This is K.M. Wyland and you're listening to the 122 episode of the word play podcast.

Rewriting isn't usually something I would list as one of my top ten favorite parts of the

writing process.

It's more like one of those things you have to do if you're a responsible human being.

Kind of like dusting the house and cleaning the kitty litter.

Well, maybe not that bad.

But this last rewrite of Dreamlander has so far been a complete blast, and I'm thoroughly enjoying myself.

So far I'm just sprucing up the first couple chapters.

Nothing radical more just filling in some necessary blanks and flushing out my fantasy world

a bit more.

I may change my mind about how fun this is when I get into the

nitty gritty of writing from scratch a handful of chapters here in another week or so. But for

now, this rewrite is behaving so beautifully. It's almost more fun than creating a brand new story. Who'd have thought great?

Are your dialogue beats repetitious? The latest post in the video series on my blog analyzes the pitfalls of repetitious action beats and offers suggestions for keeping your actions fresh and interesting between lines of dialogue.

You can watch the video on my blog at wordplay-K-M-Y-L-E-I-N-D dot blog spot.

New videos are posted every Wednesday.

And now I hope you enjoy this week's podcast.

How do you know which rules to break?

Writers are no exception to the artists or rebels stereotype.

We're rogues and rule breakers and proud of it.

Thank you, ma'am.

The only teensy little problem we have is that we're not always certain which rules to

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