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5:17 / Defeat Writer's Block / Storyteller and Story Teacher April 24, 2024
Many writers—newbies, early wannabees, flash-ins before they flash out—many of these writers never reach the mature writer’s self-analysis stage. These writers don’t learn to seek new methods when the story won’t flow. They don’t seek solutions to plot conundrums and character rebellions. They don’t analyze their writing blocks and seek ways around or over or […]
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5:16 / Defeat Writer's Block / M Stewart on the Writing Flow April 17, 2024
A funny thing happened on the way through entertainment this past weekend. I read Mary Stewart’s The Stormy Petrel. That’s not the funny thing. Mary Stewart is my all-time favorite author. Wonderful character development, intriguing plots, lovely lyrical writing. She’s a guaranteed satisfying entertainment. My favorite novel of hers is My Brother Michael with The […]
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5:15 / Defeat Writer's Block / Avoid These Mistakes part 2 April 10, 2024
When we’re browsing for information to help our own particular problems, we reach for the weighty titles, the ones that analyze to the nth degree and provide six or seven or thirteen examples. That kind of information scan would miss Judy Delton’s surprisingly valuable little guidebook The 29 Most Common Writing Mistakes and How to […]
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5:14 /Defeat Writer's Block / Avoid These Mistakes April 3, 2024
Writers read. In reading we are voracious consumers of anything that catches our eye. We may also be hoarders, little dragons perched on a Keep-Forever Book Stack, surrounded by a myriad of smaller To-Be-Read stacks: This Stack First, This Stack Second, This Later, Helpful Stuff, I Wanna But Not Now, Maybe Later, I Dunno, and […]
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5:13 / Defeat Writer's Block / More Techniques from Gardner March 27, 2024
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 […]
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5:12 / Defeat Writer's Block / How One Pro Won the Battle March 20, 2024
66,000 words per week 140 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 […]
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5:11 / Defeat Writer's Block / Pro Writers part B March 13, 2024
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 […]
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5:10 / Defeat Writer's Block / Pro Writers part A March 6, 2024
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 […]
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5:09 / Defeat Writer's Block / Overcoming Type 3 February 28, 2024
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 […]
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5:08 /Defeat Writer's Block / Overcoming Type 2 February 21, 2024
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 […]
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