This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the two hundred seventeenth episode of the word play podcast.

As you may remember, one of the projects I've been working on this year is a book I'm writing

for Writers Digest books called Jane Eyre, the Classic Annotated for Readers and Writers.

I actually finished the first draft way back in February or March, which was quite a bit ahead

of my editor's deadline, so I'm just starting to hear back from her name. which was that they've been able to sign

so I'm just starting to hear back from her now.

One of the exciting things she had to say

was that they've been able to sign on best-selling historical author

Diana Bolden to write the foreword. Needless to say

I'm pretty excited about that. Not every day your name gets to appear on a book cover

alongside someone who's sold about a gazillion books.

Anyway, the annotated Jane Eyre is scheduled for a June 2014 release.

So, stay tuned for developments on that.

Misdirection, why we have to fool our readers.

The latest post in the video series on my blog compares authors to magicians and talks about why the art of

misdirection is a crucial scale. To watch it, visit my website at helping writers

become authors.com.

New videos are posted every Wednesday.

And now I hope you enjoy this week's podcast entitled Most Common Mistakes Part 25, characters who lack solid goals.

Characters have to want something, right? That's the whole point of a story.

The character wants something, the antagonistic force gets in his way, conflict ensues.

Bing, bang, boom. So it's totally a no-brainer to point out that a book in which a character

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