Helping Writers Become Authors

Explore the art of backstory drip and discover how to intricately weave character history into your narrative. Learn practical strategies for revealing backstory with perfect timing and motivation. Delve into the vital role backstory plays in enriching your plot, using tools like flashbacks and prologues. The discussion emphasizes audience engagement and the importance of context, ensuring your storytelling resonates deeply.

Backstory techniques are crucial to the success of any story. Backstory-as-story and alternating timelines are two possible approaches.

Learn how to use four specific backstory techniques to share character histories with your audience, starting with prologues and flashbacks.

When "good writing" strikes its steel upon the flint of archetypes, there is a sudden unity of truth between author and reader.

Learn how organic themes arise from plot (and vice versa) and specifically how to recognize five important elements of an organic theme.

Learning how to write literary fiction can be helpful not only in writing the genre itself, but in raising the vibration on any type of story.

Learning how to write mystery stories involves the most impressive trick of all: outsmarting readers while still playing fair with the clues.

Learning how to write historical fiction requires the skills to a well-drawn story, with the added responsibility of evoking times gone by.

Learning how to write romance requires both strong technique and the courage to write vulnerably about this integral part of life.

Fantasy combines imagination and innovation with deep roots in archetype and myth. Here are five tips for how to write fantasy.