This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 500th ninth episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast.

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info at podtone.com to get started today. Other than trying to stay cool

while keeping my first attempt at a garden weeded. I've been

spending this month madly organizing my pile of notes for my fantasy

manuscript. Thank heavens for Scribner and its endless supply of folders and sub-folders.

But at the same time, curse you, Scrivener because my file for this book has turned into a veritable

labyrinth of crazy notes stuck here and stuck there.

My brain was starting to overload.

So I decided to take the time, several weeks as it's turned out, to sort through everything I've typed up so

for before further organizing what I hadn't yet transcribed.

So far it's been a spring of notekeeping and transcribing, which is probably good since it's given me a little

extra time for that weeding. And now I hope you enjoy from someplace nice and cool, this week's episode, which is titled

Using All Four Cognitive Functions, as a writer.

My heart is so full as I write this. So many things going on in the world right now, both good and bad.

It makes me reflect, not for the first time, on the tremendous gift given to writers in the simple fact that we have a place to put not just our feelings, but every other aspect of our cognitive experiences as humans.

We often think of writing as an act of either imagination or logic.

But because becoming a balanced writer is about nothing less than

becoming a balanced human, it should be no surprise that the best writing makes use of everything.

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