It can be tempting to fill the Beginning Hook with a bunch backstory and exposition when it comes to introducing readers to your characters and settings. In the end, you need to ensure that the viewer understands everything else that’s planning to happen, correct?
Thats correct to some extent. But that doesn’t indicate you will need to dump a great deal of informative data on your reader at the same time.
Instead, I will suggest it’s triggered by something in the story present that you sprinkle in backstory and exposition only when.
The reader should only be told what they need to know the moment they need to know it in other words. Otherwise, precisely what you’re giving them is a whole passing, field, or segment of information with nothing to make those to progress within your story.
As a fast example, let’s take an examine Chapter 7 of Harry Potter while the Sorcerer’s Stone (daring stress mine)