The Write Focus: July 2022

PAMELA EBEL ~ Mainstream to Weird & Wacky to True Crime with Paranormal

Interview with Pamela Ebel ~ from mainstream mysteries to weird and wacky and on to true crime with paranormal

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From mainstream mysteries to weird and wacky and on to true crime with paranormal, Pamela Ebel doesn’t hesitate.

Timings

00:52 Opening for Pamela Ebel, into her fifth career: writing
2:00 Avoiding the word genre
4:18 Flash Fiction
6:16 Offering fiction for free on her website
7:40 Finding Turners ~ a series with retired circus animals
9:20 Writing a short story a week
10:45 Submission process advice
16:00 Finding markets
18:40 Best Help for Writing
20:45 How to find her work
21:50 Writing vs. social media; her story “Dead Men don’t Text” is upcoming on her Facebook page (link below)
23:30 Investing in your own writing
25:00 Novel vs. Short Fiction
27:25 When disasters affect the writing
29:35 Finding a short story in a novel
31:11 Avoiding boredom with the writing
33:30 Best Writing Tool
37:13 Never wait for validation from others
39:20 Closing

EC Ambrose (aka Elaine Isaak) ~ Medieval Mysteries and Archaeological Thrillers

EC Ambrose > Elaine Isaak ~ Medieval Mysteries and Archaeological Thrillers

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Genghis Khan. Medieval surgeries. The Bone Guard.

These intriguing story lines are the invention of Elaine Isaak, writing as E.C. Ambrose. In this excellent interview, Elaine shares her writing processes and several surprising methods in this episode of The Write Focus.

Timings

1:30 Opening
2:15 Focus on The Mongol’s Coffin
3:20 The allure of the High Middle Ages
4:10 Cross-cultural exchange and innovation
6:46 Medieval surgery, her first series, and the vision of a series protagonist Elisha Barber: “My god, I’ve killed them all.”
8:50 Publication Journey
9:34 Relinquishing control, traditional publishing, indie publishing
11:40 writing contest games
12:40 Elaine’s writing process
14:40 Outlining
15:55 Story Spine
16:34 Draft is done. What next?
19:12 Challenge of writing different series
24:41 Best writing tool
26:10 Research while writing
28:37 Maintaining Productivity
30:00 Family matters.
32:00 Best writing craft to practice
34:35 Benefit of local writing chapters.

LINKS

E.C. Ambrose | Penguin Random House / https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/232247/ec-ambrose

Amazon / https://www.amazon.com/E.C.-Ambrose/e/B00BIJJTJK

www.ECAmbrose.com

ELLE ANDREWS PATT! ~ Mysteries and Speculative Fiction

Interview w/ Elle Andrews Patt ~ Mysteries & Speculative Fiction

Elle Andrews Patt offers her perspective on writing, from the start of her publishing journey to the importance of marketing, all in this episode of The Write Focus.

The AUDIO is in Two-Parts, airing July 6 and 13.

The VIDEO airs in its entirety on July 13.

Links to the episodes are below.

Timings

1:11 Opening
2:02 Elle Andrews Patt’s published writings
4:00 Her writing / publishing journey
5:00 Practice using Fan Fiction
7:50 Short Story vs. Novel
11:00 Stand-alones vs. Series (writing a series, cliffhangers: the ugly, the bad, and the good
15:35 Interconnected characters and spin-offs
19:14 Plotter vs. Pantster
20:06 When books do not fit a marketing niche and the hybrid writer life
22:50 Writing with Sensitivity and Awareness
24:00 Plotting and the synopsis
28:18 ClickMagick for tracking links; importance for marketing and ROI (return on investment)
31:45 Productivity and deadlines
34:30 Changing process / practice adapts the process
36:10 Elle’s Best Advice (multi-part)