Writer's Block ~ Defeat It! / Erle Stanley Gardner's Secrets / 7:43 (VIDEO made with ClipChamp)

• 66,000 words per week • 140 titles published ~ novels and short stories. o 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 1st Technique • 07:45 His 2nd Technique • 09:00 His 3rd 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 Website https://thewritefocus.blogspot.com/20... 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 (1st episode) Audio https://eden5695.podbean.com/e/322-sh... Video on YouTube    • 3:22 / Success with Short Narratives, part...   Lester Dent’s Plot Formula / printable pdf / https://mgherron.com/2015/01/lester-d... Plot 7 (1st episode) Audio https://eden5695.podbean.com/e/504-pl... Archetypal Story Pattern / Greatest Plot Structure in the World (1st episode) Audio https://eden5695.podbean.com/e/stages... Defeating Writer’s Block is easy to say, not so easy to do. We writers have to discover the problem we’re having Licensed Music with the content is “Simple Acoustic Guitar” from the creator Apple Hill Studios, available 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 Writer’s Block: Defeat It! originally airing as “Defeat Writer’s Block” a few years back. Here is a link to the playlist:    / @writersinkbooks   Select the most recent episode through the URL after the TIMINGS. The original series is available as an ebook, paperback, and audiobook. Use these links to purchase the original book. Amazon, Kindle, and Audible https://www.amazon.com/Defeat-Writers... Books2Read Worldwide https://books2read.com/u/3112ow AudioBook Now https://www.audiobooksnow.com/audiobo... 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. Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. 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.)