
Originally Posted by
RedSpeedo
Too much text. And too didactic of a style. Do we need to know that relocating them to the prison planet was more cost effective than an other solution? It adds absolutely nothing but boring text to the story. You should make the aliens give the backstory through the dialog and let the reader piece the puzzle, like through two mini-humans talking for example:
- And can you tell me why the hell we ended up on this goddamned planet? Didn’t Governor Trumbull plan to relocate us to the Colony?
- Dude, Trumbull is a pushover. You know how cheap the Space Ministry is. They wanted to save a couple of zulecks.
Boom! This way, you introduced a weak governor, a Colony that seems a better place than the prison planet, a cheapo and possibly corrupt administration, a fictitious currency...
Storytelling brah. I thought you wrote for In Living Color.