This is K.M. Wyland and you were listening to the 261st episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast. As some of you may know, I'm not generally a big fan of winter.

The cold and the dark don't usually combine to make me the

happiest of campers. I've learned from past experiences not to start writing a first draft in the middle of winter.

Since those first 50 pages are usually the toughest, and combined with the cold, I can get

downright grumpy. But it looks like I'm headed toward a first of the year first draft for Wayfair.

I overdid it on my research, even though it's the most fun I've ever had researching.

So I'm estimating I won't finish. even though it's the most fun I've ever had researching.

So I'm estimating I won't finish with the research

until the end of the year,

which means I'll be starting my next first draft

in the middle of winter. So brace yourselves, Katie, might get crumpy.

The latest post in the video series on my blog is the amazing and simple

three-step plan for learning how to write. It answers a question I've been getting from

multiple sources about how, yours when about learning to write.

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

And now I hope you enjoy this week's podcast entitled You've been writing sentences wrong all your life.

Find out why.

The sentence. It's the building block of all books. Without it, we may have a poem, a song, a movie, a painting, an interpretive dance, but we sure a scuttle that don't have a book.

Most of us learn how to write and diagram sentences in grade school.

So out of the many potential pitfalls of writing a story,

surely the simple sentence isn't likely to be one of them.

But what if I said you've been writing sentences wrong all your life.

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