Each week, a CWILL BC member offers a tip about writing or illustrating, the creative process, or getting published.
This week’s tip comes from writer Ellen Schwartz.
Ellen’s tip:
Don’t get preoccupied with expressing a moral or lesson. Every story has a moral or lesson, but the good ones disguise it within the story. Let the story do the work.
The CWILL BC Society blog 
Ellen, How right you are. It’s only after I’ve read one of my own stories for the tenth time that I discover ‘lessons,’ that found their way in without my knowing it. It’s a bit like those characters that start doing things you never intended, and plots that take a different path from the one you first planned.
Thanks for the reminder!