Welcome to the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast. I'm K M. Wyland and I am here to take you

deep with story theory, writing techniques, and the incredible wisdom of story.

I believe story is the greatest power on this earth,

and that as writers, we carry the torch of wielding that power

with responsibility, passion, and skill.

There is no such thing as just a story.

Today, it is my honor and my purpose

to help you write your best story,

astound the world, and maybe change your life.

Hello and welcome to everything you need to know about backstory. I'm Kim Weiland and you are listening to the

helping writers become authors podcast or you may be watching it because this is also a video post.

So if you'd rather watch, you can find that on YouTube.

If you are watching, and you would rather listen,

you can find the podcast version on my podcast,

helping writers become authors on all of the major

podcast platforms and if you'd rather read you can find a full transcript of this

episode on my website at helping writers become authors.com. If you're on YouTube I will

leave links to that down below. Okay so backstory. Today where this video is in answer to a question from SW, who asked, I'm interested in how you figure

out how to chunk backstory and sprinkle it through the story.

So this is always a pertinent question

because wherever you have a story, obviously you have backstory.

And backstory, simply put, is just

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