Taking a Tip from Stephen King — Let Your Spouse Be Your Alpha Reader

My guest today, writer Z. D. Robinson, makes the claim that he lets his wife have the last say on his drafts, and she's never steered him wrong. I was skeptical at first, and asked him to explain how it works. As soon as I learned where he got the idea, I became a true believer.

When I decided to start seriously writing the story in my head, the story that would later become my debut novel, I grabbed a couple books on fiction writing. Many of those books are too pretentious to be taken...