6:36 / Summer Writing Challenge / Week 15 & Interview with Reiner Prochaska

We have reached the last episode associated with the Summer Writing Challenge.

Our Quick Tip covers the 3 Sets of 7 that we writers need for every story start—because you’re moving on to the next writing, right?

Reiner Prochaska offers a fascinating view of writing challenges in discussing his two novels and scripts for stage.

• Reiner Prochaska is a playwright, a novelist, an actor, a director, a filmmaker, and a university lecturer. His plays have been produced at Maryland Ensemble Theatre and published nationally and internationally.


• His new novel, Bergthora’s Saga: A Heathen Revenge in a Christian Iceland—a historical fantasy set in Iceland in the late tenth and early eleventh century, as well as in mid-fourteenth century Greenland—was published by Europe Books in London in November 2024.


• His previous novel, Captives, which tells the story of German soldiers interned at the historical POW camp in Frederick, Maryland, between 1944 and 1946, was published by The Permanent Press in 2019.


• He is the Producer and a Co-Director of the Catoctin Furnace Living History Festival, to which he contributes in creative and administrative capacities. A graduate of Towson University, Reiner teaches writing at his alma mater. He lives in Frederick, Maryland.

For our Check-In, I’m talking the next series.

We’re wrapping up everything, so let’s begin.

TIMINGS

• 00:40 Welcome & Quick Tip # 15


• 09:22 Interview with Reiner Prochaska


• 43:33 Next with The Write Focus (2 series)


• 44:08 Closing

Total Run Time = 45:08

LINKS

His Site https://reinerprochaska.com/

Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2025/09/636-summer-writing-challenge-week-15.html  

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