This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 200 fourth episode of the word play podcast. This week's big news

is the second 50 page or halfway edit in Storming. I'll start it on that today but

at this point I don't have any outstanding problems that I know about

Everything seems to be looking good the halfway point marks a significant change in the story from reaction to action on the main

characters part. In this story it also signifies a big jump in the level of

danger and adventure.

The bad guy shows up to make some weighty demands at the midway mark, and our hero has to figure

out just what he's willing to do to stop him. Let's just say that since the protagonist is a biplane pilot,

there will be plenty of fancy flying involved.

The Smart Edit Software Software tutorial, the latest post in the video series on my blog reviews a wonderful new editing software and walks you through how to use it. To watch it, visit my website at www. Helping Writers Become Authors.com.

New videos are posted every Wednesday.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast,

exclusive dialogue when readers don't know what your characters are talking about.

A good story will always be a balance between providing readers necessary information and keeping them curious by not

giving them all the info. Nowhere is this more true than in dialogue.

Make no mistake, this is a tough wire on which to balance.

Give readers too much juice and the not only grow bored, they may also feel as if you are dumping info on them or condescending to them from your top lofty summit of superior knowledge.

But give them too little info and them not only suffer confusion, they may still end up presenting you for condescension.

So how does that work anyway? How can you condescend to readers by not dumping info or flaunting your knowledge.

This is where we run smack into the problem of exclusive dialogue. So what is exclusive dialogue.

So what is exclusive dialogue?

Think of exclusive dialogue as an inside joke.

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