Laser-Eyed Writing / Enter the Writing Business

 Here in PrepToBer and on into the Fall Writing Challenge, The Write Focus guides us toward the ultimate goal: the Writing Life!

Edie Roones gives great focus with Enter the Writing Business. We’re bookcasting all the way to

December.

In this episode, we looked at “Laser-Eyed Writing”, what we need to create stories continuously.

Timing / Content

0:36 Laser-Eyed Writing ~ money-wise / relationship-wise / job -wise / TIME is free

10:00 Invasion of the Story-Killers ~ different brains for writing / privacy and writing / needs of the writing space

16:22 Fertile Spaces for Story Seeds ~ devoted story space / room for writing / the space reflects you

22:17 Closing

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Resources

https://www.amazon.com/Enter-Writing-Business-Inspiration-Writers-ebook/dp/B0848CK3C2

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Our current focus is Enter the Writing Business. We’re bookcasting!

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3:43 / Dream It / Enter the Writing Business

 Here in PrepToBer and on into the Fall Writing Challenge, The Write Focus guides us toward the ultimate goal: the Writing Life!

Edie Roones gives great focus with Enter the Writing Business. We peruse these concepts:

• ·       Dream into a Belief and then a Reality 
  
  
  
• ·       A Laser-Eyed Focus on Writing
• ·       Planner vs. Plotter
• ·       Creativity
• ·       Soul-Sucking Jobs
• ·       Practicalities
• ·       Eyes on the Writing Biz
• ·       SMART Biz Planning

We’re bookcasting for these last two weeks of October, all through November, and into December.

This episode focuses on the Writing Dream, Belief in your own Writing Self, and Turning the Dream into a Reality.

Timings

00:35 Introduction to Enter the Writing Business

3:41 / 1 :: Writers Dream of Writing

9:45 / 2 :: Know Your Lifelong Dream

12:42 / 3 :: Pursuit of the Dream

17:38 / 5 :: Thunder, Lightning, Changes, Oh my!

25:20 / Closing

Resource Enter the Writing Business

https://www.amazon.com/Enter-Writing-Business-Inspiration-Writers-ebook/dp/B0848CK3C2

Listen to the episode on Podbean https://eden5695.podbean.com/e/343-dream-it-enter-the-writing-business/?token=48bb45236d86f3fed260c4addf6472eb

Watch a powerpoint of the episode on YouTube https://youtu.be/k6jEFOBy08U

Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.

Our current focus is Enter the Writing Business.

For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com  .

Write to us at winkbooks@aol.com.

Support the podcast with a cup of coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/winkbooksr

If you find value in this podcast, please share with your writing friends or write a review. (We’re small beans. We don’t have the advertising budget of the big peeps. You can make a difference.)

Listen on your favorite podcast site: from Apple to YouTube, Spotify and Podbean (my favs), Google Play, Amazon Music and Audible, Samsung and Player FM, Deezer and Podcaster, the rivals iHeart and Tune-in, and too many to list.

Here are the 4 easiest:

My favorite podcast is Podbean. https://eden5695.podbean.com/

YouTube direct link to the Mixed Miscellany playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na5LXb-83iM&list=PLXi3M_aM-d7ISCaEcoK4JV5wSUkGCmx_Z

Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-write-focus/id1546738740%20

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Lynn Cahoon ~ Writer Interrupted then Resumed!

 Writer, Interrupted Yet Resumed!

Lynn Cahoon ventured away from writing because of life disruptions only to return years later. Starting

with essays then short stories, she eventually wrote her first novels … and woke up to her name on the NY Times best-seller list for ebooks. Currently juggling five series along with a major move, Lynn shares her writing journey and guidance.

Her newest release, only a few weeks ago, is A Vacation to Die For, #14 in the Tourist Trap series, available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple, and Kobo.

