Ask “And so?” of everything. And so, why does my reader need to know this? And so, how does this move the story forward? And so, what will happen as a result? In other words: What. Is. The. Point? Harsh as it sounds, this question is your most stalwart friend; it will never pull punches, and it will often reward you with a revelatory, story-specific insight that you’d never have gotten to otherwise.
