This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 360 third episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast.

Happy Thanksgiving week. I hope you're gearing up for a wonderful week of family, friends,

football, good food, and maybe some good shopping deals.

I'm considering doing my first ever Black Friday shopping trip, so wish me luck.

As always this year, I am overwhelmed with things to be

thankful for. It's been a challenging year for me in many ways due to some

unexpected developments in my personal life but I feel it has been a year in which God has used those same challenges to bless me in ways I wouldn't even have been able to imagine.

One blessing is simply the amazing Indian summer that continues to make this the warmest fall on record.

As I take my coffee, my notebook, and my iPad outside to my writing table every morning, I feel incredibly thankful to be able to immerse myself

in the beautiful struggles of imagination and creation.

And I am just as thankful to get to share the beauty and the struggle of the artistic life with all of you.

Happy Thanksgiving.

The latest post on my blog is How to Write Stories Readers Will Find Unexpected.

If you want to Write Stories, Readers will Find Unnexpected,

and that will delight them with the realism of your plot twists.

You need to learn about the double switcher rue. To read the post, visit

my site at helping writers become authors.com. And now I hope you enjoyed this week's

podcast entitled How to Outline for Nanohimo Part 8,

Making the Most of Character Interviews.

Plot and Character aren't so different after all.

In fact, in many ways ways they're the same thing.

Over the course of the last seven episodes as you've focused on outlining your

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