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: How do I add technical exposition in my fiction novel? I have written a fiction novel about an adolescent who commits suicide. The story explores the childhood abuse from her father that pushed
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: How to make "new apprentice" type info-dump less boring I'm writing a story wherein a teenager X gets suddenly and involuntarily enlisted in an sci-fi army. I need to explain certain technology
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: Does a response agree or disagree with points they didn't address? Math teacher here. The problem is that I'm teaching a course where students are being asked to write online and then respond
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: How to maximize reader comprehension if worldbuilding is complicated? Parts of my worldbuilding are critical to the plot. If readers don't understand the world, they won't understand the stakes
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: Setting exposition vs scene descriptions If my main character goes to a new building – let's say in the beggining of a short story – and I describe the facade and the design of the building,
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: How to prevent secondary characters stealing protagonist role when using exposition via dialogue? Due to the evolution of modern media I prefer to depend on exposition through dialogue. I try
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: Describing the taste of food I’m asking about this not because I have a tendency to do so myself, but rather because I find it unusually aggravating when I come across it in other people’s
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: Avoiding info-dumps when writing about amnesiacs In the story I'm writing one character suffers from amnesia as a result of an accident. I want another character, with whom they were in love,
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: Should I explain the reasons for gaslighting? I have an ambiguous script situation, 2 co-protagonists begin gaslighting the MC. They each have ulterior motives which they don't say. The reader
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: Should I "tell" my exposition or give it through dialogue? When my work was being critiqued, one of the critics said that the exposition given away in my dialogue was forced and unnatural.
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: Protagonist constantly has to have long words explained to her. Will this get tedious? A while back, I redrafted my NaNoWriMo 2017 story, but it still needs another draft. This question is about
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: Scene & Sequel in exposition or world building I have been trying to practice the scene and sequel structure, including the use of MRUs and I find it alternately natural and frustrating. I
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: When should a supporting character be scrapped? So I'm wondering if this supporting character, who I use for exposition purposes, can be made more vital in some way. When does a supporting character
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: In a first-person web novel, how to make the reader aware of a motivator the POV is unaware of? In my novel, the MC (and POV character) spares an enemy. He spared the enemy because he empathized/identified
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: Am I using too much exposition here? Lillia usually arrived to school on her own. The other girls from her hometown got a later train more often than not. She purposefully arrived
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: Exposition: Talking Animals - How do I Reveal This to the Reader? I'm writing a book series where most of the cast are highly anthropomorphized animals (or in some cases mythological creatures).
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: Writing a character who is an expert in something that I can't know I'm writing a story where the main character comes back from the dead. The character is fully lucid, knowledgeable and articulate
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: Breaking up a talky piece of writing Dialogue is my favorite thing to write. I tend to use a lot of dialogue in my writing, which sometimes results in long, talky passages -- a bit similar
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: Using questions in dialog to facilitate exposition What are the guidelines on using questions in dialog (between ignorant characters) to expose setting and backstory? A few exchanges between my
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: Inside your character's head - when does it become too much? I've read that leaving your character alone for too long can spell death for your novel. That you should put them out there in
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: How to fill up novels in the series after the first one? I have an idea for a novel series that I want to write. I'm into the first one, and I've got a pretty good idea of all that I
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: Should mystery stories have resolutions? I'm working on the finishing touches of a story that has as part of the plot a possibly-supernatural mystery. I'm feeling rather nervous about the whole
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: How to expose a reader to the rules of a fantastical world? I am currently in the process of re-writing my play Black Tape as a novel. Because of the change in format, more needs to simply
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: How can I describe technology while avoiding problems with scaling? Worldbuilding chat has pointed me to this stack because it's less about defining the technology and more about how to express
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: How do I decide whether to answer questions, or leave them unexplained? At first glance, the question may be subjective, but let me provide a specific example: A story I'm self-editing takes
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: How early in the narrative should I start my book? I've just recently finished building the setting and plot of a fantasy coming-of-age story. I'm happy with the way it turned out; the character
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: How much detail should I go into for a character taking advantage of physics expertise? Let's imagine a book where my character holds the power of light. Reason being, everyone in his country
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: My premise suggests a LOT more history than I want in my book I'm writing a fantasy story in which there is a contemporary earth (our earth) and a secondary world. Due to certain reasons
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: How do I describe Newtonian physics to the reader in a way that is realistic yet not too complex? I have a story where I adhere strongly to plausible physics for space combat (some behind-the-scenes
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: My Main Characters Expostion Peaks at a Point, but How? My book starts at the end of my main characters research on a topic. And I wanted to give a feeling of him being neck deep in research.
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: How do I write about nerdy concepts without sounding like a tryhard? How would one express nerdy gobbledygook without sounding like a technical tryhard? For instance, if I were to explain the
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: How to avoid the 'magic explanation' info dump in Fantasy novels In the second book of his Inheritence Cycle, Christopher Paolini makes the grievous error of landing his main character in the
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: My story moves too fast I finally sat down and wrote the first chapter of my planned novel. Reading back through it, I realized that there is so much that happens in only 2000 words. People
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: Dealing with Extreme Distances - Space Travel I know, you can go the Star Wars/Star Trek "hand wave" route and make it seem like everything is a few minutes or hours away, but... How do I
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: How to show that something is different than in real life? I'm writing fiction set in the near future (~15-20 years). The world is still mostly the same and thus familiar to the reader, but
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: How should I introduce new and complex technologies or tools? I'm writing a Science Fiction book. While this book doesn't push reality very far, there are some new technologies and tools that
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: Too much exposition in my full-length play: how to fix it? Dear Writers & Playwrights; I'm working on my first full-length play. In workshops, the feedback is consistently, "Too much exposition."
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: How Much Exposition is Too Much Exposition I am in the process of figuring out how to write a mostly autobiographical piece (maybe, eventually, novel) about my experiences related to dancing
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: How do I avoid a “mid-story info dump?†I am revising the manuscript for a novel. About a third into the story, a major turning point occurs when the main character (through whom the reader
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: Expositing a lack of racial difference I have a story set in a fantasy-Africa, in which the protagonist must make her way from her rural home to a coastal city in order to seek medical treatment
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