This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 250 first episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

As I'm researching the way on my Regency England superhero story wayfare, I'm really enjoying Scribbs subscription service for e-books.

I was lucky enough to get a free year-long trial via a one-time offering from SmashWords. Otherwise I probably never would have tried it out.

Think Netflix for e-books and you'll get the basic idea.

Scripps Library is impressively large and aside from just pleasure reading, it's also

saved me from having to purchase half a dozen research books, so I expect I'll be continuing

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The latest post in the series on my blog is, do you know the answer to your story's most

important question? It helps you figure out your story's most important question.

It helps you figure out your story's defining dramatic question

and how that question determines both your story's

perfect beginning and ending place. To find the post, visit my site at helping writers become authors.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled How to Write a Negative Character

Part 1, The First Act. how to write a negative character part one the first act.

Who in Heaven's name would want to write a negative character? Well, how about Shakespeare, Dotsdewe, Faulkner, and Flaubert?

Just to name a few small-time wordsmiths, you may have heard tell of.

Everybody likes a happy ending, but let's face it.

Not all stories have happy endings.

Negative change arcs won't give readers the warm fuzzies and spawn date night movie adaptations,

but they do have the ability to create stories of unparalleled

power and resonance if they're true. Truth resonates whether it's happy or hard,

and some of the hardest truths to swallow

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