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How to share your backstory without info dumps. When you’re writing about fantastic worlds, it’s key to explain to the reader how your world works. But readers don’t want to read info dumps that stop the story movement. Find out ways to share backstory that won’t stop the action.
How to decide...
Develop your characters and create backstory using emotional wounds and inner conflicts.
What motivates your character?
What are the traumas that might be inspiring them to take certain actions?
How to determine what wounds make sense for your characters and your story
Raise the stakes in your...
In Those Who Forget History: Using Backstory to Enhance Your Novel, students will examine how to use backstory effectively to enhance their stories using elements of a character’s past.
We will cover:
· What is Backstory?
· Flashbacks and how to use them.
· The Five Ws of...
Writers love backstory! We need backstory. It’s pain and motivation and the unique angles that make our characters sing and howl at the moon. It’s the whys and hows. It explains everything.
Unfortunately, it can also kill story.
Backstory can be deployed. Done right, it’s a weapon in our...
When it comes to writing mysteries, there are probably far more that fall under the umbrella of being a series than there are those that are standalone titles. A series, after all, can suck readers into your fictional world and keep them coming back for more and more and more.
But writing a...
L.C. will show you how to create characters that live in the readers’ mind long after finishing your novel. The workshop will feature how to,
Create vivid minor characters
Give and handle your characters’ backstory
Strike an emotion between the characters and the readers
Build characters your...
Writers love backstory! We need backstory. It’s pain and motivation and the unique angles that make our characters sing and howl at the moon. It’s the whys and hows. It explains everything.
Unfortunately, it can also kill story.
Backstory can be deployed. Done right, it’s a weapon in our...
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