The writing of novels - The dilemma of how to tell your story Back

We writers have a real dilemma. Modern readers have little time for us, waffle, they want to want us to go directly to the action. The authors are invited to go as late as possible and leave as soon as possible and is very good advice for novelists to. Readers want things to happen. You do not want to hang with great description. So on that basis, you start off your story about the conflict or a crisis, and from there. Simple, yes?
Not really. Not easy. A problem, yes. Readers want to jump start into the action ... BUT ... They also want to know who our characters. They need, above all, regardless of our characters. You need to know whether an investment in our character gets what she wants / solves the problem / etc. You have to understand why this conflict or crisis is Standard and Poor's, a great thing for our character. (Not the latter apply to all crises. For example, we have not clearly need to explain why our heroine wants to escape a burning building. But we have to explain why this pregnancy is a problem. Or why they really, really need this job and if the termination is completely devastating rather than merely problematic).
So we have a few options. The first is the story of the back-story is to begin (as they say). Take as long as you explain who your character, they need no life, what are their life situation and so on, then put the crisis. The danger in this - and this is a great danger - is that you lose the reader's interest risk. Perhaps you can bore two or three pages on the scene, but much more than they probably are and switch.
The obvious solution is to use of flashbacks. Begin your story with flashbacks to the crisis, then back-story. The reader is more solid, because they know how the crisis will be solved, will have to go, if not risk, are boring. The problem here, but you can "It's frustrating.
"No matter!" You might think, "is the heroine will escape the fire?, I do not know how it was the most popular girls in school, or they wanted to be an actress. I thought, no matter whether it is the grill, or does not win."
The stories go ahead ... Flashback is outdated. It stops the story dead.
A third solution, and it is my favorite, when the driver of the story is the backstory to explain through dialogue. Ask your heroine (or hero, say, of course), he or she recommend back-post. I used this technique in my first novel, Looking Good. I had my heroine Grainne and her friends at a dinner, and it was a stranger, he said, they all want their life stories. Short and sweet, as you would a stranger, with only the highlights. (Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts). As the dinner is done in the "now" of history, it's not frustrating to the reader in reverse order. And I am sure the dinner itself was an integral part of the story, rather than to explain only one device on the back history, and knowing what would happen. It was not really an integral part of the story - if I could be more done at the dinner would have been, but I could not, and I was still happy with the way they achieved their goal.
Be careful with this device, however. You must ensure that it is not artificial. When the information flow very naturally in any situation you have created. Avoid at all costs, really awkward, like: "Hi, I'm her and I'm 33 and live alone, but I used to have a friend, but he left me, I am very sad and its theme, but I just met a new man ... "
There are times you need to use flashbacks, but also staged. But to know that everyone has a price, and use it as little as necessary.
So, briefly summarized, there are three options for the back-story before:
1st Start with it (namely the establishment of the stage). 2nd Flashbacks 3rd permanent dialogue 4th A mixture of the above three.
And who is better? Like I said, the choice I would go with the dialogue, but it is not always possible.
Otherwise, the best solution for you. This is part of the balance of the letter and describe your experience. This is part of the challenge of writing, and sometimes it takes compromise, and this is part of the skills you bring to the job-how you manage these issues. could it not boring if you someone, "You always say-x, your backup is the story?
However, remember that you do not - indeed should, do not you - say everything about your character Pls we first met him. Suffice it to say, enough to make us to them and what will happen to him. (And do not forget that the reader is on your side. It has taken the reading of your book and it is, it is vulnerable to natural and no matter what happens, love. Just Do not Jump!).