The past six months, I have been writing a story for Frances Dowell. There are a lot of steps. We have the opening scene where you need to intrigue the reader with a lot of action so the reader will want to keep reading. The next step is you need a background check and a beginning. This part should be interesting and detailed to let the reader meet the character. Next, you have the middle. My middle was a romantic scene and a flash back. The middle scene should be continuing the beginning and maybe if you want a flash back. The last but not least the ending. You can either make it a cliff hanger, happily ever after, or even a reality ending. You should be coming to the end of your story and settling down unless you make a sequel. You also want to have a big monster problem and some obstacles for the character. I had a hard time with the big monster problem but the figured it out. We even got to meet with Frances Dowell. She has such a kind and sweet personality and here is her site if you want to learn more about writing or even just for fun.