This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the three hundred-fifth episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

Podcast. This is my favorite time of year. Everything just comes to life

including me in the warm months. It's usually a comparatively very happy tranquil time of

year for me and my creativity always feels very nurtured amongst all the

sunshine and growing plants. So it's been a great time of the year for me to start in on my

new outline for Dreambreaker, the sequel to my portal fantasy Dreamlander. I've also

switched up my schedule again so I can get up an hour earlier,

worked out and then brew that first crab of coffee and dive right into the writing.

And I love the outlining part of the process, perhaps more than any other. For me, this is a rampant few months of unleashed creativity and brainstorming.

There's zero pressure in an outline to write perfect prose,

or really to get anything perfect so instead I get to

chase all the rabbit trails in the story tracking down all the juicy developments

as I start really getting to know my story and developing a solid weave of cause an effect in the plot.

I'm still in the very early stages, what I call general sketches on this book, so there's so much to think about and consider in taking advantage of all the loose

ends from the first book. I hope your creativity is similarly thriving this summer.

The latest post on my blog is Use Minor Characters to flesh out your

protagonist. Did you know the most important function of Minor Characters has

nothing to do with them and everything to do with your

protagonist. Find out how Iron Man 2 use this technique to great a fact and how

you can do. This is the third in the series the do's and don'ts of storytelling, according to Marvel, which you can find on my site at helping writers become authors.com. And now I hope you enjoyed this

week's podcast entitled Most Common Writing Mistakes Part 52

Stagnant Story Conflict. What's so hard about story conflict?

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