Helping Writers Become Authors K.M. Weiland

I’ve looked before for podcasts about writing, with no success, but after buying one of K M Weiland’s books on characters I discovered her podcasts. Oh my. I now understand what those very few people who love their degrees get out of going to lectures. It’s a treat. This podcast is a treat. Listening in the car I was so excited at all the useful guidance, I wanted to listen to more, listen to them again with a pen and paper, concentrate harder, and get back to my novel to check and tweak and edit in the shining light of this golden advice! The episodes are just right in length, the guidance is intellectual, inspiring, but accessible and useful too. When you have all those positives, you’d expect a downside, likely the podcast being read aloud in a monotone, or muttered, but Ms Weiland has a lovely delivery. It’s clear, enthusiastic and charming, she clearly loves the art of storytelling and wants to help you write well and fulfil your potential. The real downside, is the change in how you view and remember books, tv and film. All of a sudden you’ll see a character arc, you’ll identify conflicts, you’ll see where a writer has taken an easy choice to fit a scene they wanted, that will now seem clumsy and out of place to you. But then you turn that critical eye on your own work for the better. As you can imagine, if you’ve read this far, I wholeheartedly recommend this podcast.

Great listening for aspiring writers.

This is a great podcast but the voice is so sped up its hard to take in. Slow down please!