This is KAMWylant and you're listening to the 101st episode of the word play podcast.

I have to admit I didn't accomplish a whole whopping lot on the writing front this week.

I started in on my 50-page edit of the deepest breath rewrite,

then took some time off to tackle some spring cleaning that's long overdue, like two years overdue.

So after blowing through all the necessary dusting, sweeping, and throwing away of I can't believe I still have this junk, I'm feeling like a Peter

built truck ran me over, and I'm more than ready to return to my comfy editing jar with

a piece of chocolate in one hand and my red pen in the other. In other news, my blog now has a brand new look.

We've still some bugs to work out,

but I'd love your opinions and particularly your suggestions

on how we can tweak it to best serve your needs.

Take a look at Wordplay-K-M-Yland, that's debut E-I-L-A-N-D.

BlogSpot.com.

Introduce important POWs as soon as possible.

The latest post in the video series on my blog

explains why introducing POV characters early in the book

is important to your reader's happiness.

You can watch the video on my blog.

New videos are posted every Wednesday.

Meanwhile, enjoy this week's podcast.

Four tricks for picking the perfect word.

Ironically, since words are our stock and trade, were often pretty casual in our selection

of them. One of Charles Schultz's incisive Snoopy at the typewriter strips from his peanuts cartoon

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