Latest in Backstory

Q&A

How Do I Establish Backstory?

Submitted by Svend, answered by Oren Ashkenazi

January 10, 2022January 5, 2022 in Storytelling

Episode 360: Backstory

How much backstory should your story have?

January 2, 2022January 2, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi, Chris Winkle, Wes Matlock, and R. Christian Haining

Project Hail Mary Shows When Flashbacks Do and Don’t Work

The author of The Martian tries to make flashbacks work and only partially succeeds.

August 13, 2021August 12, 2021 by Chris Winkle in Analysis

Judging What Backstory to Keep and What to Let Go

If you include too much history, your story will be an overburdened mess.

June 12, 2020November 23, 2022 by Chris Winkle in Storytelling, Writing