This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 309th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast.

I had a lot of fun this month sharing my potential back cover blurbs for storming with all of you and getting your feedback on which you thought

was the best. Now that's under our belt I got to move on to commissioning the

cover art from my go-to cover guys at Damansa where by the way you can get a 5% discount if you use the

affiliate link in the right-hand sidebar of my site and the code H. W. B. A. 5.

I have been super excited about the cover possibilities for this book pretty much ever

since I came up with the idea so it's kind of heady now to know the first draft options could be arriving in my inbox any day now.

I'll try to share them with you guys as well and get your take.

In the meantime, if you see a very red-faced writer walking around,

that's me holding my breath in anticipation.

The latest post in the video series on my blog is warning. Your poor choice of your character's goal is killing your story.

It talks about the crucial difference between your character's goal in the overall story and within individual scenes and how getting

the two mixed up can irremediably endanger your book's success.

To find the post, visit my site at helping writers become authors.com.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled How to Edit Fiction.

Watch me correct my own story in real time.

Teaching writers how to edit fiction

is one of those things that can be surprisingly counterintuitive.

Most books and articles about editing are actually nothing more or less than books and articles on good writing.

After all, the fundamentals of good self-editing are the fundamentals of good writing. The skill set for good editing is no different from that of good writing.

An understanding of grammar and style, knowledge about character development, awareness of story structure. and the

and general awareness of story structure and the Genes Sequoah necessary to make narrative pop.

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