Who is this person? Why are they doing that? Why should I care. You might read a lot of stories where there’s plenty of action, but they can be a bit hard to follow if you don’t know anything about the characters and how they react to it. Otherwise you may as well be reading a manuscript for a movie. Stories should make the reader want to find out more about the characters rather than predict what is going to happen to them. A bit of backtracking never did anyone any harm and it certainly fills in a few blank pages. It also gives you the opportunity to display how unique your character is and show their traits and attributes. But you might want to keep some things a mystery to encourage your reader to read more and not make your character’s reactions so predictable. Otherwise it would be quite easy for the reader to foresee the rest of your story.
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