https://writersinthestormblog.com A Blog On Writing Tue, 04 Feb 2025 04:40:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://writersinthestormblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WITS-Logo-150x150.jpg https://writersinthestormblog.com 32 32 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/03/keeping-a-secret-great-backstory-technique/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/03/keeping-a-secret-great-backstory-technique/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:00:01 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=18476 Readers are smart. Smarter than we authors give them credit for. They get where we’re going way before we think they do. I think that’s why it’s so hard to give them an ending that will shock them. I mean, think of the books you've read. How often have you been truly stunned by a […]

The post Keeping a Secret - A Great Backstory Technique first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/03/keeping-a-secret-great-backstory-technique/feed/ 60 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2011/12/what-make-a-cozy-mystery-cozy/ Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:30:08 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=3671 by Linda O. Johnston I’m delighted to be back for another guest blog on Writers in the Storm.  Once again, I’m blogging about cozy mysteries. Do you know what makes a cozy mystery "cozy?" Well, they all star amateur sleuths, for one thing.  There are a lot of Jessica Fletcher types of characters out there who just […]

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