This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 335th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast.

I was pondering this week how lucky we are to be writers.

Seriously, how many people get to spend time inside a story every single day?

For most people's stories are just two hours of entertainment,

grabbed at the theater on the weekend, or curled up with a novel

of an evening. But I, and you, get to go so much deeper than that every morning I wake up and think about making that first cup of

coffee and getting to sit down with my manuscript first thing.

Even when I'm in the midst of my least favorite chore, copy editing, as I am right now,

is still the best part of my day and I feel incredibly blessed to get to do it every single day. The latest post on my blog is

Are you telling the wrong story? What if the story you started out writing ends up being the wrong story. Learn how to spot

and correct this crucial problem by first learning to write a story that is two halves of a seamless whole.

Visit my site at helping writers become authors.com to read the post.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled Most Common Writing Mistakes Part 50, info dumps.

On its most fundamental level, a novel is nothing more or less than the dissemination of information. As such, the writer who understands

exactly where and how to share information is a writer who understands the most

fundamental skill of storytelling.

That's why Infodumps are such a big bad deal.

They're peanut butter in the delicate gears of your story's machinery.

They're clunky, awkward, and they gum up the works, sometimes fatally.

We sometimes consider Infodumps a nube mistake and yet the dance of avoiding them is actually

one of the most complicated challenges faced by any writer on every single page of a story. Today we're going to explore four

possible types of info dumps that might have warmed into your story. More than

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