This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 330th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

Podcast.

It's been an exciting month for me.

Much to my surprise, my Diesel punk historical novel Storming has been doing pretty well on the

award circuit. It won the Lira Grand Prize for a book of the year and has been listed as a finalist

or semi-finalist in three other ongoing competitions,

which is undyingly cool all to itself.

But then I discovered this week that it also won a silver IPE award. I honestly wasn't even sure it would be allowed

in the fantasy genre it was interred in since it's as much historical as it is speculative.

So it's been very exciting to see it doing so well.

Yay!

The latest post on my blog is one major pitfall of writing strong characters. bring your book to life. But it can also lead to the

mistake of leaving out one of your character's most interesting traits.

Visit my site at helping writers become authors.com to find out what it is.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled Do You Have have a writing superpower?

And why you shouldn't?

There's a refrain I often hear in popular writing advice,

and I hate it. Basically it runs like this. All writers are

naturally better at one part of writing over another. It's kind of like having a

very unbalanced writing superpower.

Now on the surface this idea is as true as it gets. We all have our strengths and our weaknesses.

We all have aspects of the craft, we're good at, and others we're still working on.

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