One key to writing a book that connects with readers is including characters they care about.
Or hate. It can be characters they hate. Just as long as the readers want to follow from the first page to the last.
Follow-worthy characters come from awesome descriptions, dialogue, goals you want to see them achieve, odds to beat, or devastating actions to their consequences. Another layer to add to your characters is the one that makes them; their backstory.
Backstory Basics
Don’t Info Dump
While you should avoid info dumping any part of your book, info dumping the backstory rates even higher. Why? Because it slows things down. This is especially true in the first three chapters of your book.
The beginning of the book is when you should hook the reader, not bore them with how the MC grew up in a small town, got high grades throughout school, moved to…
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