This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 260 second episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

Podcast. I announced on Facebook and Twitter this week that I've got a special secret project in the works.

Some of you guessed that I'd be starting a Moose Ranch or maybe giving away a $1 million

prize.

I'm sad to say neither of these are quite in the

ballpark and I can't give you any other clues other than it's something that's a big

fat present to all of you word players and something I think will turn out to be an

awesome resource for all of us. That's all I can say for now, but I hope you able to share it with you all

soon.

The latest post in the video series on my blog is the positively wrong way to write a smart character.

It offers examples from Kenneth Bragh's Jack Ryan Shadow Recruit to explain a common

pitfall among authors who are trying to portray a smart character.

To find the post, visit my site at helping writers become authors.com.

And now I hope you enjoy this week's podcast entitled, What If Your Story Has No Character

Arc? What if your story has no character? Can you write a story with no character?

Is that even possible?

And if it is, well the story be doomed to drabness in comparison with those that do feature rich character

arcs of the positive flat and negative varieties.

These are questions I encounter frequently,

and they're absolutely valid.

We have to think character arc and story

are synonymous, but then we go looking for the arks in favorite stories by trying to find the

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