Welcome to the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast. I'm K.M. Weiland, 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 and welcome.

Where do our stories come from?

Not just theoretically or archetypally, but for each of us as individuals.

From where do our stories, our romances, mysteries, fantasies, dramas, tragedies, and comedies

actually arise?

Even when, prompted by outer inspiration, they still come from somewhere deep inside of us,

from a deeply human connection.

And where does this connection come from? Where is this mysterious deep inside us

place of inspiration? Perhaps a bit counterintuitively, it's in the body, not in some mystical

elsewhere or mental abstraction, but in the physical fact of being alive. And this is why embodied writing is one of the keys

that allows authors to create with greater vision, authenticity, and originality.

Writers are thinkers. As highly mental people, we can sometimes fall under the impression that stories come to us

through the mental channel, or perhaps more vaguely from the misty out there that is our imagination.

But really, all of that is grounded in the body, in the physical brain, in the electric firings

of our energy, in the intuitive accuracy of the gut.

Now, it's true, stories take shape through research, memory, or observation.

We construct, guide, and understand stories through our intellectual and philosophical capacity.

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