Throw Some Gas Grips Into Your Story

When I first started writing, a critique group leader gave me perhaps the worst writing advice out there. I was writing Finding Sarah (my first attempt and an original novel), and about all I knew was that it was supposed to be a romance. (That’s another story, since at the time, I’d never read a romance and thought I was writing a mystery.)

About all I knew at the time was that I needed to keep my hero and heroine from resolving their relationship until the end of the book, so I continued to...