By Susan May Warren No STAKES! Your character must have something at STAKE that makes the reader care and want to read more. Authors often start with backstory or creating the storyworld instead of getting to the character’s immediate problem,
Carolyn Bolz, of Riverside, California, has a short, humorous article, “Upstaged by Santa Claus,” in the May issue of Christian Communicator. Last month she joined Toastmasters. Thanks to all the great ideas she has picked up at OCW summer conferences