This is K.M. Lylend. and you are listening to the 249th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast.

These days I'm dividing my time between getting ready to launch, Jane Eyre, the Writers

Digest Annotated Classic, burying myself in some delightful Regency

England research for Wayfarer and editing Storming. Plus, I'm trying to soak up as much of this summer sunshine as I can.

It's no secret that summer is my favorite season, but all the candleizing beauties outside

do make it hard to keep the old nose to the grindstone sometimes.

In other news, I got to share a fun new video feature called Ten Things Writers Can Learn

from Jane Eyre, which of course features lessons I gleaned in writing

Jane Eyre, The Writers Digest, Annotated Classic.

You can watch the video on my site at Helping Writers Become Authors.com. The book will launch on August 1st.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled Why Every Story You write is a guaranteed failure.

Why is depression so often associated with writers?

I mean, seriously, it's become a more of a joke how many classic

authors were alcoholics and committed suicide. But it's really no joke. Very few of

you are going to escape those bouts of frustrated depression in which you're sure every story you write is a

guaranteed failure.

You know how it goes.

One minute you're flying high and having fun.

Your story is a delight. your characters are your best friends, the words

are zipping from your fingers to your keyboard and into immortality. With everything

in you, you genuinely believe agents, editors, and readers are going to eat this thing up.

Then you come back to the story to read it a few weeks later, perhaps after someone has gently suggested some improvements,

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