Timeline for Is it bad if I sidetrack to a backstory that’s not really necessary but is interesting?
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| Feb 15, 2019 at 17:19 | history | edited | Cyn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 24, 2018 at 12:23 | comment | added | Kevin | @mickeyf Lol, I hated that chapter. | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 9:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWriting/status/1032915617509199873 | ||
| Aug 23, 2018 at 21:06 | comment | added | user26940 | I'm hearing "cut it", but I'm thinking about the Chapter in Moby Dick that goes on about Whales are really Fish, etc. Fascinating, gives context, but you could argue that it in no way whatsoever advances the plot. (Of course, I haven't read it for years and my memory may be omitting some crucial point.... ) | |
| Aug 23, 2018 at 17:00 | comment | added | Natural30 | My first thought is: can't you make it necessary? It's your story. | |
| Aug 23, 2018 at 15:00 | answer | added | JBiggs | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 23, 2018 at 13:06 | answer | added | knallfrosch | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 23, 2018 at 12:14 | comment | added | SF. | A very useful tool to spice up any "slow" sections of the main story. If you have some rather uninteresting but essential development to perform, making such a detour will keep the reader interested. | |
| S Aug 23, 2018 at 11:37 | history | suggested | Philipp | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 23, 2018 at 11:33 | answer | added | Amadeus | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 23, 2018 at 11:29 | answer | added | J.G. | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 23, 2018 at 10:49 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Aug 23, 2018 at 10:22 | comment | added | AJFaraday | Wouldn't your characters respond to the memories of this story emotionally? Might that inform some of their decisions and responses during the later story? There's plenty of ways to make it a part of the story. | |
| Aug 23, 2018 at 8:12 | comment | added | Totumus Maximus | How do you know the backstory is unnecessary? Aren't you telling new information to advance the plot? Are you foreshadowing a conflict to be resolved later? | |
| Aug 23, 2018 at 7:39 | comment | added | DrakaSAN | If you really can't fit the parent's story inside the book, why not release it as a stand alone, complementary short story? | |
| Aug 23, 2018 at 6:26 | answer | added | Matthew Dave | timeline score: 8 | |
| Aug 23, 2018 at 5:54 | answer | added | Ælis | timeline score: 21 | |
| Aug 23, 2018 at 4:36 | history | asked | Angel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |