This is KAMWyland and you are listening to the 160 second episode of the Word Play Podcast.

I finished polishing up the first draft of the Outlining Your Novel Workshop and send it

off to the folks at Writers Digest University.

While I'm waiting for any editorial directions from them,

I now have the time in my schedule

to get back to my historical fantasy storming.

Before I had to take a break to work on the workshop,

I had just finished up the character sketches.

I've spent this week translating my scribbledy-dews, or trying to at any rate, and transcribing

them into their word dog.

It's been about a month since I wrote these character

sketches so it's been fun to revisit what I wrote. I can tell these

characters a Greece monkey from a lost city in the sky and a barnstorming

pilot among others are going to be a ton of fun to work with.

I can't wait to get started on the actual outline.

Can you define your character in one word?

The latest post in the video series on my blog encourages writers to take advantage of the limitations of fictional characters in a way that will cement them in reader's memories.

To watch it, visit my blog at wordplay-K-M-Y-L-N-D that's W-E-I-L-N-D.

Blogspot. New videos are posted every Wednesday. L-A-N-D-B-S-B-S-B-S-B-S-G-O-N-D-E-N-D-B-S-B-E-N-D-B-S-E-N-T-E-N-D-B-S-B-T-E-N-T-T-E-N-T-T-T-O-T-T-O-T-O-O-O-Ond, muscle to your fiction with unity and contrast.

The painting technique known as Kiaroskuro, which in the words of Lemony Snicket,

is a big big word meaning quite literally light dark.

Makes full use of the contrast between light and dark to pull details into sharper focus.

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