text: Hi guys! I wanted to ask this question in the Roundtable. But I'm not an admin or anything. Anywho, I think it's an interesting question which could really help a lot of us. I have maybe five or six short stories that I really love. I love the stories and the characters and the idea at the bottom. BUT, great writing comes from rewriting. And as much as I love my stories, they still read a lot like amateurish first drafts. What are some things I could do upon rewriting, which could lift the stories further once the actual story is in place? I have the A-B-C all mapped out. This happens, then this, then this. I can distill it down to the necessities. Not bothering the reader with superfluous details and so forth. But what are some things I can do to enhance the skeleton of that story? For example: let's say the story is about a characters sexual shame. Let's say a woman meets a man at a club. They go home together, it's her first time and she likes it. She feels shameful because she's a Christian. Kills him the next day to hide the fact that she had sex outside of marriage. Obviously she has a screw loose, but just to have an example.