The Write Focus

M.A. Lee

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.

  1. -6 ч

    Cover Considerations / Quick Tips for Writers 12 / 7:27

    Consider your Cover is Quick Tip #12. One of the greatest expenses that an indie writer will have is the cost of a professional cover. Yes, yes, people say that the editorial cost is the highest one. Development editors and content editors and line editors are expensive. Let me argue with that. The first attractor for a book is the cover design. To capture and charm readers, invest in a great cover design. How do we ensure the best cover design? Follow along for the tips.   TIMINGS 00:41 Introduction 01:15 Cover Considerations 04:56 Closing Total Run Time = 5:57   LINK Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2026/07/cover-considerations-quick-tips-for.html   Licensed Music with the Quick Tips content is “Simple Acoustic Guitar” from the creator applehillstudios on Audio Jungle. The music is licensed for podcast and YouTube. Music for the opening and closing segments are in the narration, also licensed from Audio Jungle for the purpose of podcast and YouTube. All short videos with the video are from Pexels.com, a site that offers free short videos, some with sound (turned off for this posting).   Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. As a Blast from the Past, our current focus is a series entitled Quick Tips for Writers. Here is a link to the playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXi3M_aM-d7JoFvT3aJEZPpneLjOH1Ur_&si=j8n2yOeaJz05H4bY Select the most recent episode through the URL after the TIMINGS. 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 Also available: 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.) Content copyright is 2020 to 2026, Writers Ink Books.

    6 мин.

  2. 24 июн.

    Juggle Projects / Quick Tips for Writers / 7:26

    Writing constantly, writing fast ~ these can outpace our creativity, leaving us drained. The answer is to Juggle Projects. I cannot simultaneously write two fiction projects; the projects we juggle have to be different. This episode talks about that HOW. TIMINGS 00:41 Introduction 01:15 Juggle Projects 04:50 Closing Total Run Time = 5:49   LINK Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2026/06/juggle-projects-quick-tips-for-writers.html   Licensed Music with the Quick Tips content is “Simple Acoustic Guitar” from the creator applehillstudios on Audio Jungle. The music is licensed for podcast and YouTube. Music for the opening and closing segments are in the narration, also licensed from Audio Jungle for the purpose of podcast and YouTube. All short videos with the video are from Pexels.com, a site that offers free short videos, some with sound (turned off for this posting).

    6 мин.

  3. 17 июн.

    Think Cocoons / Quick Tips for Writers 10 / 7:25

    “Cocoons” is the Quick Tip for Writing in this episode. When the words do not come as soon as we are ready to write, what can we do? We have to think like inchworms, the ones that eventually become beautiful butterflies. TIMINGS 00:40 Introduction 01:15 Think Cocoons 03:43 Closing Total Run Time = 4:42   LINK Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2026/06/think-cocoons-quick-tips-for-writers-10.html   Licensed Music with the Quick Tips content is “Simple Acoustic Guitar” from the creator applehillstudios on Audio Jungle. The music is licensed for podcast and YouTube. Music for the opening and closing segments are in the narration, also licensed from Audio Jungle for the purpose of podcast and YouTube. All short videos with the video are from Pexels.com, a site that offers free short videos, some with sound (turned off for this posting).   Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. As a Blast from the Past, our current focus is a series entitled Quick Tips for Writers. Here is a link to the playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXi3M_aM-d7JoFvT3aJEZPpneLjOH1Ur_&si=j8n2yOeaJz05H4bY Select the most recent episode through the URL after the TIMINGS. 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 Also available: 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.)

    5 мин.

  4. 10 июн.

    Loss Leaders / Quick Tips for Writers 9 / 7:24

    Long before a writer pens the last word in a story and launches into the Proof-Plus, that writer is considering promotions. Promotions, marketing, that’s the same thing. So much of marketing depends on spare cash and good fortune in eyes discovering it. The chief marketing tool, however, is something the writer can totally control. Let’s look at the Loss Leader, also known as the Reader Magnet. TIMINGS 00:41 Introduction 01:15 Reader Magnets 06:18 Closing Total Run Time = 3:45   LINK Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2026/06/reader-magnets-quick-tips-for-writers-9.html   Licensed Music with the Quick Tips content is “Simple Acoustic Guitar” from the creator applehillstudios on Audio Jungle. The music is licensed for podcast and YouTube. Music for the opening and closing segments are in the narration, also licensed from Audio Jungle for the purpose of podcast and YouTube. All short videos with the video are from Pexels.com, a site that offers free short videos, some with sound (turned off for this posting).   Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. As a Blast from the Past, our current focus is a series entitled Quick Tips for Writers. Here is a link to the playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXi3M_aM-d7JoFvT3aJEZPpneLjOH1Ur_&si=j8n2yOeaJz05H4bY Select the most recent episode through the URL after the TIMINGS. 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 Also available: 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.)

