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6:43 / On Hiatus / The Write Focus October 29, 2025
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 October 22, 2025
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 […]
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6:41 / Fall into Poetry with Poets / donalee Moulton October 15, 2025
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 […]
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6:40 / Fall into Poetry with Poets / Janet Innes October 8, 2025
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 […]
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6:39 / Fall into Poetry with Poets / Michael Cody October 1, 2025
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 […]
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6:38 / Fall into Poetry with Poets / Pam Ebel September 24, 2025
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 […]
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6:37 / Fall into Poetry with Poets / Joan Leotta September 17, 2025
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 […]
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6:36 / Summer Writing Challenge / Week 15 & Interview with Reiner Prochaska September 10, 2025
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. […]
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6:35 / Summer Writing Challenge / Week 14 & Interview with Ryan Hines September 3, 2025
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 […]
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6:34 / Summer Writing Challenge / Week 13 & Interview with Todd Goodlett August 27, 2025
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 […]
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