This is K.M. Wyland. and you are listening to the 248th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast.

Aside from the Regency England Criminal Underworld of my historical superhero work in progress

wayfare.

I've also just dived into the next round of edits for my diesel punk historical

storming.

I'm really hoping to see this book in publication next year, so I'm wanting to get it off to the next round of

editors by the end of the month. It's always fun to return to a story after several months

and look at it with new eyes. And especially when new eyes love it as much as your old ones did.

In other news, I got to reveal the gorgeous cover for my upcoming writing craft book, Janere, the Writers Digest, annotated classic.

Artist Chris Kohler provided an awesome new artistic rendition of everyone's favorite star Cross lovers, Jane and Rochester.

You can see the cover on my site at Helping Writers Become Authors.com, the book will launch on

August 1st. And now I hope you enjoy this week's podcast entitled

How to Write a Flat Character Art Part 3, The Third Act. The Third Act is the third act is where we find arguably the greatest similarities between the flat character

arc and the positive change arc.

Since in both types of story the protagonist will have a full grasp on the truth

by this point.

The primary difference, of course, is that the protagonist in a flat character arc will already have been in possession of that truth almost

universally throughout the story.

The other difference is that in a flat arc select supporting characters who are representative of the world around the protagonist

will have reached the point in their change arcs where the protagonist's truth will have convinced them to reject the lie.

The protagonist will still be facing overwhelming odds, but he won't be facing them alone.

Even should he die now?

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