This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 200 third episode of the word play podcast.

By now you've probably gathered that I am having way too much fun with my work and progress

storming.

I feel like I have grown so much as an author and a person

while writing the previous two books and storming is now reaping the benefits.

To some extent I think the ease and the fun of this project is due to the project itself.

It's a fun, light-hearted romp without my usual huge complicated twisty backstory. It features one main

P. OV and one very small additional P. So it's just an easier story to write, but it's also

the first story that has benefited from its very inception

from my own growth into understanding plot and character art structure, scene structure,

and a perfected outlining approach. I'll tell you what, it makes all the difference.

Is your story suffering from the montage effect. The latest post in the video series on my blog

warns against summarizing your story's best scenes. To watch it, visit my website at

W.W. dot helping writers become authors

dot com. New videos are posted every Wednesday.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast. Are you overthinking your first draft?

First drafts are our agony and our ecstasy. This is where our glistening ideas

spill onto the page. This is where we get to play around with our ideas, see our

characters grow, and our themes mature.

First drafts are fun, they're our creative playground.

But they're also tough.

Our words on paper rarely measure up to the sparkling perfection of the ideas in our heads.

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