[stylist] background from Helene

[Judith Bron]

The relationships between your characters should come out through their 
interaction.  Their backgrounds and personalities should come out in the 
same way.  If you are writing about their backgrounds independently from the 
manuscript then you are missing something in your telling of the story. 
Judith
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "helene ryles" <dreamavdb at googlemail.com>
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] background from Helene


> Judith,
> What do you mean exactly?
>
> Helene
>
> On 21/09/2009, Judith Bron <jbron at optonline.net> wrote:
>> Helene, Your background information about your characters and 
>> relationships
>> as you told them to us is fine, but most readers aren't going to sit down 
>> to
>> a new book and read chapters about background information about them. 
>> Your
>> book is a novel.  The characters, their roles and relationships should be
>> obvious to your readers without a manual to guide them through the book.
>> Hope this is helpful, Judith
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