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Bringing in the back-story

May 8, 2011 A. B. Westrick Leave a comment

For a few years, I’ve had the privilege of serving as a primary-level reader/judge for James River Writers’ Best Unpublished…

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Filed under: back-story, character, contest, hook, manuscript, protagonist, revision, structure, writing

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