J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Wicked: For Good director Jon M. Chu teases that the sequel will feature a never-before-seen flashback of baby Glinda. This is a change from the Wicked stage musical, where there are no such ...

Backstory is a fundamental aspect of character development and storytelling in general. Sometimes you need flashbacks to convey backstory, and that can be totally okay—even integral to a particular ...