This is K.M. Wyland.

and you are listening to the 234th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

As you may remember, I've been working on a webinar about structuring for Writers Digest. This webinar officially titled

Structuring Your Novel, discovered the proven blueprint for creating stories

that sell, is now available for sign up. The 90 minute presentation will be live

online on March 6th at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard time, although after signing up you can listen or re-listen anytime you want to for

up to a year. I'll be talking structuring, answering live questions, and critiquing participants story structures.

If you're interested in signing up, visit Writers Digest.com slash live-webinars.

Hope to see you there.

I'm currently taking a couple months off from videoing due to some minor health issues,

but you can still read the continuing transcripts for this series on my website.

This week's post is, what if you've chosen the wrong critique partner?

It offers guidelines for knowing when to trust your critique partners and

when to reject their advice.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled Creating Stunning Character Arks Part 4, Your Character's Ghost.

What is your Character's Ghost and how does it affect his character arc?

Once you've figured out the lie your character believes,

as well as the thing he wants and the thing he needs,

the next question you need to ask yourself is

why does the character believe the lie in the first place?

To find the answer, start looking for something ghostly in your character's past.

If there's one solid rule in fiction it's that every

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