This is K.M. Wilent.

This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 2607th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast.

Well, my fun bit of news this week is that who should end up sharing one of my picks on Facebook but Robert Downey Jr.

himself. It's kind of a funny story. I created a little meme-like funny last year

using funny picks of everyone's favorite non-superpowered

superhero to illustrate the various stages of the writing process.

Naturally I hoped it would go viral, but no such luck.

Then what should happen a year later, but the post somehow gets discovered by whoever runs

RDJ's page and suddenly has hundreds of thousands of likes and thousands of shares.

Go figure.

Needless to say, it made my week.

So if you'd like to see the funny, you can find it on my Pinterest page on the board called The Right Stuff.

The latest post in the video series on my blog is why you might be ruining your story's best

scenes.

It talks about why appropriate repercussions are the earmark of the best scenes in any story.

To find the post, visit my site at helping writers become authors.com and now I hope you

enjoy this week's podcast entitled Most Common Writing Mistakes Part 35

Random Story Elements. random story elements. Even the simplest of stories aren't simple. Most of them

featured dozens of characters, settings, POVs, themes, conflicts, and on and on.

A good story is made up of more working parts

than most of us can wrap our little brains around in any one moment.

Sometimes all these many working parts of the story can get away from us.

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