The beating heart of your story Over the next eight weeks I’m going to be talking about how you can master the elements of story that make readers care. It’s not a course – although it is based on the remarks I made at our annual Stow-on-the-Wold writing workshop – but it is a guide that I hope you’ll find useful. This week on the water Here goes… Let me start with a simple observation that might transform how you approach your next story: every compelling narrative has an emotional question...