Rollinbones
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- Mar 20, 2016
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Hello esteemed peers, I hope to borrow some of your authoritative experience to help me through a gate of sorts.
I'm scribbling a thing at the moment and have got to a point where I feel im bogging down into the back story. My sidekick is explaining to the main character the history of their circumstances, giving meaning and hopefully credence to some of the fantastic constructs I'm having them battle.
I've researched a lot of the associated factual history and hope to link it loosely to my fiction to give a loose skeleton of fact to hang my bullshit on. At present the sidekick has the history in the forms of personal experience and books to present to the main character.
I feel it bloating and becoming too much waffle for the characters to believably discuss.
Can you suggest devices or methods of presenting this back story which don't involve three pages of droll dialogue in what is loosely an action/smut piece.
I would gladly read examples you could direct me toward where authors have employed successful tactics.
Thanks in anticipation.
RB
I'm scribbling a thing at the moment and have got to a point where I feel im bogging down into the back story. My sidekick is explaining to the main character the history of their circumstances, giving meaning and hopefully credence to some of the fantastic constructs I'm having them battle.
I've researched a lot of the associated factual history and hope to link it loosely to my fiction to give a loose skeleton of fact to hang my bullshit on. At present the sidekick has the history in the forms of personal experience and books to present to the main character.
I feel it bloating and becoming too much waffle for the characters to believably discuss.
Can you suggest devices or methods of presenting this back story which don't involve three pages of droll dialogue in what is loosely an action/smut piece.
I would gladly read examples you could direct me toward where authors have employed successful tactics.
Thanks in anticipation.
RB