This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 400 second episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

I just took a 10 day break from all things work and writing to visit my sister and her family.

We had a great time, but as always the and writing to visit my sister and her family.

We had a great time, but as always the hardest thing about traveling is leaving behind my writing,

especially when it's going well as it is right now.

It feels like abandoning a wonderful relationship to go on a trip.

I know lots of writers who are brave enough to take their writing with them when they travel

and commit to working on it, but that just never works for me. My attention is too fragmented,

the writing feels like a burden and the quality of the writing suffers.

And yet, leaving for 10 days and coming back to try to pick up the pieces right where you left off is disorienting as well.

I always like it when a trip coincides with one of my quarterly edits, which it did not this time. But that's always helpful for getting back into the flow

of it. At any rate, there's nothing for it this week, but to just jump back in with both feet.

And now, I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast. Five tips for organizing your subplots. Imagine you walk into a candy shop, but what you discover inside instead of candy is

display after display of subplots, enough to make any writer's mouth water, right?

Writers love the idea of subplots.

They're rich, juicy, complex, and full of opportunities

for taking your story to the next level.

But organizing subplots or even just figuring out what subplots are,

that can sometimes be trickier.

I'm often asked about subplots, but it's one of those subjects like POV that is bigger than just a simple answer.

This is because subplots, when done right, are all but camouflaged within the larger story.

Good subplots integrate with the main plot to the point they're inextricable

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