By the way, I just remembered a great example of how to deal with exposition. Do you remember the first Terminator movie? The Michael Biehn character tells the Linda Hamilton character what a terminator is, where it comes from and why it is persuing them. This is an awful lot of information to get across. But is it a boring scene of two people talking? No! Biehn is yelling at Hamilton while driving recklessly and ducking bullets. The audience dont even realize they are being fed information, because it is disguised so well in a full-blown action sequence. Weaving the information into the action does the trick.
shemia, you have no car chase in your story, but maybe you can come up with a way to tell the background story without interrupting your narrative.

Message edited on: 08/30/2004 06:27