Writing Challenge Check-in #4 ~ 4:27

We’re counting down the last days of the June Writing Challenge. Here’s the Week 4 check-in followed by my rattling chatter on inoculation against the writing doldrums ~ when we all feel like we’re accomplishing nothing even as we accomplish something great.

Last for today ~ but not the least ~ is an excerpt from Phyllis A. Whitney’s Guide to Fiction Writing. Whitney is the grande dame of American mystery and romantic suspense and a best-selling international writer, with more than 70 novels penned. In 1961, early in her career, she received the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America, capping that with the Grand Master Award from MWA in 1988. In 1990, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Romance Writers of America. She died in 2008 at age of 104. Guide to Fiction Writing presents her perspective on the craft as of 1982, 41 years after her first published novel.

The final days of the June Writing Challenge will be presented in the introductory remarks to the July 5 episode of The Write Focus.

Timings

• 0:39 Intro
• 0:59 Challenge Check-in
• 3:01 Vaccine against Writing Doldrums
• 6:24 Guide to Fiction Writing excerpt
• 10:40 Closing

Total Time = 10:06

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