The Write Focus

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.

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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

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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?

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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.

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Writer's Block doesn't exist.

That's heresy in the writing world, for everyone who doesn't think like a professional writer.

Professional writers can't afford to have writer's block. They discovered ways to analyze the problems and have come up with multiple solutions.

We have three forms of Writer's Block that we discuss in Think like a Pro: One Simple Injunction ~ Writer's Block doesn't Exist.

This episode looks at Writer's Refusal, a stoppage of our work but one that is not only easy to diagnose but also easy to solve. 

Show notes and resources at https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2021/02/writers-refusal-writers-block-doesnt.html

2,400 years. That's how long ago Aristotle lived. How can someone that old have something to tell writers living NOW?

Well, Aristotle rocked the foundation for plot and characters.

Without him, we'd be starting from scratch ... and he still knows more than most writers and writing instructors about the 5 essentials for a character-illuminated plot and the 6 essential character types to have in any story.

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Write on!

What can a man over 2400 years old tell us about story? More than most people think ~ especially since every new is merely a re-thinking about what he worked up over 2,000 years ago.

For a character-driven plot structure and essential characters, Aristotle has the rocks for our foundation to story. This episode looks at the 5 essentials for plot. The next episode looks at the essentials for character.

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Plotter? Pantster? Puzzler? Muse Muffin? Which writing process method is best?

You ask, "Do I have to pick just one?"

That's the RIGHT answer! In this episode, we find out why.

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https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2021/01/plot-it-4-process-methods-for-writers.html 

Thank you for listening.

We finish 6 plotting methods today with the 4-Act Structure, Kishotenketsu, and the Archetypal Story Structure. On the previous episode we discussed Freytag's Pyramid, Shakespeare's 5-Act Structure, and Complex Plot.

Information is taken from M.A. Lee's Think like a Pro. This is the 4th part (D) of chapter 3, "One Guiding Decision: Plot It."

7 Resources and links can be found at thewritefocus.blogspot.com 

Here's the direct link: https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2021/01/plot-it-2nd-3-plotting-methods.html 

 

Of all the plots that writers write (!), their structural methods are only 6 in number. This episode we have the pros and cons of 3 Plot Methods.

In the next episode, we'll cover the other methods.

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Write on.