The Writing Podcast

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This is the podcast for aspiring writers, an A-to-Z guide to writing, publishing, and promoting your article, book, or any other writing project. Your hosts are Melissa Parks and Dave Goetz, co-founders of Journey Sixty6, an editorial services company and independent publisher for the family business community. Each episode is designed to inspire and instruct writers as they take the long road trip to write and promote their ideas.

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Saturday Feb 25, 2023

Rosanne Bane on How to Overcome Writer’s Block

Saturday Feb 25, 2023

In this extensive interview, Rosanne Bane helps writer's unlock their resistance to write. Author of "Around the Writer's Block," she explains the science behind our procrastination and excuses, and provides practical tips to get back on track.

Great Moments in the Episode

(3.30) The story of a woman in France in 1906 with a brain injury and how her response to pain illustrates conscious and unconscious memory.

(8:08) Rosanne discusses how, traditionally, the brain is thought to be made up of three main areas.

(11:06) Rosanne says that we don't need to know the why of writer's block to overcome it.

(13:41) How writing rituals put you in the right state of mind to write.

(15:40) The different cues that you may use for your writing ritual.

(24:01) "If you want to write well, you have got to be willing to write crap."

(24:58) The difference between process writing and product writing.

(34:04) The six stages of the writing process.

(46:17) The importance of separating writing from publishing.

(51:38) Words of the Episode

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