This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 330 second episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

Podcast.

It's that time of year again.

Time to take my editing outside.

March came in like a lamb here in Nebraska and I'm already

feeling very spoiled by a string of 70 degree days and loss of sun. I always

always, always jump the gun in letting myself believe the warm weather is here to stay and I know I'm way ahead of the game right now but the Canadian geese are back in town and starting to think about nesting so you know it's got to be almost

spring. Of course the problem with taking my editing outside right now is that

the March winds are sure to try their best to blow all my pages away. So we'll have to see who triumphs there.

The latest post on my blog is Plot isn't Story.

In it, I talk about why all by itself Plot isn't story. In it I talk about why all by itself plot isn't story and you can learn how to create

a seamless and meaningful plot out of your character's motivations and relationships.

To find out more, visit my site at helping writers become

authors.com. And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled Five Ways to

Trim Your Book's Word count part one of two. This is not an episode for the

writers who have trouble writing books that aren't long enough. This is not an

episode for writers who say they're going to write a short story and actually end up writing a short story.

Nope, this is an episode for writers who set out to write a nice little 100,000 word novel and find themselves at the finish line with a 200,000 word

beamoth on their hands.

If that sounds painfully familiar, then this episode is for you. So that writer I was describing right there

the one who started out with a goal of writing a 100,000 word novel and ended up

with a 200,000 word manuscript.

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