#145. How To Develop Your Character's Backstory

Fiction Writing Made Easy

Savannah Gilbo

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🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Crafting compelling backstories for your fictional characters is critical to developing a cohesive story, but it’s sometimes easier said than done.There are endless options when it comes to which details you can include in your character’s backstory, and what you do include will influence everything that happens in your story—from the plot events to your character’s motivations to your own ability to manage the thematic subtext of your story on a scene-by-scene-basis.In this episode, I’m goin...

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0:35.5	past and if we want our characters to come across as authentic and
0:39.5	believable, then we need to understand their backstories. Woons in particular damage a character's
0:45.8	self-worth, they change how they view the world, they can cause trust issues, and they can
0:51.0	dictate how that character will interact with other people.
0:54.0	All of this can make it harder for them to achieve specific goals,
0:58.0	and it can make it easier for you to create meaningful conflict for them to face as they pursue those goals.
1:06.7	Welcome to the Fiction Writing Made Easy Podcast. My name is Savannah Gilboe and I'm here to help
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1:35.0	In today's episode we're going to talk about developing character backstory
1:39.3	including the three ingredients you can and should develop when it comes to backstory.
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