This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 266th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

I've been experimenting lately with the capabilities of Scrivener to produce quality e-books.

In years past, I've always hired professionals to code all my books,

but one of the frustrations of that method is that I can't make simple little changes to any of the published books

without going through someone else.

I've gotten tired of that over the years and I'm sure my e-book pros have gotten

tired of me always bugging them so I've been hunting for a relatively easy way

to produce e-books without the middleman.

Scrivener definitely seems to be that way.

It took me a little trial and error to figure it out, especially since I'm relatively new to the program. But all in all,

it's a breeze, even on a PC. I've only encountered one or two minor things. The Mac version

offers that the PC doesn't. So kudos to Scrivener for yet another

Uber helpful tool.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled

Why Your Character's Goal

needs to be one of these five things.

Every story comes down to just one thing.

Know what it is?

Conflicts is a good guess, no conflict, no story and all that.

But before a story can offer conflict, it has to first offer something else.

Desire.

In short, story is always going to be about a character's goal.

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