As a science fiction writer, I spend a lot of time thinking and talking about world-building. It’s my job to craft a believably unbelievable world for…
Backstory is the personal history of your characters before we meet them in the novel. Although the reader won’t necessarily know every detail about the protagonists’…
Backstory is the history of each character in your novel. The reader meets these characters at a certain point in time. Since you’re telling a story,…
Backstory, by definition, is the story in the back. Don’t constantly move it to the forefront of your main story, boring your readers to death. Let’s…
So, you’ve done your research, your world building, and honed each character’s history. Now, how do you incorporate that backstory into your actual novel? Think of…
In last week’s post, I talked about character development, specifically about how to develop complex, nuanced personalities that will come through loud and clear in the…