This is K.M. Wylant and you are listening to the 300-rd episode of The Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

My big non-fiction project for this year is putting together a workbook for creating character

this is something many of you have been asking for and it's been my

intention all along to put one out as a companion for the

outlining your novel and structuring your novel workbooks.

I've just started work on that this week, getting my thoughts together and organizing the table of contents.

And so far it's looking like it might be the juiciest of all the workbooks

I've done so far, which makes sense since the subject of character arcs is by far one of the

juiciest I've ever tackled.

I'm taking things a little slower this year,

but I'm hoping to have the workbook published

no later than this fall.

So stay tuned for updates on that.

The latest post on my blog is How to Write a Story Without a Plot and Why You Shouldn't.

The problem with too many books is their authors don't realize what they're writing is a story without a plot.

So learn how you can ace your plot every single time. To read the post visit the site at

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

podcast entitled 13 ways to troubleshoot any scene and then make it fabulous.

So there I was sitting at my desk, notebook in front of me, and absolutely no words staring back at me.

The problem, I knew what needed to happen in this scene, but now that the time had come to write it, it seemed flat as a road-kill

raccoon. It was clearly time to troubleshoot this scene and give it a fixer upper. But where to start? The single

greatest challenge when trying to troubleshoot a scene is that the problem

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