backstory

[marycatelli]

Beware backstory.

Poking around with a character's backstory and found it ramifying.

And NOT in support of the story. Just happy little incidents in her happy childhood, few of which will even have a chance to affect the future. Maybe some characters will re-appear, but old home week does not move the story forward.

Not to mention NOT in creating a new beginning of the story -- the drama still starts when it starts. (Hmm. Maybe a LITTLE earlier.)

Though I did manage to get one hint by having her babble of something that happened to her, making her the expert when the same monster shows up. (Expert: the person who saw the monster once before.)

Comments

Re: Expert

[nodrog]

“The purpose of the Security Grunt is to show the audience how the monster works.”

One of those phrases that sticks in your head.

Re: Expert

[marycatelli]

But you have to conceal it. . . .