This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 306th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

Podcast. My historical superhero work in progress has been a bit of a bumpy ride for me

so far but I've rounded a corner finally here recently

and I'm having a really good time with it. It's still way longer than I want it to be.

It's on track for 200,000 words.

But the main character and I are having such a good conversation,

so how can I beef about that?

It is funny though how different an experience this one was from

writing my last work-and-progress storming. I ripped that first draft off in about

three months whereas it's looking like wayfare is going to take me the full year.

Still, slow and steady, always works for me.

The latest post in the video series on my blog is the Pixar way to think about story conflict.

It offers two lessons you can learn from the complicated story conflict in Toy Story to improve

your own writing.

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

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled How to Write a Sequel that's Better than the first book.

We live in a world of sequels.

In large part the sequel is a rather modern invention.

Jane Austin wrote no sequels to her beloved pride and prejudice.

We had to wait until 1949's Pemberley Shades for that.

Dickens wrote no sequels, although his chronic serialization was in its way precursor.

And it took two Kill a Mockingbird 55 years to get its sequel.

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