Backstory: Not a Dirty Word

If you’ve been writing for any length of time, I’m sure you’ve heard or read warnings about backstory.  Don’t give the reader too much at once.  Beware the info dump.  Yada, yada, yada.  In fact, I’ve written two posts about the infodump problem, here and here.  And there’s a good reason for these warnings.  Too […]