October 2020 - Writers Ink Nonfiction

October 27, 2020

1 :: 4 What’s Horrifying for Writers?

5 Major Horrors Every Writer Will Face, from Writer’s Block to Crash and Burn.

Find the transcript with resources at this link.

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October 21, 2020

1 :: 3 Write the Novel

For Newbie Writers: How to take ideas and turn them into a story. A brief intro to the best plotting method around.

Find the show notes here: https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2020/09/for-newbie-writers-write-novel.html

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October 14, 2020

1 :: 2 ~ 3 Notta Mistakes for Newbie Writers

Newbie Writers make mistakes when launching their careers. Here are 3 Notta Mistakes that writer M.A. Lee managed to stumble into when she launched in 2015.

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October 7, 2020December 24, 2020

The Write Focus ~ Inaugural Episode

Find the transcript for the first episode at this link. New episodes are posted every Wednesday on The Write Focus.

7 Newbie Writer Mistakes

October 7, 2020

1 :: 1 ~ 7 Newbie Writer Mistakes

What mistakes did pro writers make as newbies? Here are 7 mistakes.

Find the transcript at this link. Also mentioned: Fiction Sales Copy, a course offered by Dean Wesley Smith & WMG Publishing & his nightly blog. WMG Courses on Teachable

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3:20 /Sequences / Enhancement series May 11, 2022
We're going from A to Z this week, as we discuss Sequences, the last of the Enhancement series. Climbing higher and higher = foothills, ridges, mountains. Getting worse and worse = aged, ancient, decrepit. Listen up to discover ways to sequence, progress / regress, ascend / descend, and create clever jumps in meaning. 1:10 opening […]
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3:19 / Opposites part 2 / Enhancements series May 4, 2022
“I always lie.” There’s a conundrum for you. If we tell people that we’re lying—are we lying or telling the truth? Yes? No? Difficult to tell, isn’t it? The opposites in this week’s episode offers 3 types that can quickly entangle us. If you’ve ever been mixed up about paradox, irony, or satire, this episode […]
M.A. Lee
3:18 / Opposites part 1 / Enhancement series April 27, 2022
Opposites / Dichotomies are the foundation for all ideas. The positive / negative synergy develops concepts for finance and commerce, business and manufacturing, science and tech, fiction and nonfiction, art static and art dramatic. The world also has its triads and quarternaries ~ past / present / future and earth / air / water / […]
M.A. Lee
3:17 / Repetition pt. 2 / Enhancements series April 20, 2022
Repetition. We focused on simple repetition in the previous episode, from the riding, riding, riding of “The Highwayman” up to the old inn door to the clever use of incremental repetition, with “I’ve looked at cloud … and love … and life” in Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now”, and to alliteration of “streaming rain, blinding […]
M.A. Lee
3:16 / Repetition pt. 1 / Enhancements series April 13, 2022
“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow / Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.” Why are we quoting the famous Macbeth speech by Shakespeare? It has two separate types of repetition. The 1st type is simple repetition with two instances. The 2nd type is a repetition of opening sounds. In this episode we’re also […]
M.A. Lee
3:15 / Inversions / Enhancements J April 6, 2022
“Always in motion is the future.” Do you recognize that quotation? You may be able to because the words are out of natural order. It’s Yoda! No, we’re not going to talk about Yoda and the Star Wars franchise or laser swords. Our focus for this episode is Words Out of Natural Order. That happens […]
M.A. Lee
3:14 / Allegory part 2 / Enhancements I March 31, 2022
Mystical wanderer. Dark desert highway. A ragged prince who turns into a toad. The beast of fame that cannot be killed. Recognize these images? Yep, it’s Carole King’s “Tapestry”, a riddling allegory that questions more than it answers, and “Hotel California” by the Eagers, another allegory of Fame and the goddess Fortuna. “Hotel California” has […]
M.A. Lee
3:14 / Allegory part 2 / Enhancements I March 30, 2022
Mystical wanderer. Dark desert highway. A ragged prince who turns into a toad. The beast of fame that cannot be killed. Recognize these images? Yep, it’s Carole King’s “Tapestry”, a riddling allegory that questions more than it answers, and “Hotel California” by the Eagers, another allegory of Fame and the goddess Fortuna. “Hotel California” has […]
M.A. Lee
3:13 / Allegory part 1 / Enhancements H March 23, 2022
Ever heard a story, and just know, know that something extra is also part of the story? Not hidden bits and pieces but a whole narrative? A top story is running along, but another story runs underneath the surface, occasionally poking up the periscope for a look around before re-submerging so it can run silent, […]
M.A. Lee
3:12 / Archetype and Allusion / Enhancements G March 16, 2022
Last episode I had a major oopsie. Almost finished recording three tools (imagery / archetype / allusion) for our Enhancement Writer’s Toolbox, and I realized the recording had approached 40 minutes. Quelle surprise! Now I stumble over words and pause and take long breaths, but I know—know—that I wouldn’t have enough errors to lose 20 […]
M.A. Lee