This is KAM Wyland and you are listening to the 500th third episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast.

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So I've gotten into a routine in these last weeks of the pandemic quarantine

and am making slow but steady progress on all my writing projects.

Not much to share right now, although I hope to have several exciting things to share in

the future months due to all this work.

I hope you're finding time to write and finding a way to let

writing help you during this continuing time wherever it may find you. This week I

hope you enjoy the podcast. Four Ways Writing improves your relationship with yourself.

Writing, especially the writing of stories, is ultimately a relationship with one's self. It is true that we write to communicate

with others, perhaps that is even the foremost conscious motivation sometimes. But communication

itself necessitates a relationship.

And what we are trying to communicate is ourselves,

that unfolding inner dialogue between the self and the self,

the observer and the self, the observer and the observed, the unconscious and the

conscious, the muse, and the recorder. You must have a relationship with your

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