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Template of Ringworld Ch 1

1. Backstory: 300 words 8%
2. Character Development: 900 words 30%
3. Scene Setting: 500 words 15%
4. Exposition that moves the story: 500 words 15%
5. Dialogue that moves the story: 1000 words 30%
6. Foreshadowing: 100 Words 2%


Backstory:
"It's been a long time since college. You had a commercial empire once, didn't you? What we like to call 'known space' was just a part of it. We know the Trinocs bought from you, and we didn't meet the Trinocs until twenty years ago."
"Yes, we dealt with the Trinocs. Largely through robots, as I recall."
"You had a business empire thousands of years old, at least, and scores of light years across, at least. And then you left, all of you. You left it all behind. Why?"
"Can this have been forgotten? We fled the explosion of the galactic core!"

Character Development:
It occurred to him then that every city in the world had slidewalks, and they all moved at ten miles per hour. The thought was intolerable. Not new; just intolerable.
The sight of the puppeteer had jarred loose a whole atticful of dusty memories.Mixed with data on the puppeteers and their commercial empire... studied the puppeteers during a college course, then forgotten about them for one hundred and eighty years.

Scene Setting:
Louis Wu followed the puppeteer out of the booth and into the dim, luxurious interior of a restaurant. He recognized the place by the black and gold decor and the space wasteful horseshoe booths. Krushenko's, in New York. Incredulous whispers followed in the path of the puppeteer. A human headwaiter, imperturbable as a robot, led them to a table One of the chairs had been removed at the table and been replaced by a big square pillow, which the alien placed between hip and hind hoof as it sat down.


Exposition that moves the story:
Louis's tequila tried to go down the wrong way. At the table behind the puppeteer, four walls of orange fur were each and every one a Kzin; and as the puppeteer spoke, they all turned with their needle teeth bared. It looked like a smile, but on a Kzin that rictus is not a smile.

Dialogue that moves the story:
"You won't tell me what it is you intend to explore," said Louis. "Will you tell me where it is?"
"It is two hundred light years from here in the direction of the lesser cloud."
"But it would take us nearly two years to get there at hyperdrive speeds."

Foreshadowing:
"Looks like a star with a hoop around it," said Louis. "What is it?"