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'm K.M. Wyland. I run the writing website helping writers become

authors.com and today I want to talk about a very important topic and that is

learning how to trust yourself as an artist rather than relying too much on other people's advice.

So this is a question that I receive in one form or another quite frequently from writers, particularly

writers who are just starting out and are trying to find that balance of honoring their own creativity

and their own creative instinct,

and which probably is quite strong or they wouldn't be interested in, you know, creating art and writing stories.

And balancing that against the need to learn and to understand the techniques and the

tenants of the craft as well as you know the very common bit of advice which is basically just seek advice that you need to you

know seek resources that can help you understand writing now I like to say I say often that writing a novel is an extremely complex art form

really creating any type of story whether it's a screenplay or whatever else

writing a story is a very complex art form.

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