Last Friday I wrote a guest post about being an alcoholic for Stefanie’s blog, and some of you guys went over and read it. One of you, in particular, who has been reading me for a long time, liked the post because you said it felt “real.” This made me think a little bit. Because […]
backstory
As its name indicates, a backstory is the story behind the story. Though it does not usually concern the present tense of the main narrative, the backstory provides insight to the main narrative by contextualizing the events of the main plot. A story that includes an extensive backstory tells you not just who and what, but offers hints as to how and why.
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When I started writing posts for ABDPBT, I did not think I was writing my autobiography. But as time went by, I found myself writing more and more about events and people from the past. I created the "backstory" category as a catch-all for posts that concern my life in the past. You will notice that there is a lot of cross-classification between "backstory" and the "fiction. sorta." category; this is because in some posts, I have fictionalized people, places, and events to varying degrees.
Some of my favorite posts from this category are listed below:
The full archives for "backstory" are listed below. Have fun poking around in the cobwebbed catacombs of my youth--you might want to pack some prozac just in case.
TWEET THISPeople, if when you finish this, you decide you haven’t had enough myopic navel-gazing for a Friday morning, please go check out my guest post today at Stefanie Wilder-Taylor’s blog, Baby On Bored. We’ll be talking about not drinking, so be sure to bring your dancing shoes.
The first time you met somebody who shared your […]
