This is K.M. Island, and you are listening to the 400-third episode of The Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

Welcome back everyone.

I took a couple weeks off from the podcast this month so I could share some informative

posts on the blog that slanted a little more toward the marketing

side of the biz. I don't talk too much about that side of things since I still in no way consider

myself an expert, but I was happy to share posts from several

professional marketers, one from Catherine Marsh with some insights into the question,

why do so many bad books sell so well on Amazon?

And another from Dave Chasan talking about the software program publisher Rocket, which helps

writers figure out the right categories and keywords for promoting their work,

and which has become one of my favorite marketing tools.

But today we're back with a new episode, talking about the nitty gritty of actually writing those

books. So I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast How to Make Your Plot a Powerful Thematic

metaphor.

Your thematic principle is the unifying idea that emerges as the meaning behind your character's

adventures in their story world. Once you have identified your

story's thematic principle, the real work begins. How will you seamlessly mate

theme to plot.

Masterful authors create stories that on their surfaces may seem to be entirely

plot and yet are deeply thematic.

They do this by getting their readers or viewers to feel. them at with invisible threads of

threads of highly sophisticated metaphor.

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