Documents tagged with backstory

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Steel Horse

The short story of how World War 3 was fought on American soil and what happened to the people there
  • MaverikKnight published this 12 / 10 / 2009
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9 Ways to Strengthen Your Beginnings

Unfortunately for us harried writers no surefire pattern exists for the perfect opening. However, most good beginnings do share a couple traits. Following are nine.
  • KM Weiland published this 09 / 13 / 2009
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Backstory: The Importance of What Isn't Seen

When Ernest Hemingway spoke about the dignity of an iceberg being "due to only one-eighth of it being above water," he was speaking about the importance of the part of the story that isn't told. T...
  • KM Weiland published this 08 / 16 / 2009
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Splash

This is the backstory of the character Ashley Blyze in my story Ripple. There are A LOT of errors (grammatical and spelling) because this is a rough, rough draft and I only posted it here in case p...
  • Sum1Else published this 01 / 22 / 2009
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The Three Elements of Character

Key relationships in the life of a character are not necessarily those associations a character holds with her, or his family members. A key relationship may not even involve interactions between ...
  • neptuneauteur published this 02 / 15 / 2008
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