 

TIMINGS

• 00:30 Welcome
• 00:44 Lynn’s journey, from essays to short stories to novels and to best-seller status
• 4:10 the current five series: Tourist Trap series has 15 books / Cat Latimer series / Farm to Fork series / Kitchen Witch series / Survivors Book Club series
• 6:56 series set in California, Arizona, Colorado, and Idaho
• 8:00 Life rolls disrupt writing.
• 9:43 Developing new series~ driving opens up creativity, falling in love with locales
• 15:00 More personal circumstances that inform writing in unexpected aways
• 16:45 Lynn’s writing process for ideas ~ “Writers are magpies.”
• 18:00 Using structure to set events, the entry of the dead body, developing relationships before the murder
• 21:40 Niches help.
• 26:00 Maintaining productivity ~ using word counts
• 28:00 Bob Mayer: writer and productivity adviser, “The Warrior Writer”
• 30:00 Overcoming writing trials, hitting the genre markers
• 32:00 Genre-hopping and its problems, finding a niche
• 35:00 Best tool for writing
• 38:08 Best advice for the New Writers
• 39:30 Closing

LINKS

Her website -http://lynncahoon.com/

Amazon author page -http://www.amazon.com/Lynn-Cahoon/e/B0082PWOAO/

Sign up for her newsletter for exclusive giveaway access as well as all things #LynnCahoon www.lynncahoon.com

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Direct Link to the Video https://youtu.be/A9opxUlEmZg

Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.

Our current focus is A Mixed Miscellany: Interviews with Writers / Fiction / Poetry / Nonfiction.

For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com  .

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If you find value in this podcast, please share with your writing friends or write a review. (We’re small beans. We don’t have the advertising budget of the big peeps. You can make a difference.)

Listen on your favorite podcast site: from Apple to YouTube, Spotify and Podbean (my favs), Google Play, Amazon Music and Audible, Samsung and Player FM, Deezer and Podcaster, the rivals iHeart and Tune-in, and too many to list.

Here are the 4 easiest:

My favorite podcast is Podbean. https://eden5695.podbean.com/

YouTube direct link to the Mixed Miscellany playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na5LXb-83iM&list=PLXi3M_aM-d7ISCaEcoK4JV5wSUkGCmx_Z

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Heather Weidner ~ Juggling Jobs and Cozy Mysteries

Through the years, Heather Weidner has been a cop’s kid, technical writer, editor, college professor,
software tester, and IT manager. She writes the Delanie Fitzgerald Mysteries, The Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries, and The Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries.

Her short stories appear in the Virginia is for Mysteries series, 50 Shades of Cabernet, Deadly Southern Charm, and Murder by the Glass. She is a member of Sisters in Crime – Central Virginia, Sisters in Crime – Chessie, Guppies, International Thriller Writers, and James River Writers.

Originally from Virginia Beach, Heather has been a mystery fan since Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew. She lives in Central Virginia with her husband and a pair of Jack Russell terriers. She earned her BA in English from Virginia Wesleyan University and her MA in American literature from the University of Richmond.

Timings

• 0:15 Opening ~ Heather Weidner’s series
• 0:48 Her publishing journey
• 3:40 1^st writing ventures
• 5:38 Her writing process, daily word counts
• 7:20 Newbie mistakes and overcoming them
• 8:44 From idea to end
• 10:25 the Team around the protagonist
• 14:25 Moving to the Beta readers; finding the beginning (and the ending)
• 16:00 Revision; adding humor; off to the editor
• 19:00 Daily writing session (no blank page)
• 21:35 Discovering a niche (glamping) in the cozy mystery genre
• 23:45 Motivation and commitment
• 28:20 Marketing
• 29:12 Best writing tool
• 30:19 Re-charging creativity
• 32:25 Her books; advice to new writers
• 34:13 Closing

 Links

Website and Blog: http://www.heatherweidner.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/HeatherWeidner1

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HeatherWeidnerAuthor

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heather_mystery_writer/

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8121854.Heather_Weidner

Amazon Authors: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00HOYR0MQ

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/HeatherBWeidner/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-weidner-0064b233?trk=hp-identity-name

BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/heather-weidner-d6430278-c5c9-4b10-b911-340828fc7003

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@heather_weidner_author

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyBjyB0zz-M1DaM-rU1bXGA?view_as=subscriber

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Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.

Our current focus is A Mixed Miscellany: Interviews with Writers / Fiction / Poetry / Nonfiction.

For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com  .

Write to us at winkbooks@aol.com.

Support the podcast with a cup of coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/winkbooksr

If you find value in this podcast, please share with your writing friends or write a review. (We’re small beans. We don’t have the advertising budget of the big peeps. You can make a difference.)