The Write Focus

By: M.A. Lee
  • Summary

  • 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.
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Episodes
  • 5:46 / Fall into Poetry / Writing Dark and Bright
    Nov 13 2024

    When we live our life in the present, being in the moment, we can develop a love-hate relationship with people and things we encounter daily.

    We don’t “love to hate” these; we love them at some times while at other times we hate them. We may happily encounter and deal with them, then on a day not too far away, we groan and say, “Not today, please, not today.”

    That contradiction, that contrariness, is engrained in our human nature. We aren’t changing our minds. Five days from now, love will re-emerge. When someone reminds us “You said you hated thus-and-so,” we retort “When did I ever?”, conveniently forgotten.

    As writers, we work to keep the predominant mood of a work. We don’t wish to confuse a reader. In longer works, we can gradually shirt the mood, dark to bright, Shorter works are better with one mood.

    We have strong tools to create mood and manipulate our audience with that mood. Our words are influencers upon the world.

    TIMINGS

    00:00 Welcome

    00:40 Introduction / Mood / Lesson 1

    2:53 Tools to Influence Mood / Lessons 2 and 3

    5:35 Frost and Clare

    6:19 Frost’s “My November Guest” / Lesson 4

    9:57 Clare’s “November”

    13:00 Writer as Influencer

    14:00 Last Words / Closing

    Total Run Time = 16:07

    Analysis is All Original Content / No AI Used

    Bio of Frost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost

    Bio of Clare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clare

    “My November Guest” https://poets.org/poem/my-november-guest

    “November” https://pickmeuppoetry.org/november-by-john-clare/

    #johnclare #robertfrost #novemberpoems #mood #connotation #imagery #tone #atmosphere #poetaslegislator

    Link to Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2024/11/fall-into-poetry-writing-dark-and-bright.html

    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 Fall into Poetry. Here’s a link to the first episode: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXi3M_aM-d7K1x02UAlihWKKom_5keJrg

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

    • You can find workbooks and templates at Buy Me a Coffee. Available is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook and templates from the Discovering Characters
    • Available Now: worksheet templates and a video trailer script for Discovering Your Author Brand.

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

    Write to us at winkbooks@aol.com.

    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.)

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    16 mins
  • 5:45 / Fall into Poetry / Writing Public vs. Private
    Nov 6 2024

    “Share your innermost life,” marketing gurus advise writers, “with your readers, your newsletter folks, with everyone. Make it all public Make it pop-ular.”

    That’s a certain way to burn out most of your audience, who just want the knowledge you have or just want to be entertained.

    “Open the window. Let them see into part of your life.” That’s reasonable and rational marketing advice.

    A window doesn’t give access to every room of your home, and it certainly doesn’t give access to what you’ve stored in closets or tucked deep in drawers or hidden in old boxes in the attic.

    We writers have a constant push-pull dynamic of revealing ourselves. Heartfelt emotion is one of the four requirements of song, applicable to all writing. It speaks to us, touches us soul-deep, and leaves us weeping because we have a similar wound.

    In this segment we have two poems by a man who wrote for public consumption but also purged his private anguish in a poem meant only to be published posthumously.

    TIMINGS

    00:00 Welcome

    00:40 Introduction / Public vs. Private

    2:20 Deceit with Reader / Heartfelt Emotion

    4:23 Longfellow / Long Rant

    7:05 HWL Public vs. Private Poems

    8:53 Lessons 1, 2, and 3

    9:50 “The Harvest Moon”

    11:00 Lessons 4 and 5

    12:30 “Mezzo Cammin”

    14:45 Lesson 6

    15:50 Last Words / Closing

    Total Run Time = 17:58

    Analysis is All Original Content / No AI Used

    #henrywadsworthlongfellow #marketingadviceforwriters #harvestmoonpoem #mezzocamminsonnet #sonnet

    LINKS

    Bio on Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow

    “Harvest Moon” https://poets.org/poem/harvest-moon

    “Mezzo Cammin” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50629/mezzo-cammin

    Link to Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2024/11/fall-into-poetry-writing-public-vs.html

    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 Fall into Poetry. Here’s a link to the first episode: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXi3M_aM-d7K1x02UAlihWKKom_5keJrg

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

    • You can find workbooks and templates at Buy Me a Coffee. Available is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook and templates from the Discovering Characters
    • Available Now: worksheet templates and a video trailer script for Discovering Your Author Brand.

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

    Write to us at winkbooks@aol.com.

    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.)

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    18 mins
  • 5:44 / Fall into Poetry / Deceptive Monsters
    Oct 30 2024

    Monsters of all sorts inhabit literature, for they crowd into people’s consciousness whenever we face trials and tribulations.

    The unnatural monsters, goy and terrifying, gorging themselves without mercy or conscience, these are our nightmares, rarely encountered.

    The deceptive monsters, the ones that camouflage who and what they are, still gorging themselves, relishing each victim, these inhabit our everyday lives. We should be wary of them, but we still find ourselves caught in their devastating traps, even after we finally recognize them. Only when we are burned enough or wounded enough do we manage to escape, scarred for all future encounters with people who aren’t monsters.

    These deceptive monsters are alluring, beautiful enticements that we can’t quite let go. And that unwillingness to escape is truly the monstrous behavior.

    Join The Write Focus as we offer 6 Lessons for all Writers as we examine the famous deceptive monster of the wild fairy in two poems by John Keats and e.e.cummings.

    TIMINGS

    • 00:00 Welcome
    • 00:40 Introduction / Deceptive Monsters
    • 02:40 Keats’ “La Belle Dame sans Merci”
    • 4:00 Lessons 1 2, and 3 for All Writers
    • 11:26 Lessons 4 and 5
    • 14:00 e.e.cummings’ Wild Fairy
    • 17:00 Lesson 6
    • 18:45 Last Words / Closing

    Total Run Time = 20:51

    #wildfairy #labelledamesansmerci #johnkeats #eecummings #allingreenwentmyloveriding #dreams #writingtips #artasinspiration #4requirementsofsong #writingtheseasons

    Analysis is All Original Content / No AI Used

    LINKS

    Keats’ bio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats

    “La Belle Dame” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44475/la-belle-dame-sans-merci-a-ballad

    The Artwork https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Belle_Dame_sans_Merci

    e.e.cummings bio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings

    [all in green went my love riding] https://allpoetry.com/all-in-green

    Link to Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2024/10/fall-into-poetry-deceptive-monsters.html

    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 Fall into Poetry. Here’s a link to the first episode: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXi3M_aM-d7K1x02UAlihWKKom_5keJrg

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

    • You can find workbooks and templates at Buy Me a Coffee. Available is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook and templates from the Discovering Characters
    • Available Now: worksheet templates and a video trailer script for Discovering Your Author Brand.

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

    Write to us at winkbooks@aol.com.

    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.)

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    21 mins

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