How to Write a Character’s Backstory

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Knowing the history of your main character allows you to craft a character arc that keeps readers engaged from start to finish.

In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, author C.S. Lewis sends the Pevensie children to live with a professor in the English countryside to escape London and the havoc of World War 2. 

Peter, the eldest, feels he has to become the man of the house in the absence of his fathe...