This is K.M. Wyland.

and you are listening to the 418th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

Seems like I always end up doing a lot of editing in the winter.

Partly this is just because the start of the new year always has me focused on whatever I'm going to be publishing later on

But also you know it's winter and what else are you going to do?

Still it's a very fidget-inducing combination. I've been editing away at my superhero historical

wayfarer, which is scheduled for publication this fall. It's been great since it's freezing

outside with snow and more snow falling.

Nothing better than curling up with words

and a cup of coffee while it's howling outside, right?

But I find myself pretty fidgety this week.

Enough editing already. Let's go outside and do something.

I'm not the only one that feels that way.

But I'm a good little soldier, so I keep editing away

and slowly counting down the days and tell.

Ta-da, it's spring.

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

cohesion and resonance, cohesion and resonance, cohesion in resonance.

So many pieces have to come together to create skillful fiction that it's almost

disingenuous to suggest there are only one or two that make or break the story.

But turns out, it's true, and if my post title wasn't enough to give it away, let me spell it out.

For a story to work, it must possess cohesion and resonance.

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