Hey guys. I'm just working on my story (YAY!), and at the moment I'm trying to introduce what I like to call a "hidden character" - basically a character who will show up later in the book but gets almost a cameo appearance at the moment. I don't want to draw too much attention to him, but I want the reader to be able to go back and realize, "Oh, hey. That's the guy from that one part later on."
How do I plan on doing this? Well... Instead of devoting several sentences to physical appearance (and by that I mean what the character's doing, not individual details), I'm just going to include him in a sort of scan of the scene. I'll pick him out of the crowd, but at the most he'll get two sentences. Then he'll fade into the reader's memory, waiting to reemerge later on...
*ahem* Anyway. Sound like a good plan to you guys? What are some ways you introduce characters who don't have a major part until later? Do you try to keep them inconspicuous, or does that just add to the "obvious" factor?
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