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Helping Writers Become Authors

How to Create Awesome Scene Arcs That Surprise Readers

Helping Writers Become Authors

K.M. Weiland

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2016

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:00.0

This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 31st episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

0:17.0

A few weeks ago you guys flooded in your votes for what type of writing course you wanted me to put together.

0:23.4

And the votes have it.

0:25.4

By popular demand, I've started intensive work on a heavy duty

0:30.4

full-on writing course about character arcs. I'm super excited you guys chose

0:36.9

this one since this is one of the writing topics I am most passionate about right

0:41.4

now. There is just so much juicy stuff to come. passionate about

0:45.0

character.

0:47.0

really my biggest problem is probably going to be keeping the course from being too long.

0:51.0

We're shooting for a course launch date in early May, so stay tuned. And in the meantime, I will

0:56.9

be knee-deep in microphones, PowerPoint slides, and lots of coffee. The latest post on my blog is,

1:05.0

Do you need a good book editor?

1:07.0

Top recommendations.

1:09.0

Where do I find a good book editor is, without doubt,

1:12.0

the question I receive most frequently from fellow writers.

1:15.4

So I decided to take the bull by the horns and ask other writing experts whose opinions I trust

1:21.4

for recommendations. This list is the result. To find it, visit my site at helping

1:26.6

writers become Authors.com. And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled

1:32.0

How to Create Awesome Scene Arks that will surprise readers.

1:38.3

There is a secret to writing good scenes, and since scenes are be supposed to learn this secret is not

1:51.3

scene structure in the classic sense of goal, conflict, disaster,

1:55.5

reaction, dilemma, decision, although it is closely related. Like the integrals of structure,

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