Today we welcome a new third-Friday regular to the blog - Debby Harris who last visited us here . Welcome aboard, Debby!   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I’m an Honorary Lecturer for the School of English at the Scottish University of St. Andrews (a town probably better known outside of Scotland as the historic Home of Golf).  Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of providing editorial support for two Ph.D. candidates in Creative Writing.   To help them evaluate their own work during the writing process, I prepared a check-list of practical questions for fiction writers to ask themselves.  This check list has since proven so useful to me as a tool for  editorial assessment/self-assessment that it seems churlish to keep it to myself. So here it is: A)  Plot 1)  Does the work feature a strong/striking central idea around which the action of the plot revolves? 2) Is the central concept sufficiently robust  to be conveyed in 25 words or few...