This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 184th episode of the wordplay podcast.

You know that feeling you get when you're careening down a ski slope covering as much ground

as possible and only a minor over correction away from turning into a giant snowball.

If you're a successful skier, you've probably never experienced this.

But if you ski like me, then you definitely have.

At any rate, that's sort of how my writing life

fills these days. I'm careening along at 50 miles per hour covering lots of

ground getting lots done but it's pretty much the same old all, which doesn't leave much of interest to share.

So suffice it that the writing, rewriting, and researching continues into the frosty depths of January. Instead of a blog post this week, I've posted a survey asking for your input on various aspects

of the blog, blog, and of course, podcast. If you have a minute, please stop

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

The eighth in the series structuring your stories scenes

this installment is titled

Options for Reactions in a sequel at the heart of every sequel is the narrating character's reaction to the preceding

scene's disaster. This is where the author gets the opportunity to dig around inside his character's emotional

and mental processes and find out what he's really made of. The scene is

about external action. The sequel is about internal reaction. The sequel will sometimes be entirely confined to the POV

characters mind. Other times it will be dramatized through action or dialogue.

Although the sequel possesses three basic and unavoidable parts, just like the scene,

it is much more flexible in execution.

The three parts may take place within a single sentence

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