It’s time for another one of my guest posts over at Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi’sWriters Helping Writerssite. As one of their Resident Writing Coaches, I’ve previously shared:

• insights on how to approach an overwhelming revision
• how to increase the stakes (the consequences for failure) in our story
• 7 ways to indicate time passage in our stories (and 2 issues to watch out for)
• how to translate story beats to any genre
• how and why we should avoid episodic writing
• how to find and fix unintended themes
• how “plot” holes can sneak into our characters and worldbuilding
• how TV shows can help us learn to hook our readers
• what we can learn from stories that successfully break the rules

With this turn for another coaching article at WHW, I’m taking a look at one of the problems we encounter withmajor revisions. We often have to rip…