A “B Story” is a secondary plotline that unfolds, more or less, alongside the “A Story,” the primary plotline. Lately, I’ve been thinking about B Stories more and wishing there were more resources on them. So I decided to help out by putting together this article on the six key qualities a B Story should have–things I wished I’d understood earlier in my writing journey.

But first, we need to make our usual pit stop to talk about definitions–because (somewhat ironically) these tend to be a little ambiguous in the writing community.

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