Backstory is one of those topics that we hear a lot about. Too much backstory or an info dump can slow your story – or worse, the reader gets bored and stops reading altogether. Not enough backstory and the reader isn’t grounded in the world and invested in your characters. Lots of articles and advice on that.
We generally love our characters – and we want everyone else to love them too. So the dilemma is what to do with all this great information we have that can’t make it into the novel. And sometimes there’s a really interesting… Continue reading