This is K.M. Island and you are listening to the 501st episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors website.

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I find myself in the middle of a number of projects right now.

I've been spending a lot of my morning writing time, as I'll

mention later in the podcast, working on some new character arc theories that I'm

hoping will help me problem solve my way through my work in progress's outline. I'll have to work more directly on those problems soon, but for the time being I'm spending a lot of time on the theories themselves, which has been fun, both because it's interesting

and also because it feels way more productive than I had been feeling when directly working

on the novel.

I'm also plugging along with first round edits on my new

non-fiction book writing your story's theme which I'm still hoping to make

available later this year so we'll see how that goes. For now I hope you enjoyed this

week's podcast. Seven ways writing saves us when life is hard.

Tic-talk, the clock rolls on, marking time for all of us who are in the day-by-day

progression of processing our understanding of and reaction to the

nearly global and mostly voluntary quarantine in response to the startling arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic.

My own emotions have been all over the map from a rational and pragmatic outlook one minute to having all my germophobic tendencies massively triggered the next to a deep-wrenching sadness for just everything. To a

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