This is K.M. Island.

And you are listening to the 279th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

Podcast.

Many of you have been asking me to put together a handy-dandy landing page that organizes all the posts on some of my most popular subjects.

Took me a while, but they are now up. If you visit my home page at helping writers

become authors.com and look at the top of the left sidebar,

you'll see links to my series on character arcs,

my series on story structure,

and my series on scene structure.

I hope you'll find these all-in-one mini courses, a helpful resource to keep at your fingertips.

I wish I'd done it years ago. I've already found the accessibility super useful for myself.

The latest post in the video series on my blog

is Are You Leaving This Crucial ingredient out of your book's first chapter?

It shows how you can take a page from Captain America, The Winter

Soldier to hook readers with even a small amount of character development in your book's first chapter.

To find the post, visit my site at helping writers become authors.com.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled Most Common Writing Mistakes Part 38 Irrelevant Endings. common writing mistakes part 38 irrelevant endings.

Is there anything more fun, more bittersweet, or more challenging than book endings.

Arguably nothing matters more for ensuring reader satisfaction

than the ending of a book.

As such, few parts of your story

are going to be more important to get right. But naturally, the room for error rises in direct proportion to the importance of any aspect of your novel.

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