Should I change this into the occasional inner thought and dialogue?

I have a writer friend that took the time to do several critiques and most of what she didn’t like was that I’m not giving enough back story and the reasons why the maun pov is doing things.

I thought I was giving out enough information without giving too much away, but now after reading this article wonder if I should keep doing what I’m doing or scrap the flashbacks?

Off toppic:

Is it a problem if the first three or so chapters move at a hectic pace before slowing down? The only way the first chapter worked was tossing the main pov right into fire, the second chapter what happens after, third chap. She runs into the co-main character, then later on it switches to that character and finally slows down a little.

I can’t see any spot before then where I’d make sense for them to think about much more then how not to get killed and escape.

Yet my friend is saying I need to and why it’s bad.

I understand what she’s saying and why but can’t figure out how until several chapters later. So far I haven’t applied any of the proposed changes as it doesn’t feel right.

Needless to say she’s a bit annoyed. *Sigh*

Any advice on what to do would be appreciated.

For now I’m just going to leave things as they are as when I did try it didn’t seem to fit and I changed things back.

Thanks for this great reminder about keeping those secrets. Now that I’m working on my own novel, it’s something I’ll be sure to keep in mind as I get through this first draft and then decide in subsequent drafts where and when to torture my readers with what.

That is a FANTASTIC book. LOVED it in audio, so consider an Audible membership if you don’t already have one *wink, wink*