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

I'm not one of those writers who is so admirably dedicated that they take their writing with them on vacation.

I've tried it in the past, but about the only time I'm not too distracted to write is in the

car and even assuming I have a driver I usually get car sick

after about 20 minutes of that so I pretty much just given up on it. So having

just returned from me a week away from my writing on it can always be a little dicey jumping back into a story. I haven't been actively

thinking about it for a good chunk of the time. Fortunately, the segue back into full-blown

writing mode went super smooth this time. I credit that mostly to the fact that the writing

was going really well before I left and I was just

getting to a big and fun scene. Great, when it works out that way.

The latest post in the video series on my blog is

Discover the Simple Trick for Creating Vivid Story Descriptions.

It offers a super easy rule of thumb for always finding the best and most evocative details for your

story descriptions. To find the post, visit my site at helping writers become authors.com. And now I hope you enjoyed this week's

podcast entitled Just Because Your Protagivist is Reactive doesn't mean

he's passive. Discover the difference. One of the stickiest questions

any writer is likely to face is, what's the difference between a reactive protagonist and a passive protagonist?

If you've been studying story structure with me, then you know I talk a lot about how your

protagonist needs to be reactive in the first half of the book.

But this idea causes a lot of writers to scratch their heads because isn't it true that you're also told like all the

time that your protagonist should never be passive? Isn't reactive kind of like passive and if so doesn't that mean that this

passive slash reactive protagonist is likely to sink the first half of your book good story structure or

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