I'm struggling in terms of too much expository versus too vague/not enough info for the reader. The advice I'm given mostly is "trust the reader,"...
Hi there, I have recently made the decision to write a sci-fi story and started by creating the world first, in which several stories can take...
TV Tropes refers to "As You Know" exposition as information shoehorned into dialogue for the audiences' benefit, even though characters talking...
Maybe this is a common problem? Maybe not. I realize this may be a challenge without me posting excerpts, but please bear with me. :cool: In a...
I hear it all the time. Never start with exposition, you'll bore the reader. Okay, but, when you're story has had a lot of build up and what came...
I've had an idea in my head for a story, it's aimed at older children really but I want it to also appeal to Adults in a similar way to the Disney...
In the story I'm currently writing, I've had a mysterious group of soldiers attack a peaceful settlement for seemingly no reason. The survivors...
Hey writing gang! Looking for some tips here with a WIP I plan to return to after a VERY long time of not touching it. It's a scifi story with a...
Imagine a book about a computer hacker who has to overcome his fear of relying on others to build a team and take down a corrupt bank before they...
Basically, one of the most common criticisms on my work I get is the quick pacing. Scenes just change way too quickly. It's something I'm working...
I'm a novice writer, and I'm a little over 20,000 words into my book, which is a semi realistic sci-fi and while I haven't had a ton of story...
So I have this portion in my book I'm putting on pause. While it's not a typical journey from one place to the next I want to put in a couple of...
Besides writing, one of my hobbies is video games. I'm in the middle of my first major project and now that all of the mechanics and most of the...
I'd say for me it's an exact balance between detail, dialogue, and inner thoughts. What about everyone else here? Sometimes I read other books...
Seriously this is some strange elixer recipe to me. I feel there are times where I'm overly reliant on dialogue to convey portions of the...
I've been writing something in First Person, which works very well for the story as a whole, but there was something that I just didn't like about...
Like many, I suspect, I struggle with exposition. It's not something I naturally write or, if truth be known, even know how to write. I write...
Some insights on plotting vs characterisation by M.Harold Page, writing on Charles Stross's blog:...
This regards my novel. I have a habit of promoting secondary characters to viewpoint characters, and I just did it again. Mr. Exposition here has...
So, I'm trying rather hard to write a fantasy, but for the plot to make any kind of sense the reader will likely need to know quite a bit about...
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