Editor Julia Blair walks Rebecca through what's working and what she can change about a short story she wrote. Julia helps Rebecca tighten the story and they dive into their own writing processes to compare.

Before she became a Story Grid Editor, Julia Blair worked as an archaeologist and a preservation archivist where she was occasionally caught sniffing old books in the stacks. As a developmental editor and story coach, her mission is to help aspiring novelists make the best use of their valuable writing time to craft stories that readers will remember and love. She especially loves to help writers discover the heart of their story when they feel like they’re lost in the weeds. Julia brings a deep appreciation of history and culture to the editing table. Her specialties are Historical Fiction, Fairy Tales and Myth, and Historical Fantasy. She is the author of a forthcoming Story Grid guide to the War genre, and her short story Elixir will be published in Spring 2020. These days, Julia is elbows-deep writing her fantasy novel, The Nature of Prophecy. She has written several articles for the Story Grid Fundamental Fridays series. Visit her at ragstowritten.com.

Things Julia and I mentioned in the episode: