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Fatal Backstory

“She stopped and remembered her home town and how it felt to be ten years old when she moved. . .” I checked out two books-on-tape yesterday and tried to listen to them. The first one started at a certain point, then immediately went into a flashback, within the first page. Ditto for the second. [...]

Backstory’s Emotional Weight

When we invent characters, we need to know all about them, including where they grew up, childhood fears & dreams and more. Where does this information go? Where do you put all this backstory? Backstory’s Emotional Weight Two friends, writing vastly different stories, are struggling with backstory. One is adding backstory to enrich the story [...]

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