Backstory in Your Novel: Getting It Right

Two mistakes writers make when it comes to backstory are: Putting it in chapter one Using too much at a time What is backstory? Tim Tomlinson, in The Portable MFA in Creative Writing, tells us backstory is: “…information in the story’s or character’s past, and it can be parceled out effectively in the narration as […]

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