This is K.M. Wyland and you're listening to the 300 third episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

The writing life full of surprises.

Sometimes stories end up taking you in places you never imagined they would. For me I got zoomed around for a huge loop

last night at a campfire when I suddenly got hit by a development I never saw coming, namely a sequel idea for my

portal fantasy dreamlander, as well as ideas for turning my current standalone work in progress awayfare about the historical

superhero into a trilogy. For someone who's never written the sequel in her life, this came

out of nowhere. But I'm super excited about the possibilities,

especially the idea of getting to revisit Dreamlander.

I've been toying with the idea for a while,

but never seriously because I tied off the loose ends in the first one,

so tightly that I didn't think I'd be able to logically make a second work.

But now I've got ideas pouring out of me. Fun stuff. The latest post in the video

series on my blog is Did You Know Tell versus Show matters in foreshadowing too?

It offers two examples of how Tell versus Show in foreshadowing can weaken the overall

effect on your story and what you can do instead. To find that post visit my site at

helping writers become authors.com. And now I hope you enjoy this week's

podcast entitled four methods to invigorate your prose with surprising sentences.

Good storytelling is all about the big pieces, structure, character, theme.

But good writing, that's much more intricate, much more intimate.

Good writing is about creating purposeful and interesting prose.

Creating prose of that caliber starts with the mechanics of grammar and spelling,

but any middle schooler is supposed to be able to do that.

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