work11:26 Last Words / ClosingTotal Run Time :: 12:26
Blog Site Link https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2024/05/summer-writing-challenge-introduction.html
Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.
Our current focus is the Summer Writing Challenge.
Support the podcast with a cup of coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/winkbooksr
You can find workbooks and templates at Buy Me a Coffee. Available is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook and templates from the Discovering Characters Available Now: worksheet templates and a video trailer script for Discovering Your Author Brand.For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com .
Write to us at [email protected].
If you find value in this podcast, please share with your writing friends or write a review. (We’re small beans. We don’t have the advertising budget of the big peeps. You can make a difference.)
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This year and the next are celebratory years for me. I began publishing in 2015 and podcasting in 2020 (yes, that coronacoaster year). It’s time for a retrospective, totting up the gains, cringing at the worst failures (some of which will never see the light of day), and dwelling on the chief lessons. You know, what I do wish that I’d known before launching into the ocean realm of writing.
The ocean of writing is a great metaphor. Writing has depths that no one will ever reach. Each writer is a tiny ship surging through the billowing waves. We dwell on the surface with only forays into the upper levels.
Where does this Writing Retrospective begin? Before publication, where all writing begins. We’ll also look at where my arrogant brain tried to take me in 2021, and finally a mistake that I keep making and having to re-learn. Geez, I know I’m slow, but still.
So, herewith, a Retrospective of Writing Regrets.
TIMINGS
00:00 Welcome00:40 Introduction02:02 Regret 106:11 Regret 210:17 Regret 313:05 Final Words14:11 ClosingTotal Run Time :: 15:12
All Original Content / No AI Used
Link to Blog https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2024/05/wish-id-known-writing-retrospective.html
Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.
Our current focus is Defeat Writer’s Block, from host M.A. Lee’s guidebook Think like a Pro: a New Advent for Writers.
Support the podcast with a cup of coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/winkbooksr
You can find workbooks and templates at Buy Me a Coffee. Available is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook and templates from the Discovering Characters Available Now: worksheet templates and a video trailer script for Discovering Your Author Brand.For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com .
Write to us at [email protected].
If you find value in this podcast, please share with your writing friends or write a review. (We’re small beans. We don’t have the advertising budget of the big peeps. You can make a difference.)
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We don’t often take the time to look back, to do a retrospection. We track our accomplishments and diligently write down the small steps that take us to our short-term goals and on to our long-term ones.
If we’re good little bunnies, we check our Master Plan once a year and rewrite it every third or fifth or seventh year. I can’t imagine a 10-year Master Plan. I had to drop back from five to three because my plans change so much. I get new information. I clarify my goals I shove things forward that I wasn’t able to accomplish when I first envisioned them through rosy-colored glasses.
Even so—when we do stop and look back, we should consider all we’ve gained, all we’ve learned, and share that with others. Advice along the lines of “Wish I’d Known”.
Let’s start this two-episode Retrospective with Podcasting, especially since many people are exploring podcasting as a new endeavor They’ve leapened into TikTok and Instagram, and now they’re contemplating the longer format of podcasting.
TIMINGS
00:00 Welcome
00:40 Introduction
02:20 Podcast Retrospective
04:25 Podcast Decisions
06:25 Minor Wishes 1 & 2
07:40 Minor Wish 3
10:10 Major Wishes 1 & 2
12:35 Major Wish 3
14:15 Major Wish 4 & 5
15:28 Final Greatest Wish (8 total)
15:58 Closing
Total Run Time = 16:59
All Original Content / No AI Used
Link to Blog https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2024/05/wish-id-known-podcast-retrospective.html
Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.
Our current focus is Defeat Writer’s Block, from host M.A. Lee’s guidebook Think like a Pro: a New Advent for Writers.
Support the podcast with a cup of coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/winkbooksr
You can find workbooks and templates at Buy Me a Coffee. Available is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook and templates from the Discovering Characters Available Now: worksheet templates and a video trailer script for Discovering Your Author Brand.For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com .
Write to us at [email protected].
If you find value in this podcast, please share with your writing friends or write a review. (We’re small beans. We don’t have the advertising budget of the big peeps. You can make a difference.)
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A handful of years ago, after I had started publishing, I stumbled across Phyllis A. Whitney’s Guide to Fiction Writing.
Originally published in 1982, that date was 6 years before the Mystery Writers of America gave her a Grand Master award for Lifetime Achievement and 8 years before a similar award came from the Romance Writers of America.
When she died in 2008, Whitney had published more than 70 novels, mostly for adults but a few for young teenagers were also in that total. Whitney has also been described as an inspiration for the founding of the Sisters in Crime organization. There’s a whole back story to that; needless to say, MWA and the reviewers and more were giving scant attention to women writers in the mystery field.
Many current writers decry Whitney as “Old School”. Indeed, the writers that I’ve focused on for this series on Defeating Writer’s Block—Gardner and Delton, Stewart and Whitney—have done what current names in the publishing business have not. They have numerous published works which have endured past their writing lives.
They are all “Old School”. Paper-based. With writer’s notebooks in binders and journals rather than software apps.
But their advice is highly valuable to us, for we want they achieved: long-term writing success that didn’t succumb to Writer’s Block.
And Whitney gives us the largest and strongest and final key to Defeating Writer’s Block.
TIMINGS
00:00 Welcome00:40 Introduction02:30 Old School Writers vs. New School Ones06:48 Viewing Our Writing Selves11:00 Scheduling15:43 Growing the Story18:34 Sparking New Ideas24:55 Last Words / ClosingTotal Run Time = 26:23
SOURCE
Whitney, Phyllis A. Guide to Fiction Writing. The Writer, Inc. Publishers, 1982. https://www.amazon.com/Guide-fiction-writing-Phyllis-Whitney/dp/087116129X/
Blog https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2024/05/defeat-writers-block-whitneys-solutions.html
Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.
Our current focus is Defeat Writer’s Block, from host M.A. Lee’s guidebook Think like a Pro: a New Advent for Writers.
Support the podcast with a cup of coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/winkbooksr
You can find workbooks and templates at Buy Me a Coffee. Available is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook and templates from the Discovering Characters Available Now: worksheet templates and a video trailer script for Discovering Your Author Brand.For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com .
Write to us at [email protected].
If you find value in this podcast, please share with your writing friends or write a review. (We’re small beans. We don’t have the advertising budget of the big peeps. You can make a difference.)
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