The Write Focus

It's a Writing Challenge, every day in April. 

On this episode ~

How every book can require different approaches / 3 approaches briefly explained

Craft nonfiction to escape from the fiction problems

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It's a Writing Challenge, all through April.

On this episode ~

Anticipate disruptions and distractions to enable writing daily.

Some disruptions are necessary. Avoid the ones that aren't.

Develop new habits when the Life Rolls occur.

Get ready for changes -- the writing of each book is vastly different from all the other ones.

 

For resources and more, visit thewritefocus.blogspot.com

It's a Writing Challenge all through April.

In this episode ~

Leaving a stressful job and moving 100 miles is no guarantee we'll change our writing habits. Downsizing and other distractions will occur.

Math is actually helpful. The formula is Words to Days. (80,000 total divided by 60 days = 1,333 words each of those 60 days OR 1,500 words for 30 days = 45,000 words.)

For resources and more information, visit thewritefocus.blogspot.com

Topics is this episode~

Transition to Indie Publishing

Failures Drive Success

• Vague goals
• 4 days a week
• Misunderstanding specifics
• Thinking I know the steps to be a pro writer

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How to Start and Stop writing sessions

How to manage distractions, commitments, and obligations

Inspiration from Robert Heinlein and Robert Sawyer

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.

Evolution of a Writing Project

Patty Jansen's Self-Publishing Unboxed

Creativity and Business ~ odd companions

Inspiration from Anne Enright and E.B. White

The reason for the writing challenge.

Project, Project, Project.

Business Plan basics.

Inspiration from Toni Morrison and Louis L'Amour.

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.

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.