Fatal Flaws: Why Your Story is Falling Apart & How to Fix It – by Kristen Lamb…

Kristen Lamb tells it like it is in this entertaining post no fixing your (potentially) fatally flawed story.

Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog

Recently I blogged about the log-line, how it’s an incredible diagnostic tool for spotting flaws in a story idea. The brilliance of the log-line is the simplicity. As an editor/writing coach, I can zero in on a story’s every strength and spot every flaw with a single glance at the log-line.

How? Because the log-line is a prototype (a scaled-down mod...