#BackStory

Jonathan TaylorJonathanTaylor19
2026-01-03

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Because I wasn't done with done with this book series, apparently

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2025-11-16

Two Craft-Boosting Black Friday Deals for Writers

The best thing about Black Friday sales is how writers can put themselves first, picking up affordable resources that will make a huge impact on their writing success. I love that! Every year, we offer discounts so your dollars go further, and this year is no exception. What is…
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#Backstory #CharacterArc #CharacterTraits #CharacterWound #Characters

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2025-10-21

How To Use Dialogue for Backstory and Worldbuilding—Infodump-Free!

It’s an ongoing struggle for many of us: How do I share backstory and build my world without infodumping (and boring my readers)? One of my favorite—and sometimes overlooked—tools is dialogue! Using dialogue—and the beats that go along with…
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#Backstory #Dialogue #Flashbacks #MoodandAtmosphere #ResidentWritingCoach

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2025-10-10

The Elusive “I” in Identity

For whatever reason, I’ve come across a number of articles lately addressing the issue of personal identity from a variety of perspectives. Since one of fiction’s chief purposes is to explore who we are, why we’re here, and what we should do, I’ve found some of these articles fascinating. And perplexing.
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#Backstory #CRAFT #REALWORLD #UnConference #Writinglife

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2025-09-09

How to Differentiate Stories from AI Slop

Use Context to Deepen Our Writing From AI Slop For as long as I’ve been a writer, I’ve heard the advice, “Only write if you can’t not write.” The idea behind that tough-love guidance is that writing can be ridiculously hard work, publishing can be even harder, and that most published…
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#AI #Backstory #CharacterWound #Characters #Emotion
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Wild Flint BooksWildFlintBooks
2025-08-19

🔍 "How did this character's journey begin?" Find answers to this question and more in our Ember Archive prequel stories! Exclusive to subscribers. ✨ wildflintbooks.com/ember-archi

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2025-08-13

"You can't read an elephant's face." - AMY WOOD, Pet Friendly, BackStory

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2025-08-09

"In 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts, Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders became the first people to orbit the moon." - BRIAN BALOGH, Moon, Man, and Myths, BackStory

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2025-08-06

"They saw it as a violation of hospitality." - NANCY METZ, Great, Small and Other Expectations, BackStory

foxandthistle.studiogriefNgravy
2025-08-01

'Digitus Impudicus' from the Sturgeon Moon Cycle issue of The Liminal—tracing the middle finger’s rebellious roots from Roman gladiators to medieval archers, now a quiet protest with a scrunchie twist!

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An image titled "Digitus Impudicus" featuring a medieval illustration of Welsh archers practicing archery from the Luttrell Psalter, England, c. 1235, with one archer raising a hand. Text explains the middle finger gesture’s origins in ancient Rome, used by soldiers and gladiators to insult, and its evolution in medieval France where French soldiers severed English longbowmen’s fingers, prompting defiant archers to raise remaining fingers. A modern photo of a woman with a scrunchie in her hair accompanies text describing the gesture as a symbol of defiance and quiet protest in today’s schoolyard scuffles or roadside brawls.
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2025-07-30

Do’s and Don’ts for Using Backstory (in Fiction Writing)

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#Craft #backstory
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2025-05-13

Write a 5-Star Book 2

When I set out to write Book 2 in my Fountain series, I made the common mistake of thinking it would be easier than the first one, which took me more than four years to write. After all, I’d already created the world and gotten to know my characters inside and out. I knew what […]…
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#Backstory #ResidentWritingCoach #Series #Worldbuilding #WritingCraft
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2025-05-09

Workshop: How to Write Compelling Inner Conflict with Angela Ackerman

Ready to dive into your character’s internal struggle and put all that incredible gut-twisting conflict on the page? If so, don’t miss this upcoming Zoom workshop on Saturday, May 24th, 11 AM Eastern Time. Inner…
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#Backstory #CharacterArc #Characters #Conflict #ConflictThesaurusGuide
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Jinji the GengarJinji@donphan.social
2025-04-17

Heh, has it really taken this long for #Jinji and #Aadvay to finally formerly introduce themselves to each other?!?

Yes, that's right friends! The fifth page of Doppelganger is now live on the Jinji the Gengar website, and on Cat's DeviantArt!

jinji.gamescodex.net/doppelgan

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...Or you can just click on the image below 😅

#backstory #collaboration #collab #deviantart #intro #introducing #introduction #OC #story #Gengar #Jinjiverse #comic #doppelganger #Pokemon

Jinji carefully tries to defuse tensions and show that he has friendly intent. As he reaches his hand out to greet the other Gengar, Aadvay decides against his original idea of picking up and throwing his paint in self-defence, and instead responds in kind. Finally, five whole pages into the story, Jinji and Aadvay finally make formal introductions to one another! But, as they go to shake hands, Aadvay becomes embarrassed as he realizes his hand is still coated in paint. Not wanting to dirty his new friend, the two stand awkwardly, trying to find a good way to proceed with one another. Then Aadvay notices Jinji's Dusk Ball pendant, and is instantly transfixed…
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2025-03-24

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