Five Common Storycrafting and Wordsmithing Mistakes and How to Fix Them! by Susan May Warren Five Common Storycrafting and Wordsmithing Mistakes and How to Fix Them! by Susan May Warren Five Common Storycrafting and Wordsmithing Mistakes and How to Fix Them! by Susan May WarrenBy 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,