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Date Posted: 11:24:37 05/21/10 Fri
Author: Fi
Subject: Re: Part 2 (word count 1245) >>>>
In reply to: Promise 's message, "Re: Part 2 (word count 1245) >>>>" on 00:56:14 05/19/10 Wed

>Kind of an abrupt way to tell a kid, isn�t it?
>
>There�s a lot of exposition of back-story in the
>conversation and it just doesn�t feel natural.

Hi Promise,

Thanks for your useful comments. Looks like I have a lot of editing work to do. Backstory is such a pain!

Fi

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[> [> [> [> Re: Part 2 (word count 1245) >>>> -- Promise, 12:56:53 05/21/10 Fri

Fi,

Yeah, backstory is hard to deal with. As you could see from my own work, I'm struggling with it as well.

It's so hard because *we*, the authors, know the backstory and we want it to be in our readers' minds from the beginning, so that they understand the characters and their actions in the same way we do.

But, thinking of how DG reveals backstory in bits and blobs throughout the books, maybe characters are *more* interesting when you don't understand everything they do because you don't know the backstory? What do you think?

Promise

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[> [> [> [> [> I agree. It's tempting to think the readers need to know this NOW rather than build up their interests first. But if writing was easy, where would the challenge be? -- Fi, 12:51:49 05/25/10 Tue

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