This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 235th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

Podcast. I'm excited to announce that I've just started work on a new project.

Several of you have asked that I create worksheets, workbooks, and even software

as a guide for following the methods I talk about in my two books outlining your novel and

structuring your novel.

I'm currently in the process of gathering my thoughts with the goal of creating workbooks

for each of the books.

I may eventually look into a simple software interface as well, but for now the workbooks are definitely a go.

I have a busy year ahead with the late summer release of the Writers Digest annotated classic Jane Eyre,

but I'm hoping to be able to release both of the workbooks before the year is out as well.

If you have any ideas about how I can make the workbooks as accessible

and useful to you as possible, please don't hesitate to let me know. You can contact me through my site at helping writers become authors.com. The latest post in the video series on my blog is Are You Revealing Your Story's Stakes at the Right Moment?

It talks about the perfect place to reveal your Story Stakes and why it's so important

to drive them home to readers.

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

Creating Stunning Character Arks Part Five, The Characteristic Moment. stunning character acts part five, the characteristic moment.

First impressions do count and your protagonist's characteristic moment is his first chance to impress your readers.

Now that we've got the basic theory of Character Arc out of the way

and figured out how to set up your protagonist's inner conflict via the lie he believes, the thing he wants, and the

thing he needs, and the ghost were ready to officially begin writing our character's story.

The structure of character arc begins with the characteristic moment.

Throughout the rest of this series, we'll be aligning the major moments in the character arc with the major

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