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Story world Story world, quite simply, is the world your story takes place in. In Star Wars, it’s a galaxy far, far way. In my book, Coming Home, it’s 1881 Oregon. It can be as complex as an invented world or as simple as the street blocks between home and school. But a different story world will create a different… Read More
I’m going to say something you probably haven’t heard in writing classes before. Backstory is absolutely necessary to your book. But if done badly, it can ruin your book and keep your readers from ever reading past the first few pages. What is backstory? Backstory is everything that has happened to your characters before they appear in your book. You… Read More
Every good story begins with a character your reader wants to follow. You can have the most interesting plot, but if we as readers don’t care about your character, we won’t care about what happens to her, no matter how exciting or heart wrenching. So how do you develop compelling characters? The answer to that is longer than one blog… Read More
Jennifer Crosswhite is owner and proprietor of Tandem Services, a publishing services company that empowers authors to improve their craft, develop their writing careers, find community, and create effective Read More…