This is KAMWyland and you are listening to the one hundred-fourth episode of the word play podcast.

The writing life is very much the same old, same all.

We sit at our computer, we type words, we delete words, we put them back in, then we pull out a few hairs, paste around the room a few times,

sucked down a cup of coffee, and then we're back to it.

But for all that, the writing life is also one of incredible variety.

This past week, I got to participate in a sword fight.

I swished between worlds by way of a magical transporting rock.

I got knocked out.

I was enslaved by a race of tiny shrivel raisin face creatures and I accidentally

resurrected a dread warlord.

All in all, it was a good week. Don't even think about using first person unless.

The latest post in the video series on my blog

talks about one very important qualification

that must be present in every first-person narration

and without which your story is doomed.

You can watch the video on my blog at wordplay-K-M-Y-L-M-Y-L-N-D. blog spot.com.

New videos are posted every Wednesday.

Most Common Mistake Series Part 14.

The Case of the vanishing setting.

As authors we usually consider ourselves the masters of the crimes committed in our stories, not the victims.

But as Sherlock, Miss Marple, and Rick Castle will tell you,

the sneakiest crimes are always those in which the victim doesn't even realize he's been ripped off.

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