This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 414th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

Procast.

I am so happy to be back to writing in the big rush to finish up the last of my year-long remodeling projects before Christmas

Company arrived.

I took a break from my portal fantasy sequel, Dreambreaker, from about the middle of November

to the middle of December.

In December I went back to the beginning and did one of my 50 page edits,

in which I reread what I have so far,

both to clean up the text and to reorient myself within the big picture of the story.

Now, just in time to turn the corner into the New Year, I'm back to writing.

It's always interesting to find your feet in a story again after being away from it for a significant period of time.

So I wasn't quite sure what to expect, especially since I'd been struggling so much with distraction in my last few writing sessions before taking a break, but I'm very

happy to announce that I dove back in without a hitch, and I'm having as much fun with this story

as ever.

I'm only about 33% in this first draft has taken me much longer to write than I'm only about 33% in this first draft has taken me much longer to write than I was hoping

in a new small part because of how monster big it's turning out to be.

But I'm hoping to hit it hard and see it finished within the coming year.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast.

Five Secrets of Good Storytelling that writers forget all the time.

I'm having a harder and harder time getting excited about stories these days.

Not because I don't love stories, but because I do love them

and because it's ever increasingly difficult to find truly great ones

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