This is K.M. Island, and you're listening to the 63rd episode of the Word Play Podcast.

I indulged in my secret identity as a geek this week, and added a handful of long overdue goodies

to my blog.

Among other things, it now sports spiffy new social site buttons, like buttons and boxes all of Facebook,

and a slideshow of my books.

I've also added a badge that you can put on your own site to show you're a reader or listener of word play and to help

spread the word to your friends and followers.

Of course I'm also still writing away at my historical work in progress, the deepest breath.

I think I finally hit that feeling of the first 50-page blues.

Every novel I write gifts me with at least one period in which I start wondering what intonation I'm doing in this crazy writing business.

Insecurities and doubts come out of the woodwork, and I'm reminded of William Faulkner's mission that the work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

The good news is I've been through this with every story, and as long as I keep writing I always pull

through. So here's the keeping on.

The benefits of saying less,

the latest post in the video series on my blog

takes a look at Ernest Hemingway's

a farewell to arms, and his famed mastery of brevity.

You can watch the video on my blog at wordplay-K-M-Y-L-N-Yland, that's W-E-I-L-N- D. BlogSpot.com.

New videos are posted every Wednesday.

Meanwhile, enjoy this week's podcast.

Should you edit as you go?

Authors are passionately divided on the subject of editing in medias race.

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