{"id":434,"date":"2010-04-20T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/too-much-back-story.html"},"modified":"2010-04-20T22:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T22:37:00","slug":"too-much-back-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/too-much-back-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Much Back Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/S84tIynFVCI\/AAAAAAAADgk\/odRBJsNTfPw\/s1600\/fountain+pen+writing.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/S84tIynFVCI\/AAAAAAAADgk\/odRBJsNTfPw\/s400\/fountain+pen+writing.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462353027094893602\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m judging entries for ACFW&#8217;s Genesis Contest now. I&#8217;ve noticed that some new writers have a terrible problem with putting too much back story in the opening chapters. Remember, it&#8217;s best to sprinkle back story throughout the book sparingly&#8230;kind of like using salt on food, a little goes a long way. Nobody wants to start a book off by reading a character&#8217;s internal thoughts which gives a history of their life! Make something exciting happen, and give back story later, in bits and pieces! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\">~Cecelia Dowdy~<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m judging entries for ACFW&#8217;s Genesis Contest now. I&#8217;ve noticed that some new writers have a terrible problem with putting too much back story in the opening chapters. Remember, it&#8217;s best to sprinkle back story throughout the book sparingly&#8230;kind of like using salt on food, a little goes a long way. Nobody wants to start [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-related-posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-70","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}