This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 5th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast. So just a quick note today, as you may have heard, Amazon has launched its own podcast platform via Amazon Music. So if you prefer to listen

that way via an Alexa device or any mobile device with the Amazon Music app, you can now access the helping writers

become Authors Podcast on that platform as well as others including Apple Podcasts and

Spotify. You can also listen to the podcast directly off my site. The

audio version can be found at the bottom of every post as well as in the

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toolbar and now I hope you enjoyed this week's episode the power of Kaiastic

story structure especially in a series.

When writers put on their story theorist caps,

nothing is more exciting than those moments

when you get to recognize consistent patterns

emerging within obvious story forms.

This is the basis of all of our understanding and musing about story, including the kaiastic

story structure we've been studying these past few months.

Although writers sometimes think of story structure as something external and therefore rather arbitrary

that we impose on a story in order to make it look a certain accepted way

it is actually just the opposite. Story structure in all its

mini-positive forms is simply a record of the long recognized patterns that have

emerged from humankind's millennia of stories.

By a certain point in the pursuit of story, most writers become familiar with what is now considered the standard three-act structure.

But as we've been exploring in this little series, another lesser-known pattern that emerges from this foundation is that of Kaiastic story structure.

And I just realized this week that I've been mispronouncing this all along. It's not keyastic, it's kaiastic.

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