This is KAMWylint and you are listening to the one hundred eighty-third episode of the wordplay podcast. I'm entering the final

third of my rewrite on the deepest breath. This is the part where all these so-called

little changes you made throughout the previous two-thirds suddenly require a bunch of loose ends to be tied up.

I liken it to running your fingers through a skein of yarn.

It all goes pretty smoothly until all the tingles snarl up at the bottom. I haven't made any major plot changes, mostly just tweaks to character arcs, but even still I'm having to pay attention to make certain everything in this all-important last act is in line with what's

come before.

The most annoying type of story conflict, the latest post in the video series on my blog, talks about a type of conflict

that works within the story, but which often causes more annoyance to readers than it's

worth.

To watch it, visit my website at

W.W. dot Helping Writers Become Authors.com. New videos are

posted every Wednesday. And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast, the seventh in the series

Structuring Your Story's Scenes. This installment is titled The Three Building

Block of the sequel.

The sequel, the second half of the scene, sometimes gets shortchanged,

but it is every bit as important as the scene since it allows characters to process

the events of the scene and figure out their next move.

The sequel is the reaction half of the action reaction pairing.

This is where introspective moments, quiet conversations, and character development occurs.

Even though we all recognize the importance of these things, authors still sometimes

end up hacking sequels out of their stories in the mistaken belief that they're bad scenes

simply because they contain no outright conflict.

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