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Character's backstory si the foundational element that shapes his or her identity, motivations, and actions throughout your story.

I remembered visiting a lovely tiny village on the Eastern Shore of Virginia quite a few times in early 2000. This was it! My setting!

Music has been found to prompt enhanced activity in the right hemisphere of the brain, a region associated with imagination….

Use Marcel Proust's 35 point questionnaire to develop well-rounded and complex characters for novels.

"Ing" words, also known as present participles or gerunds, are words that end in "-ing" and are used to convey continuous or ongoing actions

On of the greatest challenges for all novelists is writer’s block. If you are a writer, you probably have experienced this one time or...

Subtext in writing dialogue refers to the underlying meanings, implications, or emotions conveyed indirectly through the spoken words....

Winning Writers will award a grand prize of $10,000 in the 10th annual North Street competition for self-published and hybrid-published book

Internalization is what the character is thinking…his/her internal thoughts and feelings. Internalization adds texture and life....

dive into a most crucial aspect of storytelling: showing versus telling. It's all about using words that appeal to the five senses.

Writers fall into one of two categories: those who avoid dialogue or those who inundate with unnecessary chatter. But there's a third....