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Filter Phrases
Filter Phrases

Filter phrases subtly increase a reader’s sense of narrative or psychic distance -in other words, the extent to which they feel they are ‘one’ with a character.

Are you worried that there’s too much backstory and flashback in your novel as you write your first draft?
Are you worried that there’s too much backstory and flashback in your novel as you write your first draft?

If you’re writing a first draft of your novel and you’re worried you have too much backstory, you’re asking the right question. But there’s no need to be alarmed.

Create a Writing Practice with The Write Towards Spring Challenge
Create a Writing Practice with The Write Towards Spring Challenge

The intention of Write Towards Spring is to help us all continue or establish a near-daily writing practice, with softness and in sync with the season that we’re in: Winter. Thirty minutes a day of doing something to support your writing life; it could be learning, freewriting, plotting, reading, adding words to your draft, going on an artist's date. You could choose to create your own rules, deciding what you want to prioritize.