This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 350-third episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast. I've always been an outdoors person but as a writer I largely live in

indoors life. This summer, however, I've done everything I can to be outside as much as possible.

A few years ago I bought a portable laptop tray, which is basically just a little rolling table.

And I use it all the time for transporting my writing to various locations.

Lately, my favorite has been taking it outside onto the front step where I can sit in the

shade all morning, breathe the cool freshness of the sprinklers, listen to the meadow larks,

watch the rabbits in the yard, and work on my outline for my

portal fantasy sequel Dreambreaker. It's been invigorating to be outside so much. Creativity always seems more fresh, more real out there.

So it only makes sense to take my own creativity outside too.

And I hope you get the chance to try it yourself before the cold

weather descends upon us. The latest post on my blog is the right way and the

wrong way to foreshadow a story. Sloppy or forced

foreshadowing leaves readers feeling confused and manipulated. So I offer four

things to avoid in figuring out how to

foreshadow your story and find out why the Avengers age of all turn struggled with

all of them and how you can take warning to make your story even stronger.

This is the 11th in the series the do's and don'ts of story telling according to

Marvel, which you can find on my site at helping writers become authors.com.

And now I hope you enjoy this week's podcast entitled The Only Five Ingredients

you Need for Story Subtext. If there's a magic ingredient in writing, it's subtext. It's

actually not magic of course anymore than any of the other demystified techniques of structure, theme, or character.

But subtext often seems like magic simply because by its very nature it is the execution of the unexplained.

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