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A Protagonist with no Backstory

Can you defy convention and write a protagonist with no backstory? I started a new project to explore just that. […]

How do you maximise the midpoint at the core of your story? According to writing coach Abigail Perry, the midpoint

Embracing scene structure in story took me longer than it should. While I recognised the scene as the basic unit

Four essentials of character will inform the character’s arc or transformation: wants, needs, fears and misbeliefs. More than the simple

Mastery of plot structure isn’t about a single thread, more like three plots make one story. So says writer and

Engaging stories come out of the choices characters make. Or as Sue Brown Moore advocates, never stop asking ‘why?’ Listen

What really makes a story is the interplay between internal versus external plot. I upset some folks when I say

The next round of editing, and I encounter the return of the Crutch Words. All of those verbal ticks, habits

A revelation about my fantasy series: I’m the author as translator. Put another way, my characters don’t speak English… Listen

For me, the hardest part of writing fiction is fixing the prose that defies editing. In my head, my prose