Writers can (and should) look for craft lessons everywhere

Ideas for your fiction are floating around everywhere — which is something most authors have already been told or realized.

But they might not have given thought to the abundance of craft lessons just waiting to be examined.

Moriah Richard, the managing editor of Writer's Digest, encourages her fellow writers to think about skillfully done TV shows, movies, even podcasts and how they can incorporate the same techniques in their work.

Richard offers several questions about the characters, plot, and setting that a writer might benefit from posing in her post for WD.

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