Over a week ago, I wrote a post about figuring out what your specialty is as a writer—realizing what you're especially good at writing and then writing it.

But I think it's also helpful to be able to look at our story with enough objectivity to determine the strengths within a manuscript, too. That requires us to narrow it down even a little farther than our general strengths.

I know that my characters are my strengths.

But which characters are strongest?

Early in a manuscript, I ...