Do you glaze over when friends start talking about storytelling? Should storytelling ever be this confusing? Have you noticed the trend towards storytelling on Facebook? There must be a great clamour for details appertaining to this. The purpose of making this feature was to assist open peoples understanding about the …

Flashing forward — that is, jumping the time frame of the story — can work a number of wonderful effects on a manuscript. One, it can take the writer out of the anxiety of figuring out what comes next in the course of events. Instead, the question becomes What is the later …