This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 330th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast.

As most of my listeners are probably already aware, I've written both a book and a workbook

on outlining your novel. They're designed to be used hand in hand with the workbook providing questions and exercises to help you put the principles in the main book into practice in brainstorming and creating your own stories. As such, they were ripe for a box set.

So if you haven't already read outlining your novel and would like to, you can now grab the digital version of both

the book and the workbook in a discounted bundle. With over 300 pages of step-by-step guidance these two individual books have 440 plus five-star reviews

on Amazon and have helped literally thousands of authors write their books so they

will help you choose the right type of outline to unleash your creativity,

guide you in brainstorming plot ideas, and aid you in discovering your characters.

If you're interested, you can find the box set in the store on my website, look in the top toolbar, or on Amazon,

Barnes & Noble, and related retail sites.

The latest post on my blog is, why cool characterits just for the sake of Cool are not cool.

The last thing any writer wants to do is waste a great idea.

So learn to take advantage of the character traits that are most likely to interest your readers.

Define the Post, visit my site at helping writers become authors.com.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled The Four Tweaks to writing truly original stories and characters.

The process of writing

original stories is shrouded in mystery.

Occasionally as part of my daily writing question of the day on

Twitter and Facebook, I'll ask,

what makes your story original?

It's a question that tends to get fewer responses

than normal.

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