Every good story hides under a veil

Imagine you're throwing a veil over your story, and everything—EVERYTHING—becomes hidden under that veil. That's what the reader will be excited to pull back, to see what's underneath.

You can do a simple exercise. Take one page of your writing and re-write it as if it were hidden under a veil. 

How? By hiding each sentence underneath another, by hiding each line of dialogue underneath another.

For example: 

They sat down to eat dinner.
"I'm worried about our son," she said. "He's gotten into ye...