This is K.M. Wyland and you're listening to the 300 second episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast.

I am not a big fan of deadlines. Not because I can't or don't meet them. I almost always finish projects far ahead of deadline.

I just don't like the mental pressure of knowing that a deadline, however far it may be in the future, is bearing down on me.

So I always give myself plenty of time on deadlines whenever possible.

That's why I decided to give myself a publication date for my historical aviation novel

Storming of December instead of October.

But even with those two extra months, I find myself getting closer to crunch time. I just realized that, gas, it's already

August. I'm only a month away from my unofficial finish major edits deadline, which means I need to get cracking.

If you see a blur of ink and paper on the horizon for the next month, that's probably me. The latest post in the video series on

my blog is two ways to make the most of your story's climactic setting. It

points out some little- known considerations about creating an awesome

and perfectly planned climactic setting for your story.

To find the post, visit my site at helping writers become authors.com.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled

Most Common Writing Mistakes Part 43,

Too Many Exclamation points.

Exclamation points.

Woo-hoo yeah!

Is there any punctuation mark that could possibly be more fun for writers to use.

Okay, so there is the intero bang,

but that's still kind of the same difference.

Exclamation points are there to help us express

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