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Oct 13, 2016 at 9:58am
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Re: Day 12 rant

Absolutely.

I recently reviewed a novel that was so filled with technicalities and info dumps, the actual "story" could have been told as a short. Too bad, too, because when the story revealed itself, it was an awesome, creative, original plot!

Back story is definitely for us to know just to enrich the story at hand.


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