This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the five hundredth, 20 episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast.

This episode of Helping Writers Become Authors is brought to you in partnership with Podtone. If you're a podcaster who's struggling or unsure about your recording quality, or if you need help editing, mixing, or mastering your podcast, you can visit the team who works with me every week at podtone.com or drop them an email at

info at podtone dot com to get started today.

So here's a fun bit of news, I think.

Currently, in the works is an audiobook version of my Gaslap Fantasy, which is my most recent novel.

And the fun thing about this is that it's going to be a full cast

audio production.

So I'm super excited to see, or rather hear it turns out and I hope to be sharing that with all of you sometime next year.

In the meantime, for those of you who are always asking me if my fiction is on audio. The only other novel right now that's on

audiobook is my portal fantasy dreamlander. And of course all my writing books are available as

audiobooks. Anyway I hope you enjoyed this

week's podcast the crucial link between your story's Inciding Event and

climactic moment.

We talk about story being an arc, but in many ways it is more of a circle.

A well-constructed story is a seamless whole in which its two halves reflect each other.

We see this clearly in classic story structure and perhaps nowhere more crucially than in the link between a story's

inciting event and climactic moment. I often talk about how the inciting event in the first act and the climactic moment in the third

act must bookend each other, or how the inciting event must ask a question that the climactic moment answers.

A few weeks ago in a comment on the post seven considerations for your

antagonist's motivations, Lido asked, can you explain a bit more on how the

inciting event asks a question that the climactic moment should be answering

in the result of the battle slash choice the protagonist makes in the climax.

...