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November 2006: History
So . . . you have your story idea, someone who has a problem he must struggle to solve, and you know how you want your story to end. What else is involved in a story plan? Are you ready to begin writing?
Probably not. I believe that more stories fail because writers don’t spend enough time making a plan before they begin to write than for any other reason. So what else is there to know?
Your character needs a history. If she is born the day she walks onto your page, she isn’t going to be very interesting. Everybody loves a newborn baby, but not many people want to spend a lot of time sitting around watching one. Newborns haven’t developed into interesting people yet. They have no history.
What kind of history does your character need? Everything that happened to him from the day he was born until the day your story starts?
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