The Write Focus: Writer's Block ~ Defeat It! / Gardner's Techniques part A / 7:43

66,000 words per week
140 titles published ~ novels and short stories.
Of that number, 100 of them sold over one million copies EACH.
Translated into dozens of languages
Used pen names because he was so prolific he had to disguise his output from editors
Who is this great Defeater of Writer’s Block? Let’s try one more clue.
271 TV episodes produced with his trademark character Perry Mason.

Have you guessed the writer? Erle Stanley Gardner.

To write 66,000 words each week and to publish 140 titles, Gardner had to have methods and techniques to Defeat Writer’s Block.

In his early days, before he became best-selling, Gardner had to learn story-telling techniques, all the craft skills of character, plot, conflict, and resolution (endings). He discovered practical methods and adapted them, and those served him well over his long career as a professional writer.

Let’s analyze the ones we can adapt to super-charge our own Write Focus.

TIMINGS

00:40 Introduction
03:05 Writing Life Work Habits
04:21 Gardner’s 1^st Technique
07:45 His 2^nd Technique
09:00 His 3^rd Technique (& the most important)
10:30 Two Touchstones for Stories
13:35 These Touchstones Defeat Writer’s Block
15:10 Five Guides for any Story
20:40 Last Words / Closing

Total Run Time = 22:24

LINKS

Video https://youtu.be/7VFzpyP2hd4

Audio https://eden5695.podbean.com/e/writers-block-defeat-it-erle-stanley-gardners-secrets-743/?token=1f22836044df452b9132647553f4f43c

Secrets of the World’s Best-Selling Writer: the Storytelling Techniques of Erle Stanley Gardner. Francis L. and Roberta B. Fugate. Graymalki Media, 1975.

Lester Dent’s Plot Formula (1^st episode) Audio https://eden5695.podbean.com/e/322-short-narratives-part-1-mixed-miscellany-summer-series/?token=787f587776d16329864e1540c7138c9e

Video on YouTube https://youtu.be/jA6xHr44XMw

Lester Dent’s Plot Formula / printable pdf / https://mgherron.com/2015/01/lester-dents-pulp-paper-master-fiction-plot-formula/

Plot 7 (1^st episode) Audio https://eden5695.podbean.com/e/504-plot-7-part-a-discovering-plot/

Archetypal Story Pattern / Greatest Plot Structure in the World (1^st episode) Audio https://eden5695.podbean.com/e/stages-1-2-greatest-plot-structure-discplot-447/?token=1f886de066cbc760395ba4fc6edb7519

Defeating Writer’s Block is easy to say, not so easy to do. We writers have to discover the problem we’re having

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