Inspiration and guidance for gathering story ideas, writing story outlines, revising, and all the secrets good writers use to make their stories shine. Everything young writers need to know to improve their stories: how to start a story, suggestions to help with plot, character, voice, and setting, how to end a story, and questions to ask when the story is done to help make revisions. This guide includes practical suggestion from the author and many other writers throughout. There are chapters on the special needs of several popular genres including realistic fiction, fantasy, S/F, and historical fiction, An appendix lists guidelines for peer editing.