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Casual Articles - Writing Novels - The Dilemma Of How To Tell Your Back Story
Tips This Holiday Season For Parents And GrandparentsIf you are contemplating a divorce or going through a divorce this holiday season, it is crucial that you don’t make your children suffer during the holidays... or for any other time for that matter. With some effort on the part of both parents, your children’s holiday won’t be a time they remember as adults as the saddest time of the year.Brian James, president of C.E.L. & Associates, a certified mediator who specializes in pre and post divorce issues points out: “Save any divorce talk with your children until after the holidays. There is no nee
The obvious solution is to use flashbacks. Begin your story with the crisis, and then flashback to the back-story. The reader is more likely to remain hooked because she wants to know how the crisis will be resolved, so you’re not ris
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Actually, no. Not easy. A problem, actually. Readers want to launch straight into action … BUT … they also need to know who our characters are. They need, above all, to care about our characters. They need to have an investment in whether our character gets what she wants/solves the problem/etc. They need to understand why this conflict or crisis is such a big deal for our character. (This last point doesn’t apply to every crisis. For example, we obviously don’t need to explain why our heroine wants to escape a burning building. But we might need to explain why this pregnancy is a problem. Or why she really, really, needs this job and so the redundancy notice is totally devastating rather than merely problematic).
So we have a couple of choices. The first one is to begin the story with the back-story (as it’s called). Take as long as you need to explain who your character is, where she lives, what her life circumstances are and so on, and then introduce the crisis. The danger with this – and it’s a big danger – is that you risk losing your reader’s interest. They’ll allow you maybe two or three pages to set the scene, but much more than that and they’re likely to get bored and switch off.
The obvious solution is to use flashbacks. Begin your story with the crisis, and then flashback to the back-story. The reader is more likely to remain hooked because she wants to know how the crisis will be resolved, so you’re not risk
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Actually, no. Not easy. A problem, actually. Readers want to launch straight into action … BUT … they also need to know who our characters are. They need, above all, to care about our characters. They need to have an investment in whether our character gets what she wants/solves the problem/etc. They need to understand why this conflict or crisis is such a big deal for our character. (This last point doesn’t apply to every crisis. For example, we obviously don’t need to explain why our heroine wants to escape a burning building. But we might need to explain why this pregnancy is a problem. Or why she really, really, needs this job and so the redundancy notice is totally devastating rather than merely problematic).
So we have a couple of choices. The first one is to begin the story with the back-story (as it’s called). Take as long as you need to explain who your character is, where she lives, what her life circumstances are and so on, and then introduce the crisis. The danger with this – and it’s a big danger – is that you risk losing your reader’s interest. They’ll allow you maybe two or three pages to set the scene, but much more than that and they’re likely to get bored and switch off.
The obvious solution is to use flashbacks. Begin your story with the crisis, and then flashback to the back-story. The reader is more likely to remain hooked because she wants to know how the crisis will be resolved, so you’re not ris
Many people never start or continue a budget because of time.It takes too much time.Believe me, you will waste more time if you don't get started now. You will spend years paying interest that could have been savings. You'll retire later, have more stressful debt and waste money if you don't start a budget and stick to it. Wise money management will save you time.For example, you can spend ten minutes a night working on your finances, such as your checkbook register and bills, or spend two hours straightening a two-week mess out.Budgets aren't anything more than a simple plan. You are
So we have a couple of choices. The first one is to begin the story with the back-story (as it’s called). Take as long as you need to explain who your character is, where she lives, what her life circumstances are and so on, and then introduce the crisis. The danger with this – and it’s a big danger – is that you risk losing your reader’s interest. They’ll allow you maybe two or three pages to set the scene, but much more than that and they’re likely to get bored and switch off.
The obvious solution is to use flashbacks. Begin your story with the crisis, and then flashback to the back-story. The reader is more likely to remain hooked because she wants to know how the crisis will be resolved, so you’re not ris
This country's credit card users are entering an era where they are facing increasingly serious debt collection issues. A debt reduction program should be considered sooner and not later. You should be asking yourself if you are using in excess of 30-50% of your available credit. You should also be aware of being in danger of missing a payment. This is a sign that you should be headed to the nearest licensed debt counseling agency. Here are some alarming situations that may affect you if you wait too long to become enrolled in a debt management program.In the past, once credit accounts had been charged of
So we have a couple of choices. The first one is to begin the story with the back-story (as it’s called). Take as long as you need to explain who your character is, where she lives, what her life circumstances are and so on, and then introduce the crisis. The danger with this – and it’s a big danger – is that you risk losing your reader’s interest. They’ll allow you maybe two or three pages to set the scene, but much more than that and they’re likely to get bored and switch off.
The obvious solution is to use flashbacks. Begin your story with the crisis, and then flashback to the back-story. The reader is more likely to remain hooked because she wants to know how the crisis will be resolved, so you’re not ris
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The obvious solution is to use flashbacks. Begin your story with the crisis, and then flashback to the back-story. The reader is more likely to remain hooked because she wants to know how the crisis will be resolved, so you’re not risking boring her. The problem here, however, is that you risk frustrating her.
‘Never mind that!’ she might be thinking, ‘is the heroine going to escape the blaze? I don’t care that she was the most popular girl in school or that she wanted to be an actress. I just care if she gets barbecued or not.’
Stories are forward-moving … a flashback is backward looking. It stops the story dead.
A third solution, and it’s my favourite one if the story permits it, is to explain the back story through dialogue. Have your heroine (or hero, of course) tell her or his back-story to somebody. I used this technique in my first novel Looking Good. I had my heroine Grainne and her friends at a dinner party, and there was a stranger there to whom they all told their life stories. Briefly and succinctly as you would to a stranger, giving just the salient points. (Just the facts, Ma’am, just the facts). Because the dinner party was happening in the ‘now’ of the story, it’s not frustrating the reader by going backwards. And I made sure that the dinner party itself was integral to the story, rather than just a device for explaining the back-story, by using it to foreshadow what was to come. It wasn’t very integral to the story - if I could, I would have had more happen at the dinner party, but I couldn’t, and I was pleased anyway with the way it served its purpose.
Be careful with this device, however. You need to make sure it’s not contrived. The information should flow very naturally from whatever situa
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