This is KAM Wylant and you are listening to the 47th episode of the Word Play Podcast.

I started it on my cleanup rewrite of Dreamers Come this week.

This round really isn't a rewrite.

I have a few tweaks in mind, but no radical changes.

Really my biggest goal is to catch any typos or inconsistencies

that may have slipped through the cracks during the mayhem of the Alaska, and make sure I don't

have any plot holes staring up at me before I turn it over for another round with my Crip Partners.

I would never claim editing is one of my favorite parts of the process, but there's something

almost soothing about an afternoon spent amidst familiar and loved characters just reading along. So long as I'm not facing

down any major plot revisions, editing is a very peaceful way to spend a few hours.

Your story's clock is ticking. The latest post in the video series on my blog uses the classic

World War II movie The Guns of Navarone to help you understand how to up the ante and keep readers

glued to the pages just by shortening your story's timeline.

You can watch the video on my blog at wordplay-K-M-Y-L-N-D that's W-L-N-D dot blog spot.

New videos are posted every Wednesday.

Meanwhile, enjoy this week's podcast.

Ten ways to write skinny sentences.

If brevity... skinny sentences.

If brevity is the soul of wit, then economy is the energy of prose.

Don't get me wrong, I love complex, twisty, beautiful sentences.

As Alexander Hemon pointed out in a recent interview with the writer magazine, I like to push language

toward poetry to activate the dormant possibilities inherent in it. That's what great literature does in my mind.

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