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2:68 / Challenges / Fall Writing Challenge

Accept Challenges, and one of the best-known and widely-utilized writing challenge is November’s National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo.

The goal of any challenge is to stretch yourself beyond where you currently are.

Here at The Write Focus, we’ve created our own writing challenges. Back in April of this year, we had a daily podcast challenge, presenting information that formed part of our daily writing challenge in April of 2019 (before the plague!).

Also last year, we started this podcast. Gearing up for the podcast and discovering how to do it had challenges that match to those that writers also confront. Here’s a break-down of the main areas for this week’s episode:

• The constant supply of content ~ the writer’s bane of steady working
• Knowing your market ~ know the genre and the audience
• Know the parts of the challenge ~ For the podcast, each episode has five separate segments. Each segment matches to a type of writing we have to do when we rough out a manuscript, draft it, then present it for consumption by an audience.
• Find the distribution system that works for your brain and your aesthetic and your marketing plan.
• Knowing the right equipment and tools makes the job simpler.

Accept your own challenges. Overcome your fears. Prep for NaNoWriMo, and go into that challenge with all your passion.

Welcome to the Fall Writing Challenge from The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. October is Preptober for November’s National Novel Writing Month, known commonly as NaNoWriMo. December will include the steps needed to turn November’s rough draft into a publishable work.

That’s our focus here: inspirations to keep you writing and knowledge to solve your writing issues along with guidance through the publishing process. We’re for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years ago.

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2:67 /Publish-Plus / Discovering Your Novel

We've reached the summer series' concluding episode with Publish-Plus. It's the four disparate jobs that take our finished novel into the marketplace: Presence, Promotions, Publish, and Party!

And celebrations are always important!

Next week, we have new content about challenges and what we've learned after a year of Podcasting.

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Resources and links associated with the summer series of Discovering Your Novel as well as the previous series: Write a Book in a Month and Think like a Pro (Writer) can be located at thewritefocus.blogspot.com.

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As always, write on.

2:66 / Harvest = Revision+ / Discovering Your Novel

We're on to the Harvest Stage.

What is Harvesting a Novel?

Revision, Enhancements, Editing

Harvesting a manuscript takes more than a single week’s worth of work. What is our focus for the three areas above?

• What areas does revision cover?
• How do we enhance our draft? (Motifs and Literary Devices to explore)
• Editing Rounds (several ways) with Corrections more than once

Our Summer Series is Discovering Your Novel. We focus on the craft and process of writing. Foundations, visioning, analysis, and revision & publishing stages, all to bring your novel into the world.

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2:65 / Analysis E / Discovering Your Novel

The Double D’s are this week's Write Focus. Double D’s are Designers and Deadlines (No, that’s not calenders or writing goals.)

Cover designers are essential when writers don’t also have degrees in graphic design. The first of this week’s episode covers what to expect with a professional designer.

Numbers rule publishing. Yes, words are essential, but the words are based on numbers, even for those in self-publishing.

We offer the standard word-count lengths for types of manuscripts (novels, short stories, etc.).

Then we list the standard word-count lengths for genres, the adult trade and children’s fiction markets.

We end with a reminder of the dual power of diligence for 1) daily writing set through 2) understanding manuscript lengths.

Our Summer Series is Discovering Your Novel. We focus on the craft and process of writing. Foundations, visioning, analysis, and revision & publishing stages, all to bring your novel into the world.

Thanks for listening to The Write Focus!

For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com  . 

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If you find value in this podcast, please share with your writing friends or write a review. (We don’t have the advertising budget of the big peeps.)

 

2:64 / Analysis D / Discovering Your Novel

In this episode of The Write Focus, it's the Space and Time Continuum for Writers

Space :: your writing space and essential tools

• Efficiency methods for writing
• Tools to save your eyes
• Methods to save your health
• Avoid distracters / Encourage concentration

Time :: your writing schedule

• Setting a writing calendar that you can maintain
• Commitments and obligations (including overcoming guilt)
• Jobs pay the bills
• What to avoid when Bum in Chair

Our Summer Series is Discovering Your Novel. We focus on the craft and process of writing. Foundations, visioning, analysis, and revision & publishing stages, all to bring your novel into the world.

For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com  . 

Write to us at winkbooks@aol.com.

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2:63 / Analysis C / Discovering Your Novel

In this episode: Defining your Writing Business ~ Decisions now need to consider five years from now.

We have 2 key decisions that will affect your author brand.

Then 4 jobs must be completed this week, before publishing comes rapidly upon us.

Don’t skimp on these decisions :: These are crucial to your readers, to other writers, and to your view of your writing self.

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Write on!

2:62 / Analysis B / Discovering Your Novel

In this episode ... Who are you as a writer? Method / Discipline / Story Sequence

How do you handle the challenging disruptions? They do happen. We can’t control the disruptions; only our actions and reactions.

Plan life to live life / Plan writing to live writing.

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As always, accept challenges and grow!

2:61 / Analysis A / Discovering Your Novel

Time to check the entire manuscript through pacing with the best plot method around. It’s matching the Archetypal Story Pattern – ASP – to all scenes and their sequels.

Scenes match? Great. Scenes missing? Time to write the missing, melding in with all our other scenes. Scenes almost work? Tinker until they match.

When we finish this week, we’ll need more objective distance before we launch into the Harvest stage. That works—because we have more analysis to do.

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Our summer series is winding up, with Analysis, Harvest, and Publish-Plus. Don't jump in before it's time! ;) 

2:60 / Envisioning F / Discovering Your Novel

Now comes the hardest part of the novel to write. We have scenes with angst, scenes with conflict, scenes that deliver the great story we want to tell.

What's the hardest part of the novel to write? And is it the hardest?

2nd question first: it's the hardest because we must maintain interest for the reader as we work with both creative muse and critical editor.

1st question: the Bridges between scenes. That''s right, we're completing our manuscript draft with Scenes and Sequels.  

Also, we consider viewpoint selection and how to build a great opening for the novel. The first sentence & scene sells the book (while the last scene sells the next book.)

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2:59 / Envisioning E / Discovering Your Novel

Minions of Evil -- 10. Count 'em.

Love Interest.

Tricksters.

Walk-Ons and Cameos.

In this episode, we focus on the Tertiary Characters for the novel that you want to write and that you want people to read and love.

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