The Write Focus
Successful writing requires The Write Focus. Hosted by M.A. Lee with occasional forays from Remi Black and Edie Roones, we focus on productivity / tools / craft / process for fiction and nonfiction, entertainment and academic writing.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 111
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Special Approaches to Plot / Discovering Your Plot / 4:42
Any presentation of a story’s plot can be straightforward, with scenes / sequels moving in progression from beginning to end, “as events occur”.
Few plots are simply straightforward.
In this episode,…
Essentials / Discovering Your Plot / 4:41
Every plot has a beginning / middle / end. Tensions and suspense drive each of these sections.
Plotting prose? Poetry? That choice doesn’t matter in narrative. Telling a story is the focus, and all s…
Hate and Love for Genre Tropes / Discovering Plot / 4:40
Tropes are those genre category-specific details, characters, and events that readers relish and anticipate: a magic sword, the hard-nosed detective who drinks on the job, and the corpse found and lo…
Genre Expectations / Plot / 4:39
Genre expectations are reader expectations of the plot they will encounter. With all the books on the electronic and physical shelves, a classification system more than Fiction and NonFiction is nece…
Plot, Story, and Story Length / Discovering Plot / 4:38
What do writers want to know about plot? What do writers need to know about plot?
The Write Focus takes a comprehensive view of plot in the series Discovering Your Plot. Genre expectations, major sto…
Branding ~ Key Fundamentals for a Trailer / 4:37
It’s the Key Fundamentals of the Script for Trailer…
A Branding Hallmark: Trailers and Clips / 4:36
We’re talking Branding, and we’re almost through with this series.
Promotion is a key element of the writing business, for indies as well as traditional authors. All writers need to learn the basics …
Branding / Attract Readers to your Brand (& Here’s a Blurb Script) / 4:35
We’re talking Branding, and we’ve covered Books and Series. Now we take a look at how writers brand their own business.
- 1st Question: Pen name or not? Different pen names?
- 2nd Q: What guide helps cre…
Branding / Market Copy Additional ”Between” Episode / 4:34
It’s our Branding “between” addition for Market Copy, featuring Ellis Peters and Elizabeth Peters.
We pick up right where we left off in this stripped-down episode. No powerpoint / mp4 for this previ…
Branding / Clever Market Copy / 4:33
We’re talking Branding. Clever Titles was last episode; this one is Clever Market Copy.
Market Copy means taglines and book descriptions, also known as Blurbs.
We have 3 Rules that govern all Market …
Branding / Clever Titling / 4:32
We’re talking Branding. Before we launch into this week’s episode, let’s have a reminder.
1st ~ We have nanoseconds to capture a reader’s interest. We can capture that reader with three glances. The …