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, CA, had a humorous article and a poem in the Summer 2013 issue of the ST Quarterly. The winter 2014 issue of ST Quarterly includes a short article, a poem, and an acrostic Carolyn wrote. She