This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 256th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

Now that most of the excitement around the launch of the annotated Janier is over,

and I've got my latest edits of my diesel-punk historical storming out of the way.

I'm back to working on the workbooks for outlining your novel and structuring your novel. They're currently being

typeset and I'm working on figuring out the best way to convert them into digital

versions. I wasn't quite sure how the workbooks would work out as e-books, but I'm actually really excited with

how they're turning out. So stay tuned for more on that. The latest post in the video series on

my blog is Characters or Cypiphers which are you casting in your

story. It talks about why your characters may be as one dimensional as those in the

Monument's men and offers an easy tip for adding depth.

To find the post, visit my site at helping writers become authors.com.

And now I hope you enjoy this week's podcast entitled Can a

Character's Arc be a Subplot? You've written an amazing story, your premise is high concept, your structure is brilliant,

the whole thing is just killer, but the main character's arc seems to be well lacking. It's there all right. It just doesn't get much screen

time. It's more of a subplot. So is that even possible? Is it workable or is it a sign that your story is

blabby shallow and sure to bore readers.

I've been filtering through some of the questions you all have been raising in response to

my recent series on positive, negative, and flat characteristics. One of the frequent questions I am encountering is

whether or not a character's arc can be a subplot. The short and sweet answer is

yes yes it can not every story especially action oriented

stories will feature huge character arcs that get all kinds of screen time and

prominently showcase the lie, the truth, and the character's

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