How does helping others help us reach our own writing goals? Eldred Bird looks at some of the benefits we reap by helping other authors.

Dives into characters’ goals, motivations, wants, needs, and objects of desires. Look at sympathy and empathy and why they matter in storytelling.

Without a solid foundation upon which to build a plot, a story is liable to fall apart.
Use the through-line and other ideas to take an idea to story concept.

As hard as they are to receive, critiques are a necessary element to your growth as a writer. Follow Diana Stout's advice for using critiques in writing.

As Jenn Windrow read, she dreamed of my own worlds. Dabbled at trying to write them down. She needed to write. It had become an obsession.