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Focused Backstory
Learn how to write characters readers will love. Has an industry professional told you not to dump character history at the beginning of your story? If so, you aren't alone. But what's the solution to this common advice? Most writers take the time to design interesting characters with troubled pasts. They long for readers to care about the characters' lives. However, the sad truth is on page one, readers don't care--yet. That's why industry gurus tell writers to stop overusing character history, also called backstory, at the beginning of stories.Have you ever wondered...How to use backstory correctly?What are the ways other writers successfully incorporate backstory into their work?Do tools ...
The Good Shadows
She believed him when he told her some Shadows were good.When sixteen-year-old Violet Blackstone seeks to belong outside of her Christian community, she opens doors to a dark world she doesn't understand. Her parents' secret separation and conflict at church fuel her desire to find something more. She sneaks out to a party at Chuckanut House and meets Dakota Selby, the mysterious new guy at Bellingham High School who reads her tarot cards and tells her she doesn't belong. When she discovers his family owns Chuckanut House, she plans to hold her parents' twenty-fifth wedding anniversary party there to reunite them in the beautiful mansion surrounded by forest and ocean-and to spend more time ...
Gunnysack Hell
It's the summer of 1962, middle of the Cold War, and the O'Brien family has moved off-grid to the Mojave Desert in Southern California. After all, the desert has to be a safer place to raise a family than the crime-ridden city, and there they can build a new future. But evil also stalks dusty desert roads, and eight-year-old Nonni finds herself harboring a terrible secret: Only she can identify the predator who has been terrorizing the community. And he knows where she lives.
The Dark Shadows
The second full-length novel in The Good Shadows series.First love can be dangerous.Seventeen-year-old Violet Blackstone is in love, but everyone seems to think she's making a cosmic mistake. "You don't know him the way I do," she tells her friends and family. But the moment she accepts a promise ring from Dakota, she must fight harder to protect her relationship.Dakota's ex-girlfriend returns to town, a coven member makes threats, and Owen Parker tries to prove Dakota isn't what he seems. The closer Violet gets to Dakota, the more she sees his dark side and the terrifying Shadows she thought she'd never encounter again.Can she fight the forces seeking to destroy her relationship and life?Should she be with a Christian guy like Owen Parker instead?Violet leans on her faith to keep going, but the dangerous forces grow stronger every day.Other titles in this series...Ghost of a Girl, the first noveletteThe Good Shadows, book oneComing soon...Dream of a Girl, the second noveletteFading Shadows, book threeSpirit of a Girl, the third novelette
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Children Tell Stories
"Presents concrete methods of incorporating storytelling by students of all ages into classroom practice to help teachers meet U.S. education standards of reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and visually representing"--Provided by publisher.
