Episode 5: Finding the Why of Your Story

A new podcast for writers

Sandra O'Donnell, Ph.D.
5 min readApr 15, 2019

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Whether you are writing literary fiction or historical fiction, police procedurals or YA, before readers will fully invest in your story — to get them past those crucial first fifteen pages — you need to show the reader WHY. This week, we discuss how you find the WHY of your story and how the why becomes the basis for your inciting incident. Jump over…

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Sandra O'Donnell, Ph.D.

Writing about life, death and everything In between. Reader of history, memoirs, and the stars. Looking for answers to life’s deeper questions.