This is KAMWylant and you are listening to the 140th episode of the wordplay podcast.

Something kind of fun and exciting that happened this week

was an invitation that landed in my inbox from the Gotham Writers Workshop.

Gotham is the largest adult education writing school in the country with an emailing list of

over 75,000. So of course I was both a little flapper-gasted and very

excited when they offered to feature an excerpt from and a giveaway of outlining your novel map your way to success in one of their letter issues.

Other than that and a spray knee that resulted from inspiration overload, long story, my week has

been another of steady and rewarding writing, writing, writing, writing.

I'm mentioning nearer to the climax in Dreamlander and enjoying every minute.

The biggest danger of multiple POVs, the latest post in the video series on my blog,

cautions against the potential pitfall of having readers grow frustrated with one POV as the result of liking another much better.

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

dot com new videos I posted every Wednesday and now I hope you enjoy this

week's podcast. The Secrets of Story Structure Part 4, the first plot point.

Stories are a series of scenes.

Some of those scenes are expected.

Some of them are even purposely repetitious for the sake of emphasis.

But some scenes change everything.

These game changers are the plot points. They introduce significant elements and events that alter the subsequent course of the story.

Your story can have any number of plot points, some relatively minor, some shockingly huge. Plot points are what keep your story moving forward. They mix things up, keep the conflict fresh, and propel your character far away from any possibility of stagnancy.

The first major plot point, which occurs around the 25% mark in your story, is a bit of a

misnomer since your story may have any number of plot points within the first quarter of the story.

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