Advanced Brilliant Writing: Make Your Plots Wider And Your Characters Deeper (Go! Write Something Brilliant) - Plot & Excerpts
Yes. Which is the Second Key to Deeper Characterization: Backstory Breadcrumbs Oh Hansel, I’m so afraid no one will find us! Never fear, Gretel, we will drop breadcrumbs, and someone will follow . . . Creating Backstory Breadcrumbs As you build your character and reveal his layers, you also need to keep in mind the balance between layering and dropping backstory elements that are essential to building the motivation of the character. See, your reader does need to know why your character is doing something. Not an entire diary entry, but just one sentence of information—and even that should only be the barest crumb of information. The key to Backstory is dropping just enough crumbs to stir your reader’s hunger for more. You don’t want to give them too much at the beginning, or they’ll get filled up, satisfied, and they won’t have an appetite to finish the journey. So, How much Backstory should you put into a scene? Just enough to give the reader the information he/she needs to understand/accept the current action and decisions.
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