This is K.M. Wylant. and you are listening to the 244th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast.

I was tremendously honored to discover that structuring your novel essential keys for for Writing an Outstanding Story, is an Ipee Award winner.

It was awarded a bronze in the Writing Publishing category.

The Ipee Award Honors independently published books in a broad range of subjects and rewards

authors in 78 national, 22 regional, and 10 e-book categories.

This year's contest drew over 5,500 entries.

Structuring your novel is particularly dear to my heart, so I'm extorticled that it was chosen.

The latest post in the video series on my blog is the only sure way to create an emotionally

resonant climax. It points out that high stakes and good intentions

aren't enough to create an amazing climax. Using an example from Captain

America the Winter Soldier, it discusses the single most important

factor in creating a climax that moves readers.

To find the post, visit my site at helping writers become authors.com. And now I hope you enjoy

this week's podcast entitled Creating a Stunning Character Arts Part 14, the Climax. In Character Arts, as in plot, the Climax is the dot on the end of the

exclamation point. The Climax is the reason for the story. This is where the author reveals what the journey the character just endured was really all about and in a positive change arc why that journey has turned out to be worth all the heart aches and trauma.

Most important to our discussion, the climax is where your character proves that he really is a changed person.

Your readers have witnessed his evolution.

They've seen him get shaken up when he was kicked out of his normal world.

They watched his desperate reactions as he tried to regain his footing in the

first half of the second act. They saw his revelation at the midpoint and his

subsequent transition away from the lie and toward the truth.

They saw him act on the truth at the third plot point and pay the price for doing so.

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