Articles on Writing Backstory

• Back Story: Too Much, Too Soon? By Cynthia VanRooy Ever have the experience of meeting someone at a party and within minutes you've heard about their three miscarriages, the ex-husband they left because of his drinking, the ...
• Backstory Techniques By Cheryl Wright Show me an interesting character, and I immediately know the author has done her homework. Backstory will make or break a character. So exactly what is backsto...
• Backstory Without Boredom By Corbette Doyle Original Publication Date in Love Notes: January 2002 Advice is cheap, especially for struggling novelists. Be a Point of View Purist. Minimize the use of italics. Do...
• Backstory: BS is for ‘Back Story’ By Chris Lee Ramsden All your main characters have a back story that you should probably know inside out. However, your readers don't need to be exposed to all the excruciating de...
• Backstory: How To Write Backstory Without Putting Your Reader To Sleep By Dwight V. Swain Backstory, or a character's past, is often necessary to explain a character's motivations. It can add insight on personality or create reader sympathy.However, you s...
• BACKSTORY: Impact of Reading SFF By Darcy Pattison Many of my thoughts about backstory are shaped by the needs of fantasy and science fiction writing (sff) where the writer creates a world, complete with complex histor...
• Backstory: The Backstory, Or: Just Where The Heck Does It All Start? By Steve Dempster If you have decided to write a novel, the story that exists within it extends way beyond the book itself. This 'backstory' is what helps give your book depth: ...
• Backstory: Weaving It In Without Slowing the Pace By Winnie Griggs What is Backstory? Quite simply, it is everything that happened to your characters from their birth up until the point your story opens. So, by definition, all ba...

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