How To Craft a Compelling Backstory for Your Novel and Keep Track of It!

If you consider a story to be one large event that creates an irreversible change, then it must have a beginning to have an end. It must start from somewhere and be in a particular state to experience said change, and there must be a reason for that initial state of being.

That reason, my friend, is the backstory.

Crafting a compelling backstory is essential to creating realistic characters with motivations and complex problems the reader will relate to.