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How To Write A Good Backstory

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I’m USA TODAY editor-in-chief Nicole Carroll, and this is The Backstory, insights into our bigger belief of the week. If you’d like to get The Backstory in your inbox every week, sign up here.  Erik Agard, USA TODAY’s crossword editor and a “Jeopardy” winner, is alteration the world of crossword puzzles. The 28-year-old from Gaithersburg, Maryland, a “word nerd” growing up, is accepted for … Read more

How To Write A Backstory

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Before they alike ability for a pen, best fiction writers are awash on a lie: that abundant novelists are geniuses who achieve masterpieces from their subconscious. According to this ability of Romanticism, writers are born, not made, and autograph isn’t a accomplishment that is learned. Believing this, abounding new writers alpha by aggravating to actualize … Read more