The Write Focus

2:18 / Nix Distractions / Write a Book in a Month

How to Start and Stop writing sessions

How to manage distractions, commitments, and obligations

Inspiration from Robert Heinlein and Robert Sawyer

2:17 / Stick with the Plan / Write a Book in a Month

Writing can be an escape ... until it's a trap.

Worrying about creative burn-out ... and ways to avoid.

Inspiration from Ray Bradbury and Margaret Atwood.

2:16 / Change of Plans / Write a Book in a Month

Evolution of a Writing Project

Patty Jansen's Self-Publishing Unboxed

Creativity and Business ~ odd companions

Inspiration from Anne Enright and E.B. White

2:15 / No Fooling / Write a Book in a Month

The reason for the writing challenge.

Project, Project, Project.

Business Plan basics.

Inspiration from Toni Morrison and Louis L'Amour.

2:14 / Writing Wonderland and a Writing Challenge

We have three rules for our Writing Wonderland.

What makes our writing wonderland possible?

Always remember: writing is a solitary business.

All through April we have a writing challenge. We're posting daily episodes, less than 10 minutes, with our challenge to *Write a Book in a Month*.

Daily we'll have a check-in with our project stage, daily and progressing word count, and speculations on writing and the writing business. Process posts, you know! We'll also give the inspirational quotations that started and ended each writing session.

And lessons in each session!

For today, after *Into Wonderland*, it's the introduction to Write a Book in a Month by Remi Black.

2:13 / One Resolution / Think like a Pro / 7

The last lesson to convert to a professional writer's mindset? Resolved.

From writing resolutions to adjusting them, juggling projects and finding a mantra, and winding up with 3 Actions every writer needs.

The last one is the hardest of all, yet it is the only one that guarantees long-term success.

Show notes and resources links are at thewritefocus.blogspot.com.

2:12 / Tax Tips for Writers / Think like a Pro / 6B

What kinds of expenses can you deduct as a writer on your tax filing? We cast off the foolish wishes and go for logic. Writing requires thinking of it as a small business ... because we're selling products from our intellectual property.

Hopefully, this episode will rattle some ideas that you hadn't considered.

Visit https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/ for a full transcript as well as resources.

2:11 / Creativity: Wake Up! / Think like a Pro / ch. 6

Awaken your subconscious to improve creativity!

That’s today on The Write Focus. It’s chapter 6: One Slice of Advice from Think like a Pro: New Advent for Writers by M.A. Lee

Between Revision and the Final Edit, give a project a brief sleep to awaken the dreaming creativity.

• Between Revision and the Final Edit, give a Project a brief sleep.
• This will reawaken the creative muse for this particular project.
• After the Sleep, Visit any new Ideas about the Project and Discover how to Work them in.

Additional Topics

• Why to Awaken Creativity
• How to Awaken Creativity
• What to Do while Projects Sleep
• 10 Creative Sparks
• Repairs / ReStocking / Re-Considering (3 to Track)
• Ending the Season of Sleep

For links and resources, head over to thewritefocus.blogspot.com.

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2:10 /Think like a Pro / 5C Writer's Block part 3

How do we fight a monster that doesn’t exist? Writer’s Block doesn’t exist—at least, that’s our claim. Bring it up at your next writing meeting, though, and you’ll spark off a huge argument.

We’ve discovered that what we “call” Writer’s Block is actually Writer’s Refusal—which has simple solutions—and Writer’s Procrastination—with harder solutions to implement. Now we hit the true work-stoppage monster of Writer’s Inertia.

The Write Focus offers 4 Healthy Habits to stave off depressing doldrums and do-nothing lethargy. (Clinical depression is not doldrums and lethargy—seek help!)

Physical problems, however, don’t account for all of Inertia. That includes the slime of stagnation. How do we overcome this?

For resources and links, visit thewritefocus.blogspot.com

2:9 / Think like a Pro / 5B / Writer's Block part 2

What’s the greatest monster that writers face in every writing session? Writer’s Block. Yet Writer’s Block doesn’t exist.

Our work stoppages manifest in three ways. This episode looks at Writer’s Procrastination ~ which is caused by two Fears.

Discover how to overcome those fears.

Take a quiz to determine which type of work stoppage that you have.

And remember, Writer’s Block doesn’t exist. It’s actually something else.

For resources and links, go to thewritefocus.blogspot.com