This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 308 episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

This week I'm down in the trenches battling away with what is very possibly my least favorite part of the writing process,

creating an awesome reader grabbing story blurb for Storming's back cover.

It's tough to boil down an entire story into a bare paragraph and even tougher

for someone who's as close to the story as the author is to be able to objectively

pick out the most saleable bits and pieces of the story.

But I keep checking away at it.

My favorite thing to do is start out with a log line, a single sentence description of the story. That immediately helps me boil the story down.

Then the trick is flashing it out into a longer description.

I'm getting closer, but I still haven't quite got something that I or my critique

partners are happy with. The latest post in the video series on my blog is

let Toy Story show you the key to subtle character development.

It shows you how to make character development easier thanks to one fundamental rule. To find the post visit my site at

helping writers become authors.com. And now I hope you enjoy this week's

podcast entitled Eight Paragraph Mistakes You Didn't know you were making.

Words, sentences, and paragraphs.

The bricks and mortar of the writing graph.

They're fundamental.

If we're not using them correctly,

it doesn't matter how wonderful our mastery of characters

and story structure may be,

their make or break territory.

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