Comments on: Behind the Scenes: How to Craft Compelling Backstory https://writershelpingwriters.net/2024/05/behind-the-scenes-how-to-craft-compelling-backstory/ Helping writers become bestselling authors Wed, 22 May 2024 11:56:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: ANGELA ACKERMAN https://writershelpingwriters.net/2024/05/behind-the-scenes-how-to-craft-compelling-backstory/#comment-772216 Wed, 22 May 2024 11:56:41 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=55544#comment-772216 Great advice, Michelle! Backstory is so important, but as you say, showing it through behavior, voice, needs, personality, and areas of focus/avoidance is so much more compelling than dumping a bunch of telling to ‘clue readers in’ about formative past events. Seeding hints primes a reader’s need to know, keeping them on the hook. Then, if we need to share a bit of direct backstory to provide clarity it won’t disrupt the pace or flow.

]]> By: Michelle Barker https://writershelpingwriters.net/2024/05/behind-the-scenes-how-to-craft-compelling-backstory/#comment-772175 Tue, 21 May 2024 12:11:59 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=55544#comment-772175 In reply to MINDY ALYSE WEISS.

Thanks, Mindy! I’m glad to hear you picked up a few new tricks 🙂 We definitely remember things better as readers when they’re shown to us rather than told.

]]> By: MINDY ALYSE WEISS https://writershelpingwriters.net/2024/05/behind-the-scenes-how-to-craft-compelling-backstory/#comment-772174 Tue, 21 May 2024 11:50:03 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=55544#comment-772174 Thanks for this helpful post, Michelle! Showing is always so much more powerful than hearing about something that already happened. I especially love the thought of building backstory hints into voice… and can’t wait to try it.

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