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Backstory Seminar | Grub Street Writers, Boston

  • Grub Street writers 162 Boylston St. 5th floor Boston, MA (map)

Whether you’re writing a novel or a memoir, every character has a past, and every writer has to know what it is. But backstory is like the tip of Hemingway’s iceberg: the bulk of it should be underwater, so the reader sees only what’s necessary. How do you figure out what’s crucial for the reader to know? Where do you plug in that backstory without slowing the momentum way down? What’s the difference between backstory and flashback? When do you do a full scene and when is a paragraph enough? In this seminar, Jenna will share her tips and techniques for incorporating essential backstory into a narrative that still moves. To sign up, please CLICK HERE.