August 12, 2010
Definition of back-story nicked from Wikipedia: “A back-story is the literary device of a narrative chronologically earlier than, and related to, a narrative of primary interest. Generally it is the history of characters or other elements that underlie the situation existing at the main narrative’s start.” Back-story is different from a flash-back in that a [...]
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July 24, 2010
Saturday 31st July & Sunday 1st August 2010 (10am-4pm) There are a few places left in my ‘Write a Page-Turner’ workshop running in the last weekend of July at the NSW Writers Centre. This workshop will give you both the tools and the motivation to get started on that novel you’ve been promising yourself you’ll [...]
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