#14: How to Handle Character Backstory in Your Novel
Fiction Writing Made Easy with Savannah Gilbo | How to Write a Novel & Writing Advice
Savannah Gilbo
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🗓️ 16 June 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, Savannah here. Before we get into today's episode, I wanted to share our next book |
| 0:05.0 | pick with you because I'm super excited to dig into this book and see how and why it works. |
| 0:10.0 | Our next meeting is coming up on November 16th at 4 p.m. Pacific, 7 p.m. Eastern, and we're going to be |
| 0:16.0 | digging into the fourth wing by Rebecca Yarrows. |
| 0:19.1 | Abigail and I are so excited to deconstruct this book and these meetings are always so much fun. |
| 0:24.1 | They're interactive so in addition to our presentation on why we think this story works |
| 0:28.8 | and why we think it resonates with readers, there are also polls and lots of opportunities to chat with other |
| 0:34.4 | writers and ask us questions and you know just participate in a group discussion |
| 0:38.8 | about a really awesome book. As always our aim is to analyze a novel and translate our learnings into |
| 0:44.8 | actionable tips, tools, and strategies that you can take and implement in your own |
| 0:48.8 | writing right away. So if you want to join us or if you want to learn more about how the book club works, go to |
| 0:54.4 | Savannah Gilboe.com forward slash book. One more time, that's Savannah Gilboe.com forward slash book |
| 1:01.1 | dash club. Hope to see you there there and that's because the pacing of |
| 1:04.5 | your story is going to slow to a halt because of all that information you just |
| 1:08.4 | dumped on the reader and it's most likely going to result in you losing their |
| 1:12.3 | interest and that's really why you need to weave most likely going to result in you losing their interest. |
| 1:13.2 | And that's really why you need to weave backstory into your novel bit by bit |
| 1:17.3 | where it's relevant to what's happening in the scene |
| 1:20.0 | so that you can avoid dumping a whole bunch of information on readers at once. |
| 1:25.3 | Welcome to the Fiction Writing Made Easy Podcast. |
| 1:28.2 | My name is Savannah Gilboe and I'm here to help you write a story that works. |
| 1:32.4 | I want to prove to you that writing a novel |
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