This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 244th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

I am excited to announce that my next book out will be Jane Eyre, the Writers Digest

annotated Classic.

I am thrilled to be able to be the first author with a book

in this brand new series from Writers Digest books.

The series is going to feature annotations on the texts of

classic novels designed to help writers understand the power and

longevity of these stories and how you can learn to apply these same principles in your own story.

For me, being able to write the annotations to J&A was an absolute gift.

I learned more in writing this book than in the writing of just

about anything else I've ever done. So I hope readers will be able to get even half

as much out of reading it as I did in writing it. The book is scheduled for release

on August 1st, 2014. So mark your calendars and stay tuned. Plenty more goodies coming up between

now and the launch.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled Most Common Writing Mistakes Part

30 describing character movements ranks as surprisingly high among common

writing mistakes.

Within the confines of a story, a character can only do three things.

He can think, he can talk, and he can move.

Out of the three, the first two lend themselves most gracefully to written literature since words are their very foundation.

Movement, although no less important, is a little trickier, and you might think the most difficult aspect of describing character

movements would be the descriptive challenges of showing readers exactly what your characters

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