It gives me great pleasure to welcome to my blog USA Today bestselling author Lois Winston. Lois, who also writes under the pen name Emma Carlyle, is an award-winning author and literary agency associate. She offers some invaluable advice on writing. Over to Lois…

I’m often asked what’s the best writing advice I ever received. Here it is: Every scene needs to serve a purpose, and the only two purposes for a scene are to advance the plot or tell the reader something she needs to know about the...