13.19: Backstories
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Amal, and Maurice
Character backstories: these are the tales that describe how the characters in your story became who they are by the time they arrive in the book. How much backstory needs to be written before you start in on the manuscript? How much needs to be in the manuscript itself? And how much backstory is too much?
Homework: Write a flashbacks scene that reveals a key bit of a character’s backstory. Then reveal the same bit of backstory in a scene where the character describes the events to someone else.
Thing of the week: Racing the Dark. by Alaya Dawn Johnson.
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