This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 294th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast.

One of the sideline projects I've been working on lately is a transcript of my complete outline for my upcoming historical kind of sort of diesel punk story storming about a biplane pilot in the 1920s.

Ever since outlining your novel came out four years ago I've gotten

scads of requests for examples of my own outlines. I included excerpts in the book

itself but you all wanted to see the whole enchilada.

So I've been working on getting all my handwritten notes transcribed so that I can share the full outline, all 150 pages of it, as a freebie once storming comes

out this winter.

Hopefully it will help you figure out how to create exactly the right outlining style for yourselves.

The latest post in the video series on my blog

is the single most important key

to creating a strong female character.

It tells you the only true definition of a strong female character

and how you can use it to make your own heroines even more compelling and interesting.

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

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled Never Confuse

The Key Event and the First Plot Point in your book again. Maybe you've heard of the key event as part of story structure.

Maybe you haven't.

If you haven't, then you just might belong to the less confused of the two parties.

One of the questions I get most often about the key event is,

what the heck is it?

The first time I heard about the key event

was well reading Sidfield's awesome book screenplay.

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