This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 289th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

Podcast. I've finished my big edit on my historical barnstorming kind of

sort of easel punk story storming and I'm now doing one last

clean up pass to get it ready to go on to my editor in May. For Big Edits I always

like working on the computer. I work more quickly because I don't have to spend extra time interpreting and

transcribing my corrections. Plus I like using the same process, typing on the computer as I do in first drafts, since it puts me in a writing frame of mind rather than a tweaking frame of mind.

But when it comes time for cleanup edits, tweaking edits, I just need a printed page in front of me.

When I want to focus on each word, I need to be able to look at it in the solidity of the page rather than letting it roll around on screen with

the twitch of my mouse.

So I printed off the manuscript and am spending my afternoons with red pin in hand.

The latest post in the video series on my blog

is show what your character is feeling and thinking.

And do it like a writer, not a director.

It offers some thoughts on less than effective techniques you might be using to show

what your character is feeling and thinking,

and how to avoid falling into the pitfalls of our

movie-saturated culture. To find the post, visit my website at helping writers become authors. And now I hope you enjoyed this week's

podcast entitled Want Readers to Adore your book,

learn how to ace your climactic moment. Your story will contain many important moments.

Actually we could say with accuracy that every moment in your story is important since any misstep could conceivably jar the whole line of dominoes out of sync.

But the moment in your story is the climactic moment.

This moment is the reason your story is even being told in the first place.

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