This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 350- fourth episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast. So, something I don't think I've officially announced yet

is that I'm only a month or so away from the publication of my next writing craft book.

This is what I've gotten lots of you asking me to do.

It's been several years in the works.

And honestly I think it's easily the most important book I've written to date.

And that is a book on character arts. It's titled Creating Character Arts,

The Masterful Authors Guide to Uniting Story Structure Plot and Character Development.

For me, Character Arks have been a huge light bulb in my own process, as well as

actually a big avenue for discovery in my own life and my own

personal growth aside from writing itself. Since of course we all experience

character arcs over and over and over again within our own lives.

It's the realism of that growth cycle that makes character arcs work so well and achieves

such important results within written fiction.

So I'm just finishing off the last round of proofreading,

so I hope to see the book release no later than November.

Stay tuned for more on that.

The latest post on my blog is How to Choose Your Story's Perfect Antagonist.

Want to learn how to choose the right antagonist for your story.

All you have to do is double check him against this four-part checklist.

Find out why Ant-Man just might have chosen the wrong protagonist for its story

and how you can avoid falling into the same hole.

This is the 12th in the series the do's and don'ts of storytelling according to Marvel, which

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