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Craft Using Backstory to Enhance Your Novel with Cynthia Owens
In Using Backstory to Enhance Your Novel, students will examine how to use backstory effectively to enhance their stories using elements of a character’s past. We will cover: What is Backstory? Flashbacks and How to Use Them, The Five Ws of Backstory—Who, What, Where, When and Why—of a...- Cynthia Owens
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Craft Show Don’t Tell: The Writer’s Golden Rule with Cynthia Owens
Show Don’t Tell: The Writer’s Golden Rule looks at different techniques of putting your readers into your story, and how to use them. We will cover: Show vs. Tell?—Examines the difference between telling a story and showing it. The Five Senses—How to use the senses effectively. Action!—Using...- Cynthia Owens
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Craft Writing Killer Plot Twists with Cynthia Owens
As readers, we all love to get into a good book with great characters and an engrossing plot line. We also like to guess what’s going to happen. But what we love most of all are those moments when you’re bowled over by some totally unexpected that you didn’t see coming, yet when you read it, it...- Cynthia Owens
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Craft The Captive Audience: Writing a Series with Cynthia Owens
There’s a meme going around Facebook that said: “Happiness is finishing a great book, and finding out it’s part of a series.” I think that’s true. Everyone love to read series. Revisiting familiar characters is like spending time with old friends. In A Captive Audience: Writing a Series, we...- Cynthia Owens
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