This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 258 episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

I'm pleased to announce that in a couple days on Friday, September 5th at 6 p.m.

Mountain Daylight Time, I'll be presenting my webinar, outlining your novel,

create a roadmap to storytelling success free to members of the American Christian

Fiction Writers Association.

So if you're not a member and have been contemplating joining,

now is a good time.

And if not, I'm sure I'll be presenting the webinar again in the future.

The latest post in the video series on my blog is John Ford on creating vivid characters with minimum effort.

It shows how a little subtext can make vivid characters out of your entire cast.

To find the post, visit my site at helping writers become authors.com.

And now, I hope you enjoy this week's podcast entitled

should all your minor characters have hearts. If your protagonist's

character arc has the ability to deepen your story, then just think how much depth you can create if all your minor characters have arcs.

It's a dizzying concept, isn't it? And it raises the somewhat trepidacious

question should all your minor characters have arks. It's a fair question. After all, we want all of our supporting characters to be just as dimensional and lifelike as our protagonist.

We want them to be the heroes of their own stories.

So doesn't that mean they should all have

arcs of their own?

Maybe, but maybe not, too.

Here's the thing about giving full-fledged arcs to all your minor characters.

You well go bats.

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