This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 340th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

I was excited here recently to ink the contracts for a Chinese translation of both my books outlining your novel and

structuring your novel. The Chinese versions will be joining their Japanese

and Korean brethren. Foreign translations are insanely fun and

insanely weird. I don't think there's anything stranger than holding a copy of a book

you wrote, but of which you can't read a single word or even a letter in this case it's like seeing your child

with a completely different face still it's very cool and I'm super excited about

reaching the Chinese market and any of you who happen to be able to do what I cannot

and read Chinese.

The latest post on my blog is How to Write

Characters who are children.

One of the trickiest types of characters to get right are children.

So learn these major tips for how to write child characters that resonate with readers.

You can visit my site at helping writers become

authors.com to find the post. And now I hope you enjoyed this week's

podcast entitled How to Write Faster and Sell More Books and and and why you maybe shouldn't. So today I'm going to be contradictory. First

I'm going to show you how to master a killer skill, namely how to write faster, and then I'm going to tell you why you shouldn't use it.

There are two reasons you might be interested in learning how to write faster. One, your daily word count is abysmal and you're

having trouble creating any kind of forward momentum in your daily writing sessions. Number two, you want to write faster in order to finish and publish more books more quickly,

in order to meet the demands and take advantage of the opportunities provided by today's book market.

The first reason is pretty self-explanatory, but let's take just a minute to look more closely

at the second.

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