This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 410th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

Podcast.

Well, I've been a bad writer this week, not a lick of writing.

Remember how I told you a few weeks back that I was painting my desk?

Well, I've been discombobulated ever since.

The desk turned out totally gorgeous, while also being a poster child for why it's dumb to paint

permanent furniture. It's not going to last for the long run, but for now it's lovely. Problem is I haven't gotten myself moved into it. I'm still

typing away on a little cardboard table with the monitor wriggling like it's in

an earthquake while I finished painting some windows and installing new blinds and curtains.

So this week the pile of misplaced papers and other odds and ends keeps growing on the card

table while I wait until I have a chance to move everything back to the desk.

And in the meantime, writing just has and it.

It was kind of a nice break for the first couple of days, but now it's turning into that old itch that needs

scratched. With one thing in another, next week is looking like it may not be

much better than this week, but here's hoping I squeeze in at least a few hours here and there.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast, Tips for how to choose the right sentences.

What is writing but choosing the right words in the right sentences in the right paragraphs,

in the right pages, in the right chapters.

But even though words and sentences are the smallest of integers within our

storytelling, they're actually one of the most complex.

How do you choose the right sentences? Is it a process with a rhyme and reason? How can

something so small and instinctive be guided by conscious decisions. How can you learn to choose the right

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