: Re: Is it bad if I sidetrack to a backstory that’s not really necessary but is interesting? My story is about two children and one of them dies in the first chapter. I give a four page backstory

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it is unnecessary but very interesting.

For a story reader, unnecessary and interesting are exclusive. Either make it necessary and interesting or remove it.

Orwell's third rule to effective writing applies to passages:

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

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