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3.5 Pacing your Backstory

3.5 Pacing your Backstory

FromLit Service


3.5 Pacing your Backstory

FromLit Service

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Length:
26 minutes
Released:
Apr 5, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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
Released:
Apr 5, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

A show giving dodgy writing advice and first chapter critiques for aspiring writers.