Welcome to the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast. I'm K M. Wyland and I am here to take you

deep with story theory, writing techniques, and the incredible wisdom of story.

I believe story is the greatest power on this earth,

and that as writers, we carry the torch of wielding that power

with responsibility, passion, and skill.

There is no such thing as just a story.

Today, it is my honor and my purpose

to help you write your best story,

astound the world, and maybe change your life.

Hello everyone and welcome to this month's video.

I am Cam Wyland. I run the website helping writers become

authors and today we're going to be talking about beginnings and specifically

about how to introduce your characters in the beginning of your story, how to hook readers with your character,

and how to set up all the important parts of your character's development and arc that will happen in the entire rest of the story.

You may be watching this on YouTube or you may be listening to this as a podcast, as audio

only.

So if you prefer one or the other of those formats you can find

those on my website at helping writers become authors. If you're on YouTube it's also

linked down below and if you'd prefer a transcript if you'd rather read what I'm going to tell you,

then you can also find that on my website at helping writers become authors.com.

So this video was actually inspired by a question I received, a couple of questions that I received about endings.

And I'm going to talk about that in a future video, but first I thought I'd kind of bookend it by introducing some important considerations

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