This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 265th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast.

I'm still enjoying getting to spend an extra hour or so every day reading and calling it work since after all it is research I started out with three

massive piles of books I probably overdid it a smidge but I'm down almost two and a

half piles okay maybe two and a half piles. Okay, maybe two and a quarter piles, but I'm getting close. I'm hoping to finish my research by the end of the year so I can dive right in to my historical superhero story set in Regency, England, and called Wayfarer.

The latest post in the video series on my blog is, what's a

antagonist or how to keep story conflict high

without the antagonist.

It explains what a antagonist is and how you can use this important character to augment and

contrast your antagonist.

To find the post, visit my site at Helping Writers Become Authors.com.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast, entitled Story Concept and Story Premise.

Do you know the crucial difference?

What's up with story concept and story premise? Are they just interchangeable words for the same

idea or are they separate tools with their own important

jobs to fulfill?

I know you guys picked Door Number 2, because you're wicked smart like that, but it's the fact, story concept and story premise

are often used interchangeably,

which just goes to highlight the rampant confusion

about them.

So what's the diff? and why does it even matter? Story fixer

Larry Brooks said it as concisely as anybody in his free PDF deadly foes in

her life. A story about what it was like to be on the

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