https://writersinthestormblog.com A Blog On Writing Mon, 31 Aug 2026 01:40:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://writersinthestormblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WITS-Logo-150x150.jpg https://writersinthestormblog.com 32 32 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2026/09/the-soul-of-a-story-and-the-places-it-hides/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2026/09/the-soul-of-a-story-and-the-places-it-hides/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:01:00 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=57708 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.

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