This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 221 episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast. This year November is becoming a bit of a take some time and breathe month after the mad rush

of the earlier part of this year with the release of

structuring your novel, the redesigns of both my websites, my sister's wedding, the

completion of my latest work-in-progress storming, among half a

billion other things, I'm making use of this downtime between novels to keep up with

email and blogging responsibilities, solidify some plans for the next year including the release of the

annotated Jane Eyre and the start of a new work in progress. Really that's enough in

itself to keep me busy if perhaps not as busy as all you nanowers.

When two of your characters want the same thing.

The latest post in the video series on my blog talks about how shared goals can either make allies or enemies of your characters.

To watch it, visit my website at helpinging Writers Become Authors.

New videos are posted every Wednesday.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast

entitled Seven Ways to Decide

which story idea you should write next.

The most important decision a writer will ever make is which story to write.

Sometimes that will be an easy decision. The right story will be staring us in the face, but sometimes the choices can be overwhelming.

If you're like me, then you probably have enough story ideas to last you the rest of your life.

There they stand, all in a sparkling row, each of them clamoring for your attention attention each of them enticing in their possibilities

it's darn tough to pick just one when really we want to write all of them

so how do you choose? After finishing my

diesel-punk work in progress storming earlier this year, I'm currently in that

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