Past, Present, and Future: Your Characters—and You—Live in All Three
The writing you do today—every day—is an amalgam of the writing you have done every other day before it, the…
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Bring Your Story to Life by Digging Beneath the Surface
If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. One morning this week I was walking…
Starting Your Story in the Right Place to Hook Readers
Story openings can be vexing—it’s tricky to give readers enough of a hook to invest them while avoiding layering in…
How to Weave in Backstory without Stalling Out Your Story
(This article originally appeared in Writer Unboxed here.) Your characters don’t just spring to life at the beginning of your…