This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 338 episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

My highlights this week included learning that my Diesel Punk novel Storming has a finalist for the parable award for

great cover design. Props to my awesome cover design team Demanza for that. I was

dubbed Jedi Master of the Word Player's Group,

for which of course I had to dawn my Yoda ears and lightsaber

for my acceptance speech.

And most importantly, drum-roll please, I put a big fat red finished stamp on the first round edits of my historical superhero work and progress

Wayfair. So yay! So it's off to my first round beta readers while

I focus on putting finishing touches on the Character's Arts course that will be releasing

soon. The latest post on my blog is How to

write scenes your readers will rave about. Great scenes are the building

blocks of great stories.

So learn the most important ingredient in how to write scenes that keep readers glued to the page.

Visit my site at helping writers become authors.com to find out what it is.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled Six Tips to Help You Finish Your Book. Every time I hear about a writer finishing a book, I want to jump up and

down and go into a gospel choir of Halleluias. It's a momentous accomplishment for two reasons. One, finishing

your book is the most important thing any writer will ever accomplish. And two, not many writers do it. Seriously, depending on the source

you examine, as much as 90% of the population wants to write a book. And many of those people will go so far as

to actually begin writing something. But the percentage that actually finishes a

book, miniscule. Why is that? Easy. Writing a book is hard. Even dedicated writers like you and me

find it hard to keep at it when the going gets rough on a story that just isn't cooperating for any number of reasons.

On Facebook, fantasy author Lee Diogenia shared the results of a poll from her writing group.

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