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