Defeat Writer’s Block

Don’t fear the great *unmentioned unmentionable* for writers. cover by Emily R. Dunn

Let’s DEFEAT WRITER’S BLOCK.

How do we defeat Writer’s Block?

  • Strategies to tackle that monster.
  • Advice from other 15 best-selling writers.
  • Detailed explanations to start doing now!

This book comes direct from The Write Focus podcast and its host M.A. Lee.

Suffering every writer’s serious malady of writer’s block?

We may say the mantra “Writer’s Block doesn’t exist”, but something more than simple disruptions and distractions can interfere with our writing, creating insurmountable walls.

The Write Focus analyzes the three most common types and offers solutions to Overcome and Defeat this monster looming over the writer’s desk.

The best solution, though, is Leo Tolstoy’s mantra: No days without lines :: Nulla dies sine linea. Make that your own mantra.

Published August 8.

Ebook from Worldwide Distributors like Kobo, B&N, and more:  Find it here.

Ebook and Paperback from amazing Amazon: Also on preorder, available on the 8th.

Audiobook also available (although some distributors may not have the book available for 30 days from publication. Ah well.).

Available Now: Storytel / https://www.storytel.com/se/sv/books/defeat-writers-block-think-like-a-pro-writer-6-8875896 

and Libro /  https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9798988473985

Coming Soon to Apple, Audible, Chirp, Kobo, and more!

created by Emily R. Dunn
Audiobook and Ebook publishing in the Summer as part of the Summer Writing Challenge.

Chapters

  1. Introduction
  2. Overcoming Type 1: Refusal, easy to defeat
  3. Overcoming Type 2: Procrastination, difficult
  4. Overcoming Type 3: Inertia, the worst
  5. Pro Writers’ Advice, part A ~ 5 best-selling writers speak on writer’s block and how they defeated it
  6. Pro Writers’ Advice, part B ~ 6 best-sellers talk about writer’s block and strategies
  7. How One Pro Writer Defeated the Monster ~ Erle Stanley Gardner and his strategies
  8. More Techniques from Erle Stanley Gardner
  9. Avoid These Mistakes, part A ~ offered by Judy Delton
  10. Avoid These Mistakes, part B ~ more to avoid from J. Delton
  11. Mary Stewart on Writing Flow ~ shared by her in her novel The Stormy Petrel
  12. Storyteller and Story Teacher ~ Kate Wilhelm’s remembrances on writing barriers
  13. Burnham Talks Block ~ Sophie Burnham devotes a chapter to writer’s block in her book On Writing
  14. Whitney’s Solutions ~ America’s first great writer of romantic suspense, Phyllis A. Whitney shares many techniques in her book Guide to Fiction Writing

The book comes from the series of the same name on the podcast The Write Focushosted by M.A. Lee with the assistance of Edie Roones and Remi Black. The podcast is a presentation of Writers’ Ink Books.

Branding is The Write Focus

All through July and August. The Write Focus podcast presents BRANDING for a book, a series, and a writer’s business.

cover by Deranged Doctor Design

To hook readers, savvy writers manipulate cover imagery, titles, and the back cover market copy. With the right keys, presented in this series, writers will learn how to generate a brand for a book and a series. This knowledge will translate to their own writing business.

The series is based on M.A. Lee’s guidebook Discovering Your Author Brand, part of the Discovering series.

  • July 5 History and Keys
  • July 12 First Impressions Matters with Glance I and Keys One and Two
  • July 19 Clever Iconography and Keys Three and Four
  • July 26 More on Iconography and Keys Five and Six
  • August 2 Clever Titling
  • August 9 Market Copy: Taglines and Blurbs
  • August 16 Branding, Curious Readers, and a Blurb Script
  • August 23 Books Trailers and Video Clips
  • August 30 Key Fundamentals for Trailers

Thanks for listening to the Podcast. (Links below)

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. Just up is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook and templates from the Discovering Characters Coming soon are 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 winkbooks@aol.com.

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.)

Listen on your favorite podcast site: from Apple to YouTube, Spotify and Podbean (my favs), Google Play, Amazon Music and Audible, Samsung and Player FM, Deezer and Podcaster, the rivals iHeart and Tune-in, and too many to list.

Here are the 4 easiest. Make us a favorite, and follow along easy-peasy, once a week, while you fix a quick dinner, drive a short commute, or take a brisk walk.

My favorite podcast is Podbean. Here’s a direct link to the first episode in the series on that service. https://eden5695.podbean.com/e/428-branding-the-key-for-writers-to-reach-readers/?token=0df527c4f966d5a924de4f2dc2d7425a 

YouTube direct link to the Branding Playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXi3M_aM-d7L4OtDk2Bde7LDwQ2l7K8NE

Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-write-focus/id1546738740%20

Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4fMwknmfJhkJxQvaaLQ3Gm?si=ffeb71ed17c3409d