Comments on: Warrior Writer: Deadly Sins of Writing—Sin #5 The Bog of Back-Story https://authorkristenlamb.com/2009/06/warrior-writer-deadly-sins-of-writing-sin-5-the-bog-of-back-story/ Author, Blogger, Social Media Jedi Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:36:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: submeg https://authorkristenlamb.com/2009/06/warrior-writer-deadly-sins-of-writing-sin-5-the-bog-of-back-story/#comment-413 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:36:18 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=25#comment-413 Once I had started to think of the plot, I then shifted my focus to the characters that would populate the story. In creating the characters, I planned out their back stories to ensure that I “knew” the characters before they entered the story. How much of that story will be shared in the actual story? Not sure yet.

]]> By: The Hook https://authorkristenlamb.com/2009/06/warrior-writer-deadly-sins-of-writing-sin-5-the-bog-of-back-story/#comment-412 Sat, 25 Aug 2012 20:46:17 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=25#comment-412 Its hard to stay on solid ground, but I’ll try…

]]> By: Handy Dandy Series | Kait Nolan https://authorkristenlamb.com/2009/06/warrior-writer-deadly-sins-of-writing-sin-5-the-bog-of-back-story/#comment-411 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:44:01 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=25#comment-411 […] Blood Lessons–Deadly Sins of Writing (Sin#5–The Bog of Back-Story) […]

]]> By: Bob Mayer https://authorkristenlamb.com/2009/06/warrior-writer-deadly-sins-of-writing-sin-5-the-bog-of-back-story/#comment-410 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:23:20 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=25#comment-410 Almost half our outline for AGNES AND THE HITMAN, with Jenny Crusie, was backstory. We had to figure out what had actually happened in a key event 25 years ago. Then, where our heads exploded, was we had to know what each character REMEMBERED happening. Remember, memory is shaped by perception. So each person had a different perception. Also, flashback and memory are two different things. Flashback is what happened, memory is what someone remembers happening and is warped by what they want now.

]]> By: Jenni Holbrook https://authorkristenlamb.com/2009/06/warrior-writer-deadly-sins-of-writing-sin-5-the-bog-of-back-story/#comment-409 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:14:16 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=25#comment-409 I have a love/hate relationship with backstory. I have to know it, understand it, develop it, deal with it, even write it, so long as it doesn’t end up in said book. If that makes sense. Always easy for me to pick it out of someone else’s story, but my own? Uh-huh, yeah, right.

This is a timely post. I’m currently working on characters and developing them within the frame of my story. Truthfully, it hasn’t been going so well lately. I’m stuck. I’m working, digging, writing, doing whatever I can to flesh them out, I just haven’t hit the high note yet. Some tell me to just write the book, it will come to me. I have a hard time doing that. I want to know certain things so I don’t write myself into a corner or have characters that are too stupid to live. I am fairly confident I will get there, though I have to admit the dreaded “I suck” syndrome has returned. Well, on ward and forward, or whatever. Must get back to characters….

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