The Most Important Question in Storytelling: “Why?”

Last time, editor Naomi Hughes joined us to share the three most common storytelling issues she sees. I chimed in at the end of her post to add a bonus fourth issue.

A common problem I see—even in traditionally published books—is Missing Motivations. I promised to dig into this issue in a future post, and today is as good of a day as any, so let’s see what we can discover. *smile*

The Basis of Storytelling is the Question “Why?”

We’ve probably heard that many authors come up with their story...