https://writersinthestormblog.com A Blog On Writing Sun, 12 Jan 2025 22:38:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://writersinthestormblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WITS-Logo-150x150.jpg https://writersinthestormblog.com 32 32 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2021/02/backstory-dodging-the-info-dump/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2021/02/backstory-dodging-the-info-dump/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2021 08:18:00 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=41931 Backstory. You can’t write with it. You can’t write without it. So how do you sidestep the information dump and slip subtly into the middle ground? Lori Freeland offers eight ways to do it right.

The post Backstory: Dodging the Info Dump first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> https://writersinthestormblog.com/2021/02/backstory-dodging-the-info-dump/feed/ 26 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2018/10/the-brilliance-of-backstory-slip-ins/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2018/10/the-brilliance-of-backstory-slip-ins/#comments Fri, 05 Oct 2018 11:01:32 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=34858 by Margie Lawson I confess. I’m in love with the way some authors slip in backstory. I’m not talking chunks of backstory that sit on your page like cement blocks. The kind of blah blah blah that invites readers to skim. I’m talking about little hits of backstory. Those smooth keep-your-story-moving backstory slip-ins. What is […]

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