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  • Throwback Thursday: Fiction- Reality Refined

    Throwback Thursday: Fiction- Reality Refined

    There are two kinds of story in this world. Those that are not at all true to life and therefore are completely unsatisfactory, and those…

  • Spotlight: Anachronist by Andrew Hastie

    Spotlight: Anachronist by Andrew Hastie

    One step away from prison, 17-year-old Joshua Jones steals a WW2 medal from the house of a local eccentric, the Colonel, and finds himself transported…

  • Monday Motivation

    Sometimes the ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come.

  • A Protagonist’s Anatomy #2: Backstory

    A Protagonist’s Anatomy #2: Backstory

    Put simply, a backstory is everything that happened to your protagonist before the events of your actual novel. More precisely, however, a backstory is whatever…