This is K.M. Island and you are listening to the 295th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast. I just got my upcoming historical slash Dieselpunk story storming back from my editor Kathy Lynn. G. checking my email and pow I run across the email I've been waiting for all month the

notes on the edit. Even with a project that I'm as confident in as storming there's

always this blinding flash of panic and then I gird my

loins and open the email and yay she liked it she approves. So we're moving

right along on schedule with Storming's publication.

I've still got some final edits to do and then it's on the publication. Right now

we're looking at an unofficial publication date this December.

The latest post in the video series on my blog is Deadly Story Openers.

How to Fix a B characteristic moment. It points out the

important duties of a good characteristic moment in your book's first chapter

and how you can write one that both hooks readers and launches a great plot.

To find the post, visit my site at helping writers become authors.com.

And now I hope you enjoy this week's podcast entitled Three Ways to

Make Your Writing is Hard. If you're a writer you do not need me to tell you that in the unlikely event that you're not a writer

Then all you have to do to be convinced that writing is hard is to take a quick sampling of writer humor.

It's pretty much all self deprecating, masochistic, laugh so you don't cry.

Stuff. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about.

I talk all the time about how more than half the joy of writing is found in its challenges. If it were easy, it would be boring, right?

Well, yes, and no. Because as much as we relish rising to the challenges writing offers this, I think most of us

just plain love the idea of finding a way to make writing our novels easier.

Most of us also have it figured out that there's no magic pill here.

That's the bad news. The good news, there are at least three things you can do to make

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