Whether your plotlines must be prefect before you begin a story or you’re a seat-of-your-pants pantser, all writers can reflect on their past year.

Every story has a beating heart, a vision that keeps all the working parts focused on what really matters. How can you be sure yours has one?

Laurie Schnebly Campbell compares how you entice trick-or-treaters or turn them away from your house to the opening of your book.

Stefan Emunds discusses the psychology writers need to know and apply to storytelling in the second article of the series Storytelling and Psychology.

Lynette M. Burrows discusses how to hook your readers by making your story's character voices work together like the instruments in an orchestra.