This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 290th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

Spring is always one of the most difficult times of the year to be disciplined as you writer.

The outdoors is a bloom with fresh smells and green buds

everywhere and warm sunshine. It's beckoning outside my window right now. I do make time to be outside, go hiking, sometimes just

fly on the grass and appreciate the sun. But most of the time I have to settle for opening

my window and staying at my desk.

One thing I did do this year is by a rolling laptop tray,

which essentially gives me a desk anywhere in the house.

So I can take my editing right over to that open window and still

keep my comfy desk chair. The latest post in the video series on my blog is,

Afraid your book is boring,

your character may not be doing this one important thing.

It shows one of the top reasons it's possible your book is boring your readers and offers the easy and fun solution

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

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

My Writing Process Part 1 of 2, how I use Scrivener to outline my novels. My writing process is a continually evolving thing. Not only

does every new story require a slightly different approach and not only am I constantly learning and

refining but sometimes a new tool comes along and completely revolutionizes the whole system.

That's what the writing software Scrivener has done for my writing process this past year.

For years, I've been extremely happy with the free organization program,

WY-writer. One of my mottos has always been, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Besides, I kept hearing about Scrivener's steep learning curve.

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