This is K.M. Wyland. and you're listening to the 241 episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

I just returned from a delightful week of Sunshine Sand Coconut Pudding and and macadamia nuts in Hawaii. I've been busy catching

up on emails and transcribing the second quarter of my outline for my historical superhero

work in progress wayfarer.

When I got back I was excited to be greeted by the Japanese translation of structuring

your novel.

There's supposed to be a Korean translation soon as well, but for

now it's fun getting to add another language I can't read to my bookshop.

The latest post in the video series on my blog is why protagonists must suffer to be interesting.

It talks about why creating interesting protagonists isn't enough to truly engage readers

we have to put our characters through soul-wrenching conflict. To find the

post visit my site at Helping Writers Become Authors.

And now I hope you enjoy this week's podcast entitled Creating Stunning Character Arts

Part 11, the second half of the second act.

The second half of the second act is where you cue the hero music in character arts.

Thanks to that major personal revelation at the midpoint,

the protagonist now gets it.

The puzzle pieces are falling into place. The light bulbs have flashed on. He sees what he has to do to win the conflict. Bad guys, watch out.

The second half of the second act is where your character shifts out of the reactive phase

in which the conflict is being controlled by the antagonist and starts moving into the active phase in which he starts taking

control of the conflict for himself.

He learned the truth at the midpoint and it is allowing him to start implementing

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