This is K.M. Wyland. and you are listening to the version of outlining your novel, map your way to success.

I've been working with wonderful voice artist Sonia Field and have been privileged to spend the

last week or so listening to her beautiful narration of the book.

I'm hoping the audiobook will be available within

the next month. So for those of you who prefer to listen instead of read, you'll soon be able

to download outlining your novel.

The sneaky secret life of, as you know Bob, the latest post in the video series on my blog talks

about why the clumsy info dumping technique of, as you

know Bob, may be more prevalent and easier to avoid than you might think. To watch it, visit my website at helping

writers become authors.com. New videos are posted every Wednesday.

And now I hope you enjoy this week's podcast entitled Creating Stunning Character Arks Part 2,

The Lie the Character Belize.

People hate change.

We may sit around and wish our lives were different, but when the rubber really

starts streaking the tarmac, we usually find ourselves wishing we could just hang out

here in our safe and familiar

haunts. Characters are no different. They resist change just as staunchly as any of

us, which is a good thing. Out of resistance comes conflict, out of

conflict, comes plot. This is just the first of many ways in which plot and

character arc are inextricable from one another.

As Stanley Williams so aptly explains it in his book The Moral Premise,

A good way to conceive of movie stories like Die Hard and Love Actually is to think of the

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