Instead of arriving with instruction, a story behaves more like people--no instruction booklet. Sarah Sally Hamer shares her search for the story's soul.

Susan Watts shares several discoveries that completely changed the way she revises emotional scenes, making the scenes stronger.

Revision is a holistic view of your work, not the fine details of editing. Here's some suggestions to keep writing when temptation to revise is too great.

As writers, we’ve been conditioned to think of our entire future as dependent upon the success of our books. What a nasty little trap.

Any great protagonist, we know, needs SOME kind of a quest. Because people who are content just to sit on their porch can get dull after a few such chapters.