One of the challenges of writing a story is that you have to take what you have imagined and convey that image to another person so that they can have the same experience and enjoyment that you have had. If I held a photo in my hand and you had to guess what it looked like . . . could you? No. You...
During my last post I wrote about backstory. As an oversimplified reminder Backstory can be broken down into scene and summary. Scene is good. Summary is bad. The telling of events that have already ended has its limitations. The stuff has already happened. This can be overcome by making the scene develop the character meaningfully. Again you can read all of the criticisms...