“Treat backstory like a pungent spice. I say this to encourage you to picture a jalapeno pepper that can set your mouth on fire, every time you even think about adding backstory into your book. What...”

“Backstory is like a flavour you cant quite pick, lurking in the layers of a curry. You know its there and it enhances the flavour, but its intangible and fleeting. Use it sparingly!”

“Delayed gratification hints that something terrible is going to happen, and then delays the resolution. Its that interval between the promise of something awful and it actually happening, where sus...”

“Suspense doesnt always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.”

“Backstory is like a flavour you can’t quite pick, lurking in the layers of a curry. You know it’s there and it enhances the flavour, but it’s intangible and fleeting. Use it sparingly!”

“And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.”

“The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love yo...”

“What Joab did not and could not know was that it was ego, and the ego of a king is just like the ego of anyone else. It is a social infection, entering each person as a psychological virus that is ...”