3.5 Pacing your Backstory

You have your fabulous main character, their deliciously dark past, their wealth of relationships, habits, memories, and everything else that makes them who they are-- and then you have to write the first chapter. What can you put in, what should you leave out, and how do you make it interesting? Listen in as we discuss how to best drop your back story in a way that is natural and interesting.

Some books and media we talk about:

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

The Last Jedi (movie)

Animorphs (series) by H. A. Applegate

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

Isabel: Taking Wing by Annie Dalton