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Submitted by Jennifer Lewis on Thu, 2009-02-26 13:43.

The Dreaded Backstory
“Backstory”—the very word can make a writer shudder. Isn’t that the barrage of useless and often boring information about your characters’ past that can bury your story alive in the first chapter? Well… yes, BUT! A personal history also fleshes out your characters and turns then into three-dimensional individuals with their own foibles and issues that feed your conflict and breathe life into your story.
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