This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 466 episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

So I won't flatter myself that everyone noticed, but you may have noticed that this is the first

podcast for me in over a month. That's because mid-April I came down with what

will go down in the annals as the cold from hell. A sore throat complete with tonsilitis

and a touch of laryngitis kept me from recording any podcasts this past month. I apologize for the absence. I was still blogging for some

of those weeks so if you miss the info you can find the text versions of what

would have been the podcast by visiting my site at

helping writers become authors.com.

The topics include eight quick tips for show don't tell, five ways writers try to fake their way to

good storytelling, and 20 of the most instructive quotes about writing. My thanks to

all of you who did notice and sent kind wishes for recovery my way.

I think they finally worked.

Anyway, now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast, Four Challenges of Writing for a modern audience.

Sometimes I think everything I learned about life I learned from the Andy Griffith show.

For instance, in the episode, Andy discovers America,

when Andy is incredulous about the new school teacher starting them awful young

for history, Aunt B just Sighs and says,

well, maybe they have to, there's more of it these days.

If that idea was true of history back in 1963,

it's even more true of literature in 2019.

One of the coolest things about this ultra-modern era

is the insane number of stories literally at our fingertips. It is staggering. Not only are we able to access

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