This is K.M. Wyland.

and you are listening to the 300 first episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast.

Life is always surprisingly calm when I'm in the midst of long-term projects, as I am right now with

writing Wayfair's first draft and

editing Storming. It's the short-term projects with the looming deadlines

that tend to make glyphosate and those are the kinds of projects that are so common in my life that it's these calm periods of steady work on just one or more projects that always takes me a little bit by surprise.

I have to remember how to slow it. that always takes me a little bit by surprise.

I have to remember how to slow down and just enjoy the relative peacefulness

versus the fun hecticness of rushing from one project to the next.

I'm projecting that I should be done with Storming's edits by September

and Wayfair's first draft by the end of the year.

Then I expect it'll be fun to be back to Hectic for a little while.

The latest post in the video series on my blog is the key to writing good action scenes.

Hint it's not just the action.

It shows you how you can mimic Jurassic Park

by streamlining your narrative and keeping your action scenes tight.

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

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled Learn How to Write a Likeable Protagivist at the start of

his character arc. Do you know what I struggle with more than anything when it comes to

character arcs? creating a likable

protagonist right from the get-go. And I'm not alone in their desire to create

deep expansive changes within their characters, many riders get hung up at the beginning

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