Welcome to the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast. I'm K.M. Weilland, 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 week's video. My name is K.M. Wyland. I run the writing

website helping writers become authors. And today I want to take a moment to talk about eight of the

lessons that I've learned over my years of being a writer. Just some of the bigger

kind of epiphanies and moments that have impacted me in a way that's changed my life really,

and that's been meaningful on a deep level. And that I think are valuable to kind of hear

about and perhaps relate to or

or just recognize that they may at some point be a part of your writing journey as well.

So lesson number one is that story structure is amazing. So obviously this is something that I

learned relatively early on in my writing journey and has

completely changed my life because I've built a career around teaching story theory and story

structure. And when I first encountered story structure, I had written, I think, oh, four or five

novels probably without really knowing anything about writing like I hadn't read

any how-to books or encountered any ideas from other people. It was just, you know, the stories that,

you know, came from my own heart and my own imagination and obviously the osmosis from being a

lifelong reader. But I didn't have any concept that there was like systems through which you could view writing and storytelling.

And so I remember when I first learned about that and my first thought was, well, my first thought was like, this is amazing.

Like this is incredible because it absolutely, you know, just made sense.

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