This is KAMWylant and you are listening to the 139th episode of the word play podcast.

One of the fun things about rewriting is the fact that your daily word counts

escalate simply by virtue of half the words already having been written.

I can't help an evil chuckle of glue when I check my count at the end of each day,

and see that I've tripled, or even quadrupled, the 800 to 1,000 words I usually call a good day.

Of course, if I were honest, I would remind myself

that I'm not really clocking that many words a day. If I'm lucky half of those are new editions.

But still, it does give a nice little glow of gratifying productivity at the end of each day.

Are you giving readers the tools to understand your story?

The latest post in the video series on my blog talks about when and how to explain pertinent

details to your readers using examples from Lisa Sheerran's Fantasy, Magic Lost, Trouble Found. You can watch the video on my blog at wordplay-K-M-Y-L-N-D dot blog spot.

New videos are posted every Wednesday.

And now, I hope you enjoy this week's podcast,

The Secrets of Story Structure Part 3.

Introducing Characters, Settings, and Stakes.

Once you've hooked the reader, your next task is to put your early chapters to work introducing

your characters, settings, and stakes.

The first

at first glance this can seem like a tremendous chunk of story to devote to

to introductions.

But if you expect readers to stick with you throughout the story

you first have to give them a reason to care.

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