Don’t Ask Questions in Your Stories

Your job is to answer questions, not pose them. Can you guess the 3 reasons why this is so important?

As an editor of nonfiction health and science articles, I see some of the same mistakes and shortcomings over and over. We all commit them (as you’ll see below) so I’m not being haughty. Lately, for whatever reason, one of my big pet peeves has been cropping up a lot in drafts I work on. Call it a faux pas, a writerly crutch, a rookie mistake, whatever.…