How many pages before you introduced the first chunk of back-story?
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I try to avoid backstory altogether because I hate reading lots of stuff that's gone before, often of limited relevance to what's going on 'now'.
Sometimes that's impossible: for example if one character questions another about a previous experience, which might even have happened in an earlier book, but which there's no guarantee the reader will know about. Then you must be prepared to offer explanation in some way.
Usually you can find a subtle way to drip this sort of information in. A thought. An experience which triggers a memory. A conversation, maybe.
But not reams of 'twenty years ago, 'X' had been...' Yuk! That's a good way to put readers off, IMHO :)
I try to avoid backstory altogether because I hate reading lots of stuff that's gone before, often of limited relevance to what's going on 'now'.
Sometimes that's impossible: for example if one character questions another about a previous experience, which might even have happened in an earlier book, but which there's no guarantee the reader will know about. Then you must be prepared to offer explanation in some way.
Usually you can find a subtle way to drip this sort of information in. A thought. An experience which triggers a memory. A conversation, maybe.
But not reams of 'twenty years ago, 'X' had been...' Yuk! That's a good way to put readers off, IMHO :)
pages... i'm not sure.
I can talk about chapters, though.
Usually, I leave small hints and loose ends in around chapter 3-5, and introduce the back story, roughly in chapter 8.
A chapter has an average of... 3 wattpad pages? ie. 9 A5 sides...