With the modern tendency of interchanging, or interposing the meanings of, different words it may help to first consider various definitions of backstory. ‘A history or background created for a fictional character in a film or television programme.’ (Unknown) ‘A story that tells what led up to the man story or plot (as of a … More The Purpose of Backstories
Of course, it may be authors reading this will already have thought about writing short stories, nevertheless, there remain many who do not or have never considered the idea. This article will consider some of the benefits of the short story form. To prevent this becoming too unwieldy we will launch straight in. The following … More Why Authors Should Consider Short Stories
The following text is based upon a guest post contributed by T. R. Robinson to the Library of Erana blog. Just to clarify: Character interviews are interviews with the primarily fictional protagonists and characters in a story. Of course, these may also be conducted with ‘real’ characters but where a book has … More Character Interviews
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