This is K.M. Loyland and you are listening to the 471 episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

One of my favorite things about Summer is that it's often nice enough to take my writing outside.

Not so much in the afternoon, of course, but often the evenings are at least nice enough to

sit outside on the deck and scribble away at a bistro table with the geraniums at my side and the

Cardinals chirping away in the trees. The new writing schedule I've been using

this past month which seems to be sticking, yay, is a little more flexible than most

schedules I've used in the past. Usually I write in the afternoons, but at least a couple

nights a week, weather permitting,

I take my writing outside.

It's a nice change of scenery,

and there's always something about fresh air

and wide open spaces that seems to help my brain flow. Hopefully wherever you're at, you're able to get in some outside writing this summer as well.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast, taking your writing to the next level,

Whole Life Art.

You are a writer.

If you're listening to this podcast because you're jotting down a story, even if it's just on a napkin right now, then you get to call yourself a writer.

A writer, an author, a scribbler, a storyteller, maybe that's all

you are, maybe that's all there is to be.

But maybe not. Maybe there's more that we as writers can aspire to. A few months ago I'm used on how

authors can level up to become artists. While that pursuit is one mostly executed from within the

trenches of the craft, I think one important aspect is an all-engulfing

concept I've recently taken to calling whole life art.

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