This is KAM Island and you're listening to the to finishing the brand spanking new first chapter, which included such fun new adventures as

standing down a charging Cape Buffalo and playing polo.

The weather's finally warming up around here, my three little kittens are just about too cute to bear, and my story is cooperating 100%.

Beautiful, sunshiny summer must be on the way, yeah?

Does your story maintain consistency in the details?

The latest post in the video series on my blog discusses some of the more notorious

inconsistencies in Elizabeth Gascal's classic wives and daughters as a warning for authors to check their facts.

You can watch the video on my blog at wordplay-K-M-Yland, that's W E I L A N D,

dot blog spot dot com.

New videos are posted every Wednesday.

Meanwhile, enjoy this week's podcast.

The secret ingredient of original stories.

Over half a million books were published in the last year alone.

Makes you wonder if maybe everything there is to be said has already been said, doesn't it?

With so many new books churning from the print mills every day,

surely every idea has been done to death.

What room is left for originality?

You may look at the half-finished manuscript in your computer

folder and then click through the latest releases on Amazon and cringe at how similar

some of them sound to your own story. Are there any original stories left to be written?

And if so, how do you find one to write?

I'm about to give you the answers, but not without a most important caveat.

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