Often in classes and workshops, everyone finishes your story just to be polite. In real life, though, your readers may not finish reading what you’ve written unless a certain amount of urgency and even momentum are part of the story. Novelist and short-story writer Charles Baxter discusses how to make these elements part of your story’s plot, prompting readers to become engrossed with-and even finish!-your story. Fiction writer and new Hugo writer-in-residence Joan Leegant moderates the Q&A.