Skills in focus:
Learning to spell makes it far easier to write with ease.
Learn to spell well:
Read, and read widely!
Use the new words you discover when you read.
Learn your roots.
Latin and Greek
French
Germanic
Notice phonemes in words and memorize their corresponding menu of spelling options.
Great fiction stories feature a main character and a main villain
The main character has a BIG PROBLEM that they will solve over the course of the story.
Your main villain is interesting to your reader because they want the same thing as your main character, which puts them in direct conflict with each other.
Readers love conflict!