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The Write Focus

著者: M.A. Lee
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Successful writing requires The Write Focus. Hosted by M.A. Lee with occasional forays from Remi Black and Edie Roones, we focus on productivity / tools / craft / process for fiction and nonfiction, entertainment and academic writing.Copyright 2020 All rights reserved.
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  • 6:28 / Summer Writing Challenge / Interview with Ron Katz
    2025/07/16

    Welcome to our mid-July week for the Summer Writing Challenge.

    Our interview introduces Ron Katz, who brands his mysteries as The Sleuthing Silvers.

    We open with a Quick Tip on Antagonists and close with a Check-In. I’m burning ahead to my goal—which is always a good place to be.

    On to the episode!

    • Ron Katz, a lifetime Baby Boomer, was a trial lawyer for over four decades. A Rhodes Scholar, in 2016 he was a Fellow at Stanford University’s Distinguished Careers Institute, which inspired him to start a new writing career.
    • He has given a one-hour presentation, “Becoming a Mystery Writer at Age 74”, to numerous groups in person and by Zoom. For more information, visit his website https://www.thesleuthingsilvers.com

    TIMINGS

    • 00:40 Welcome and Quick Tip # 7
    • 3:30 Ron Katz’s Interview
    • 18:17 Check-In # 7
    • 20:18 Closing

    Total Run Time = 20:52

    LINKS

    Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2025/07/628-summer-writing-challenge-interview.html

    Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.

    Our current focus is Summer Writing Challenge, 13 episodes every Wednesday in June, July, and August, to achieve 65,000 words or 5K a week. We’ll have a quick tip on writing, interviews from writers on challenges, and check-ins. Here’s a link to the YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXi3M_aM-d7KE2gUjunhC7MgkXmsLiQap

    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. Available is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook and templates from the Discovering Characters
    • Available Now: 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.)

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    21 分
  • 6:27 / Summer Writing Challenge / Wk 6 & Interview with donalee Moulton
    2025/07/09

    July 9 means we’re in the 6th week of the Summer Writing Challenge.

    Returning to us in this episode is donalee Moulton, a great writer living in one of my favorite locations, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

    We open with a Quick Writing Tip on Using Twists then close with a Check-In, as usual.

    donalee Moulton’s first mystery book Hung out to Die was published in 2023. A historical mystery, Conflagration!, was published in 2024. It won the 2024 Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense (Historical Fiction). donalee has two new books coming out in 2025, Bind and Melt, the first novels in a new series, the Lotus Detective Agency.

    A short story “Swan Song” was one of 21 selected for publication in Cold Canadian Crime. It was shortlisted for an Award of Excellence. Other short stories have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines. donalee’s short story “Troubled Water” was shortlisted for a 2024 Derringer Award and a 2024 Award of Excellence from the Crime Writers of Canada.

    donalee is an award-winning freelance journalist. She has written articles for print and online publications across North America including The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Lawyer’s Daily, National Post, and Canadian Business. As well, donalee is the author of The Thong Principle: Saying What You Mean and Meaning What You Say and co-authored the book, Celebrity Court Cases: Trials of the Rich and Famous.

    TIMINGS

    • 00:40 Welcome and Quick Tip # 6
    • 04:46 Interview with donalee Moulton

    The Wide Set of Writing Challenges / Repeating Challenges / Challenges when Writing in Different Genres / Developing a Second Skin / Conflicting Feedback / Acquiring Objective Distance / New Releases in a Series

    • 29:17 Check-In # 6
    • 33:18 Closing

    Total Run Time = 34:17

    Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.

    Our current focus is Summer Writing Challenge, 13 episodes every Wednesday in June, July, and August, to achieve 65,000 words or 5K a week. We’ll have a quick tip on writing, interviews from writers on challenges, and check-ins. Here’s a link to the YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXi3M_aM-d7KE2gUjunhC7MgkXmsLiQap

    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. Available is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook and templates from the Discovering Characters
    • Available Now: 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.)

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    34 分
  • 6:26 / Summer Writing Challenge / Week 5 & Interview with Karen Grose
    2025/07/02

    Midsummer brings us to July, and we start July with an interview of Toronto writer Karen Grose.

    Before the interview, we have a Quick Writing Tip: Don’t completely panic when characters take over the story. It’s then that we cede control of the story to them.

    After our interview, we close with the 5th Check-In.

    We’re early days still for our writing challenge and the novella that I’ve chosen to write.

    Share your successes and problems AND solutions in the Comments.

    Karen Grose’s debut novel, The Dime Box, was selected by Amnesty International for its 2021 Book Club. The Chinese language version, retitled as The Lost Daughters, was published by Sharp Point Press, Taiwan, in 2023. Karen’s second and third novels are Flat Out Lies and All June Left Behind.

    Karen has flash, poems and short stories in journals and anthologies, both in print and online. She is a member of Crime Writers of Canada, Sisters-in-Crime-Toronto and National, and the #thrillsandchills writing group. Track her down on X: @kgrose2, IG: karengrosewrites, FB or at www.karengrose.ca

    TIMINGS

    • 00:40 Welcome and Quick Tip # 5
    • 03:18 Interview with Karen Grose

    Her Writing / Revising based on Themes / Using Writers’ Groups / Paying it Forward / Newest Release

    • 21:40 Check-In # 5
    • 24:50 Closing

    Total Run Time = 26:00

    LINKS

    Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2025/07/626-summer-writing-challenge-wk-5-and.html

    Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.

    Our current focus is Summer Writing Challenge, 13 episodes every Wednesday in June, July, and August, to achieve 65,000 words or 5K a week. We’ll have a quick tip on writing, interviews from writers on challenges, and check-ins. Here’s a link to the YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXi3M_aM-d7KE2gUjunhC7MgkXmsLiQap

    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. Available is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook and templates from the Discovering Characters
    • Available Now: 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.)

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    26 分

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