This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 623 episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast. I hope you

enjoyed this week's episode, The Backstory Dripe, Backstory Techniques Part 3 of 3. So what are the best back story techniques you can use

in your story? Over the past two weeks we've been discussing some of the

options writers have for sharing backstory in their stories.

And so far we've talked about four specialized techniques, analyzing their respective advantages,

disadvantages, and best use practices. Flashbacks, prologs, backstory, and alternating timelines.

All four techniques are important and useful, but most are only appropriate in specific situations

when the author desires to achieve a certain effect. What we haven't yet talked about is the single best

backstory technique, the one used in every type of story, the one that is always a good

choice, the one that offers the fewest possible

disadvantages, and the one that is most effective in communicating important

information to readers without interrupting the momentum of the main plot.

This technique is the backstory drip.

And it is actually several different techniques that come together to reveal back story so subtly and effectively,

readers may not even think to distinguish it from the main story.

Of course, the caveat is that it works this way when it's done well.

And today we're going to talk about how to do it well.

Now once again the backstory on this episode about backstory is that I was inspired to write it after watching

Amazon's limited series The English, a Western of Vengeance played out in a

Hellscape of the American Great Plains by an English lady intent on killing the

father of her dead son and a Pani warrior determined to claim land he has owned in Nebraska

for his service in the US cavalry.

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