A Spring Writing Challenge / from 2021 / Offered by The Write Focus Podcast.

Daily entries to inspire you to Write a Book in a Month, by Remi Black.

Daily check-ins include the project stage progressing word count as well as speculations on writing in general and the writing business in particular.

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Criteria for the Challenge ::

1] Daily Word Count

2] Length to Goal

3] Reason for the Goal

 

Each of these daily episodes runs less than 10 minutes. Listen briefly every day or hoard up several episodes for when you fix a quick dinner, drive a short commute, or take a brisk walk.

Lessons for writing happen along the way!

Each episode from April 2021 will conclude with the two quotations from professional writers (Hemingway! Heinlein! Atwood! More!!!) that opened and closed a day’s writing session for Remi Black.

We’re currently in Season 5, in a Defeat Writer’s Block series, on Episode 5:08, so you will have to search to find these entries.

Episodes ::

March 31 :: Introduction and Writing Wonderland. It’s Episode 2:14. :: listen to the audio on Podbean here.

April 1 :: No Fooling / 2:15

April 2 :: Change of Plans / 2:16

April 3 :: Stick with the Plan / 2:17

April 4 :: Nix Distractions / 2:18

April 5 :: Watch for Warnings / 2:19

April 6 :: Life Rolls / 2:20

April 7 :: Win-Lose-Wind / 2:21

April 8 :: Critical vs. Creative / 2:22

April 9 :: Eat the Frog First / 2:23

April 10 :: The Tax Man Cometh / 2:24

April 11 :: Cocoons / 2:25

April 12 :: Six Words Short / 2:26

April 13 :: Wonders Never Cease / 2:27

April 14 :: One Project, Two Project / 2:28

April 15 :: Promotions / 2:29

April 16 :: Covers / 2:30

April 17 :: Frittery Jittery / 2:31

April 18 :: Flipping Out / 2:32

April 19 :: Input / Output / 2:33

April 20 :: Looking Ahead / 2:34

April 21 :: Short Post / 2:35

April 22 :: Biz Monday / 2:36

April 23 :: Master Book / 2:37

April 24 :: Expect the Unexpected / 2:38

April 25 :: Carpe Diem as Writers / 2:39

April 26 :: Nose to the Grindstone / 2:40

April 27 :: Writers’ Groups / 2:41

April 28 :: First Celebration / 2:42

April 29 :: Writers Conferences / 2:43

April 30 :: An End that’s Not an End and Lessons List / 2:44

 May 5th :: Aprés-Draft Update / 2:45

 

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Resources 

Amazon links are given because it’s easy, and for no other reason.

Purchase Write a Book in a Month at Amazon here.  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0848MWXGD

Also mentioned in the first 10 episodes (March 31 to April 5) ~

Patty Jansen’s Self Publishing Unboxed Amazon.com: Self-publishing Unboxed (The Three–year, No-bestseller Plan For Making a Sustainable Living From Your Fiction Book 1) eBook: Jansen, Patty: Kindle Store

Purchase Think/Pro at Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Think-like-Pro-Advent-Writers/dp/1983248266/

The Think/Pro planner for writers can be purchased here: https://www.amazon.com/Think-Pro-Planner-M-Lee/dp/1983248673/

Dwight V. Swain’s Techniques of the Selling Writer https://www.amazon.com/Techniques-Selling-Writer-Dwight-Swain/dp/0806111917/  

Anne Morrow Lindbergh Gifts from the Sea https://www.amazon.com/Gift-50th-Anniversary-Anne-Morrow-Lindbergh/dp/0679732411/

Marie Kondo The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up https://www.amazon.com/Life-Changing-Magic-Tidying-Decluttering-Organizing/dp/B00RC3ZGN4/ 

 

 

for Writers

The monster we call Writer’s Block has 3 manifestations, and we reveal them on The Write Focus podcast.

It’s a Series on this slimy bugbear > that really doesn’t exist.

Episodes started in February.

Introduction https://eden5695.podbean.com/e/506-defeat-writers-block-introduction/

Overcoming Type 1 https://eden5695.podbean.com/e/507-defeat-writers-block-overcoming-type-1/

Overcoming Type 2 https://eden5695.podbean.com/e/508-defeat-writers-block-type-2/

Overcoming Type 3 https://eden5695.podbean.com/e/509-defeat-writers-block-overcoming-type-3/?token=be9e8379ee2ebd4690d8f7f70ee115a5

 

And the episodes continue with Pro Writers’ Advice on Defeating Writer’s Block.

Right now, host M.A. Lee is prepping an episode for mid-April and is looking at topics into May.

Who knows how long this will take us? 

 

 

 

 

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What’s In a Name?

Everything.

Shakespeare may have claimed that “a rose by any other word would smell as sweet”. And we know that’s true for skunks … and cooked cabbage.

Yet Shakespeare proved that claim incorrect. His character Tybalt did care that a Montague had attended the Capulet banquet. He was furious that a Montague danced with his cousin Juliet. For that very reason, he challenged Romeo to a duel … and the tragedy rolled from there.

For writers ~

Names are The Most Important Writing Tool.

The Write Focus has three episodes discussing the importance of selecting names.

Episode One, aired on Nov. 11, offers brainstorming techniques and considerations when creatives select names.

Listen Here on Podbean

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Listen** here on YouTube

Read the transcript here. 

Episode Two, aired on Nov. 18, explores Pen Names.

Listen Here on Podbean.

Or here on YouTube (read the note below about YouTube )

The transcript is here.

Episode Three, aired today / Nov. 25, presents quick considerations with character names and picking titles for books & series.

Podbean is here

while YouTube is here,

and the Transcript is Here.

 

** I have attempted several times to offer the episodes on YouTube … and I will continue to do so BUT, while the Podbean cast contains no problems, the YouTube file uploads with lots of glitches. Don’t understand why. Still exploring that reason. Podbean has no problems, and the app is a free download.