This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 300th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

Podcast.

I'm delving into the last big edit of Storming.

No major plot revisions, Hallelujah, but my editor suggested a lot of

great tweaks for flow between chapter endings and hooks and fleshing out character reactions a little more.

So that's my mission for the next month or so and then we're on to the final proof readings.

The book is currently scheduled for a release in early December.

Storming has been a joy from start to finish and I can't wait to share it with all of you.

So in the meantime, editing continues.

The latest post in the video series on my blog

is AMPing your story stakes, why even positive events should have consequences.

It offers another example from Jurassic Park for an easy way to instantly inject more

continuity intention in your story stakes. To find the post, visit my site at

helping writers become authors.com. And now I hope you enjoy this week's podcast entitled

whom should you be writing for yourself or

your readers whom should you be writing for it's a question all writers have to face

sooner or later usually we tend to think of the answer in terms of audiences.

Young adults, women aged 18 to 55, general adults, or supergeaks of the sort to have read every back issue comic from the

silver age.

My simplest answer to this question is always, I'm writing for readers who have my exact taste in books.

So perhaps we should be asking a slightly more specific question.

Should we be writing for ourselves or for our readers.

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