This is K.M. Wyland, and you're listening to the 40th episode of the word play podcast.

I rolled my sleeves up this week and slogged into the down and dirty work of officially starting my rewrite of my fantasy dreamers come.

In my book, rewriting is usually about as much fun as an infected hang nail, but wonderful things are happening with this rewrite.

My characters are flying across the pages, the deletions are painless, and I'm having a blast.

It's been one of those weeks where I would happily spend every possible minute on my manuscript,

and every other minute dancing around in the clouds.

Who'd it thunk?

In other news, I was thrilled... clouds. Who'd it thunk?

In other news, I was thrilled to discover a few weeks ago that Writers Digest publisher Jane Friedman

had selected me as one of four writers to recommend on her blog is worth following on Twitter.

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The latest episode, Make Every Scene Mattere's, the Flight of the Falcon, teaches us to make even the most insignificant scenes act as dominoes that affect all the scenes to follow. You can watch the video on my blog and

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Wednesday. Meanwhile enjoy this week's podcast.

15 lessons from the Masters.

When authors whose stories have impacted the world start talking,

we start listening. Take a

listen to the following collection of wisdom on a myriad of writing topics. Be

instructed and be inspired. Beginnings. Write a section or scene that comes before the place where your piece will begin to help you become familiar with your characters plot or setting. Scott Eidelstein.

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