This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 38th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

I finished off my second round of edits for my historical superhero work in progress

wafer right on schedule at the end of December.

I'm crazy happy with how it's coming together.

My last round of critique partners and beta readers had some awesome suggestions

for tweaking a few things. And I feel like the whole story is

singing in harmony. It's gone on to the second round of readers so we'll see what

they have to say. In the meantime I can put it on the back burner for a few months. I hope to see

it published in 2018 which gives me plenty of time to finish up its edits and between

working on the outline and soon the first draft for my portal fantasy sequel Dreambreaker.

The latest post on my blog is the top writing posts of 2016, in which I talk about the

ups and downs of my year, including the top 10 most popular

posts, and a few of my personal favorites as well.

To read the post, visit my site at helping writers Become Authors.com.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled Top Ten Ways to

Rivet Readers with Plot Reveals.

Today I'm going to show you how to make stuff happen in your story.

D. Right? What could be easier? You put characters on the page, they dance around, stuff happens. Mission accomplished.

Except if you're not using plot reveals to execute all this happening stuff,

your readers may end up bored anyway.

So what are plot reveals?

Whenever new information is unveiled in your story, you've created a plot reveal.

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