This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 38th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

You may have noticed there was no podcast episode last week and that's because it was launch week for my brand new

outlining your novel workbook computer software. It was a crazy week my first

launch for something like this so there were new questions and new nerves

but we had a great week and as always I'm incredibly thankful to all of you who helped make it a success

You are the core group whose enthusiasm makes everything work.

Many of you have also been instrumental in helping programmer Bob Miller and I get the program ready to share with the world.

A special thank you shout out, especially to all the word players who diligently

made a task of the program and helped us iron out the chinks. The program, as you may remember, is based on my outline in your novel workbook

and is designed to walk you through all of the most important steps of brainstorming and creating a solid outline for your story.

If you're interested in learning more, please visit Outlanding your Novel.com and thank you again

for a great launch. The latest post on my blog is Before

you outline how to discover your story's big moments. Learn how every part of your writing can benefit when you use the foundation of your

story's big moments as the jumping-off point for even bigger ideas.

To read the post, visit helping writers become authors.com.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled Are You a Writer or a storyteller? I am a writer. This is one of the most important and

freeing statements any of us ever makes. It's almost a right of passage. The moment you can

look your banker, hairdresser, pastor, aunt, in the eye and tell them, withoutumbling that you are writer here you type

well then congratulations you've crossed an important threshold in claiming your

power as an artist. However, not to complicate your victory or anything, but what

you may really be trying to tell Pastor John and Aunt Lucy is that you're a storyteller? Or maybe you're a

storytelling writer. Or is it a writing storyteller? Or maybe I'm just

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