This is K.M. Wylind. and you are listening to the 260th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

We are rolling right along on the workbooks for outlining your novel and structuring your novel.

Both are formatted and the cover art is in.

So a few more proof reads and they should be in your hands.

I had so many of you ask about the workbooks

that I'm really excited for their

potential to be helpful in making the principles I talk about in the books

actionable and easily applicable. So stay tuned. I should have a release date for you soon.

The latest post in the video series on my blog is how to write a gut-wrenching tragic scene

thanks to one surprising detail.

It contains a confession for me,

slightly counterintuitive advice on how to write a tragic scene and an absolutely spot-on example from Victor

Hugo's Lamezor-Rob. 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 Use rewards and Punishments to Get Your Character to Change.

How do you get your character to change?

As simple as this question may seem, it's also a super practical and important question that deserves an equally practical answer.

At this point in our journey through Character Arts, I hope you're as stoked as I am about the

potential of well-structured inner journeys for your characters,

whether they're positive change, flat, or negative change arcs.

So you join in the general cheer, hip-horee for character arcs, and roll up your sleeves to implement an awesome change

arc in your story. But then you run up against that gaping quandary. How do you get your character to change? The first thing you do is run

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