This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 420 second episode of the Helping Writers

Become Authors Podcast. So I'm back from my recent

vacation to visit family and recovering from a fun bout of laryngitis

and also back to my halfway point review

edit of my portal fantasy work-and-progress dreambreaker. These review

edits are always one of my favorite parts of the process. They're fully functional of course but because they're brief

breaks in the actual writing they also always kind of feel like little rewards if I

like what I read of course which I usually do since I know if I have a problem, I will usually fix it as soon as I recognize it rather than waiting for an official edit.

I've thoroughly enjoyed every part of this book so far. It's so much fun to return to a previous story's characters and

settings. Now I'm asking myself why it took me this long to write a sequel. I understand now why so many of you are addicted to writing series.

This certainly won't be the last one I do. And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast How how to decide between plain prose and beautiful prose.

Truth is beauty. Beauty is truth.

This is perhaps nowhere more evident than an art, which deliberately and consciously

explores both. Words in particular are the explicit context in which humanity presents,

investigates, and shares its truth.

Perhaps more than any other art form, writing gives us a blatant venue for exploring

the truth side of the equation.

But of course, as writers, we are also of the equation. But of course as writers we are also given the

opportunity to create beautiful prose. It's the balance between the two that

can sometimes get tricky. Much like the creative logical balance of writing storytelling, creating

a meaningful harmony of beauty and truth demands two different skill sets. Learning how to evoke beauty from even the simplest truths

or truth from the most decadent beauty isn't always a straightforward proposition.

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