This is K.M. Wyland, and you're listening to the 35th episode of the Word Play

podcast. It's no secret that I feel incredibly blessed. episode of the Word Play Podcast.

It's no secret that I feel incredibly blessed to get to wake up every morning and go to work

doing what I love best, which of course is this crazy writing business.

It hit me afresh this week how incredibly lucky writers are. We carry that magic

of childhood wonder and curiosity and imagination with us all our lives. There's that special

inner part of us that never has to grow up, that never has to stop pretending.

Someone asked me something about people growing out of their imaginations, and I got to tell them, making pretend is my life.

We writers get to live a marvelously broad existence.

We aren't chained to one life.

Our minds are supersonic jets, spaceships, time travel machines that can hurdle us into a hundred different adventures.

It's something I never take for granted.

I wake up every morning and thank God for an imagination unruly enough to survive beyond

childhood.

I've added a new feature to my blog this week. In addition to my

written posts and podcasts, I'm adding a midweek video series. These short, two minutes or less, videos,

will feature the lessons I've learned from my own reading,

in the interest of helping us all learn

from the work of other authors.

We learn from reading the works of others, both the mind-blowing ones and the mind-numbing ones.

As lovers of stories, writers should perforce be avid readers, sucking in all kinds of lessons through sheer osmosis. The first video episode, How to Make Your Pross

Sing, is now available on my blog at wordplay-K-M-Yland, that's W-E-I-L-N-D dot blog spot.com.

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