This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 298th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

Podcast. If you're writing a story right now and it's hard, then I want you to know you are not alone. Every once in a while, one of my stories

will be a breeze to write. Everything will fall into place like magic and the whole thing will be nothing but fun from start to finish.

Every time that happens I start thinking, woohoo I've turned some invisible corner and from

now on my writing will always be fun and easy.

But I gotta tell you, it never works out that way.

Writing is exhilarating, rewarding, and wonderful, but it's also hard. Every single

day, it's hard. For me, for you, for every self-respecting best-selling author out there.

So when you sit down at your desk this week and golden words don't start pouring off your fingertips. Just remember that's how the process goes

for all of us. I'll keep typing if you'll keep typing. The latest post in the video series on my blog is Why Your Characters Should Never

Tell the Truth until this one important scene. It talks about avoiding on-the-nose dialogue for most of your story

so that you can kill it later on by telling things exactly like they are.

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

And now I hope you enjoy this week's podcast entitled What Every Writers Should Know About

O'Nition POV. Writers don't only know about omniscient P.O.V.

Writers don't only have to decide which character's point of view the story will be told in.

They also have to figure out whether to then share that character's narrative in first

person, third person, second person, or Q ominous rumbling, omniscient P. OV.

The point of view, or P.O.

In which you tell your story's narrative is arguably the single most important decision you can make about your book.

POV will affect every single word choice.

It will decide which scenes are included and which are not. It will influence your reader's perception of your

...