This is K.M. Wyland.

and you are listening to the 467th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

Last week I finally got back to the podcast after a prolonged cold, and this week I finally

got back to my writing.

I wrote intermittently throughout the last six weeks,

but it feels good to finally be back to it in earnest.

Ever since moving last year, I've had trouble sorting a new daily schedule that gave my writing prime time attention.

I'm still working on that.

One thing I know is that I do best when I'm able to take my own advice and write every day.

If I miss more than two days a week,

I always start feeling the lack of momentum,

however hard I work on the other days.

I have several extracurricular activities going on this week, but then I hope to finally

get this problem figured out. In the meantime, I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast

How to Write interesting scenes. Here's a

secret about storytelling that many writers overlook. An interesting plot isn't

what makes an interesting story. Interesting characters aren't what make an interesting story either.

In reality, a story is only as interesting as it seems.

That sounds almost too obvious to think about.

Honestly, I hadn't thought about to specifically myself until reading Matt Bird's insightful

secrets of story in which he points out in his excellent common sense chapter on

scenes at any given point in your story the audience will be far more interested in

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