Author and story coach Larry Brooks has often written about the importance of having a vision for your story. Some writers struggle to articulate this, but I agree with him that in order to truly reach your story’s full potential, you need to know what your vision for it is. What do you hope to accomplish with it? What will “success” look like for this story? The good news is thatyou get to define this. No one else ever could because guess what? It’syour story. No one else’s.

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