Writing lessons to take away from "A Christmas Carol"

This time of year, we feel like a broken record — can we possibly go a few posts without mentioning A Christmas Carol and Charles Dickens?

Today is not that day, but given that it’s such a classic, it behooves us to see what lessons can be learned from the story’s enduring success.

Writer’s Digest editor Robert Lee Brewer took that approach in his most recent re-reading of it, coming up with five lessons writers should take from A Christmas Carol.

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