This is K.M. Lyland.

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So I almost hesitate to say this because I don't want to jinx myself, but I feel like maybe I've finally broken through the never-ending circle of doom, which has been my plot block with my fantasy sequels for the past year or so.

I had you really think outside the box I created for myself,

ditch my entire concept for my antagonistic force,

adopt a new system of archetypal character

arcs, and get down and dirty with my application of theme. Days are still young, and

I still have many questions to answer for myself, but I'm

starting to have hope for this story again after all.

So that's my good news for the week and in other good news I hope

you enjoyed this week's podcast five ways to help writers during the

pandemic.

Writers are no strangers to uncertain times. Living in a constant state of creation means living with at least one foot in chaos all the time.

More than that, trying to earn a living or even just enough to give us a few spare hours to keep writing is tricky even in the best of economic

climates. And things got a whole lot trickier for writers everywhere with the explosion of

global unrest earlier this year.

Whether we're thinking about ourselves, our fellow writers, or simply the state of the

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