This is KAMWylant and you are listening to the one hundred sixty ninth episode of the word play podcast.

I've been cruising right along on my outline for storming.

So far, fingers crossed, knock on wood, this has been the easiest outline I've ever put together.

Everything has just fallen into place, which is interesting since it's probably the first story I've written

in which I knew almost nothing about what was going to happen after the initial setup.

It's been fun to turn the characters loose and watch what happens.

I'm only at the midpoint, but I can already see glimmers of how the second half

is going to fall into place. The October issue of my e letter hit in boxes last week. It included the usual

round-up of inspirational quotes, creativity jump starters, and helpful links, as well as the article, how to write original

dialogue and my response to a subscriber's question about sharing historical facts without

info dumping.

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When not to show the action.

The latest post in the video series on my blog uses an example from Jim Butcher's fantasy

Academ's Fury to illustrate how to avoid

unneeded action scenes.

To watch it, visit my blog at wordplay-KM-Yland.

BlogSpot.com. New videos are posted every Wednesday.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast.

Most Common Mistake Series Part 18.

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