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What’s the Point of Your Story?

Seriously, it’s so often not clear. Here’s a guide to making your point.

Robert Roy Britt
The Writer’s Guide
5 min readDec 1, 2023

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It shouldn’t surprise any writer to hear that a story has to have a point. But so often we go off the rails during the course of writing and end up with a menagerie of ideas that can leave an editor scratching her head, trying to figure out what the point is. (That assumes you have an editor. If not, then it’s the reader you inflict your meanderings on.)

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Robert Roy Britt
The Writer’s Guide

Editor of Aha! and Wise & Well on Medium + the Writer's Guide at writersguide.substack.com. Author of Make Sleep Your Superpower: amazon.com/dp/B0BJBYFQCB