Backstory

Although it sometimes is true that backstory is not seen within the confines of the story, it is also true that you cannot have a story without a backstory. Where your story starts, there is always what happened before. What happened before the dinosaurs? Walking fish. What happened before walking fish? Swimming fish. What happened before swimming fish? Muti-celled organisms. What happened before that/ Single celled organism. And so on -all the way back to the big bang, and even that has a backstory; we just don't know it yet.

 

Let's move up a few million millennia to the day when Julius East crossed the Rubicon. For those of you shy in your historical knowledge of Western Civilization, before Julius Caesar became Emperor of Rome, he was perceived as a threat to the Roman state, the Roman Senate, and Pompey the Great Caesar's son in law and ally-turned power-hungry-enemy. To confine Caesar's influence within Rome, the Senators forbade Caesar from coming into Italy from the province of Gaul. The barrier they set was in fact the Rubicon River. The story of how Caesar came to power begins the day he crosses the Rubicon and enters Italy with his army. The backstory is of one family, hated enemies, and political intrigue -important elements to the dominant story of war, conquest, and power.

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Krawczyk and Novak