    4 мин.

  5. 3 июн.

    2 Key Elements for Every Story / Quick Tips for Writers 8 / 7:23

    Every successful story, short or long, has two key elements. These two keys recur throughout the story. One takes a new form at every instance, teasing the reader into reading more. The other also teases the reader, but this time the key remains the same, merely doubling and re-doubling, increasing and intensifying. What are these key elements? You’ll have to listen to discover that answer. ;) TIMINGS 00:41 Introduction 01:15 Two Key Elements for Successful Stories 04:16 Closing Total Run Time = 5:17   LINK Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2026/06/2-keys-to-successful-stories-quick-tips.html   Licensed Music with the Quick Tips content is “Simple Acoustic Guitar” from the creator applehillstudios on Audio Jungle. The music is licensed for podcast and YouTube. Music for the opening and closing segments are in the narration, also licensed from Audio Jungle for the purpose of podcast and YouTube. All short videos with the video are from Pexels.com, a site that offers free short videos, some with sound (turned off for this posting).

    5 мин.

  6. 27 мая

    Antagonists, part 2 / Quick Tips for Writers 7 / 7:22

    In our second episode on antagonists, we discuss the additional evil actors that drive a plot, as much a part as our main character, our Protagonists. We offer three Quick Tips, first about our major antagonist and then two more about minor antagonists. A key element whips by pretty rapidly, in that each minor antagonist teaches the protagonist a skill or a way to defeat the major antagonist. We don’t want you to miss that. ;) Quick Tips for Writers continues next week with 2 Requirements for Every Story. TIMINGS 00:41 Introduction 01:15 Antagonists, part 2 03:31 Closing Total Run Time = 4:31 LINK Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2026/03/antagonists-part-2-quick-tips-for.html Licensed Music with the Quick Tips content is “Simple Acoustic Guitar” from the creator applehillstudios on Audio Jungle. The music is licensed for podcast and YouTube. Music for the opening and closing segments are in the narration, also licensed from Audio Jungle for the purpose of podcast and YouTube. All short videos with the video are from Pexels.com, a site that offers free short videos, some with sound (turned off for this posting). Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. As a Blast from the Past, our current focus is a series entitled Quick Tips for Writers. Here is a link to the playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXi3M_aM-d7JoFvT3aJEZPpneLjOH1Ur_&si=j8n2yOeaJz05H4bY Select the most recent episode through the URL after the TIMINGS. 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 series. • Also available: 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.)

    5 мин.

  7. 24 мая

    Pentecost / MORE: Easter / 7:26

    Pentecost concludes the Easter Season. Fifty days after the Resurrection, ten days after Ascension, it completes the jubilation that starts before sunrise on Easter Day with the Son’s rise. “He is risen” does not complete everything. Pentecost is the completion. Let’s ground ourselves in the reasons.   TIMINGS 00:40 Introduction 00:50 Pentecost 08:55 Closing Total Run Time = 9:54   LINK Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2026/05/pentecost-concludes-easter-season.html   Licensed Music with the Easter segment is entitled “Soft Beautiful Hope Piano” from the creator Nehliudoff on Audio Jungle while that with the Writing segment, with the same title, is from the creator Little Victory, also on Audio Jungle. Music for the opening and closing segments are in the narration. All short videos with the video are from Pexels.com, a site that offers free short videos, some with sound.

    10 мин.

  8. 20 мая

    Learn to Twist ~ Antagonists / Quick Tips for Writers 6 / 7:21

    In the Quick Tips series, episodes 6 and 7 are linked, for both are about antagonists, twisty and surprising antagonists. A truth of conflict is that a weak antagonist creates a weak Protagonist. Since we writers want our main characters to be strong, then the conflict-creator of the story needs to be equally strong. The first way to do this is to twist our readers’ expectations of the antagonist. TIMINGS 00:40 Introduction 0:1:12 Learn to Twist / Antagonists 06:18 Closing Total Run Time = 3:36   LINK Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/2026/03/quick-tip-6-learn-to-twist-721.html   Licensed Music with the Quick Tips content is “Simple Acoustic Guitar” from the creator applehillstudios on Audio Jungle. The music is licensed for podcast and YouTube. Music for the opening and closing segments are in the narration, also licensed from Audio Jungle for the purpose of podcast and YouTube. All short videos with the video are from Pexels.com, a site that offers free short videos, some with sound (turned off for this posting).   Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. As a Blast from the Past, our current focus is a series entitled Quick Tips for Writers. Here is a link to the playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXi3M_aM-d7JoFvT3aJEZPpneLjOH1Ur_&si=j8n2yOeaJz05H4bY Select the most recent episode through the URL after the TIMINGS. 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 Also available: 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.)

    6 мин.
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    M.A. Lee
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    2020 - 2026
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