With the Largest and Strongest and Final
Key to Defeating Writer's Block
A handful of years ago, after
I had started publishing, I stumbled across Phyllis A. Whitney’s Guide to
Fiction Writing. Originally published in 1982, that date was 6 years before
the Mystery Writers of America gave her a Grand Master award for Lifetime
Achievement and 8 years before a similar award came from the Romance Writers of
America.
When she died in 2008,
Whitney had published more than 70 novels, mostly for adults but a few for
young teenagers were also in that total. Whitney has also been described as an
inspiration for the founding of the Sisters in Crime organization. There’s a
whole back story to that; needless to say, MWA and the reviewers and more were
giving scant attention to women writers in the mystery field
Many current writers decry
Whitney as “Old School”. Indeed, the writers that I’ve focused on for this
series on Defeating Writer’s Block—Gardner and Delton, Stewart and Whitney—have
done what current names in the publishing business have not. They have numerous
published works which have endured past their writing lives.
They are all “Old School”.
Paper-based. With writer’s notebooks in binders and journals rather than
software apps.
But their advice is highly
valuable to us, for we want they achieved: long-term writing success that didn’t
succumb to Writer’s Block.
And Whitney gives us the
largest and strongest and final key to Defeating Writer’s Block.
TIMINGS
- 00:00 Welcome
- 00:40 Introduction
- 02:30 Old School Writers vs. New School Ones
- 06:48 Viewing Our Writing Selves
- 11:00 Scheduling
- 15:43 Growing the Story
- 18:34 Sparking New Ideas
- 24:55 Last Words / Closing
Total Run Time = 26:23
SOURCE
Whitney, Phyllis A. Guide
to Fiction Writing. The Writer, Inc. Publishers, 1982. https://www.amazon.com/Guide-fiction-writing-Phyllis-Whitney/dp/087116129X/
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