I count myself as a novice writer. I’ve been scribbling things for a long time, but I’ve only really started working on my ability recently. And of course I’ve had some bad habits to break. Although one that I didn’t even know I had concerned character back story and world building.
Up till recently, I’ve been having serious issues about three-fourths into the plot of whatever story I was working on. Things got tangled, complicated, or I’d lose track of something and end up painting myself into a corner.
So I decided to try something new. I’d heard before from my Teacher that working on a character’s back story helps to open up the plot and keeps the story going. So I sat down and made myself start writing out a character’s back story, starting from when she was a little kid. It actually made me a little nervous to try something I’d never done before, embarrassing as it is to admit. But once I started, I found myself with hand cramps from writing so much and an almost complete story in front of me. It was a little surprising, I didn’t know I even had it in me before I started. It isn’t surprising that I was going about writing in a way that didn’t work for me at all. -_-U
Now that I’ve finally found a way that works for me, world building, and making a plot that doesn’t look like Swiss cheese is so much easier! And fun too, which is good cause there’s nothing that kills writing more then it not being any fun.
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