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Hello loves, and welcome back! Time to discuss one of my favorite things to rant about!
Info dumping.
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DUN DUN DUUUUN
But seriously. We've all struggled with this infamous problem. How can you describe your world and its intricacies without dropping a crap ton of information on your reader? And whyisno one ever pleased with your results?
Quite simply, it's because there's no 'right' and 'wrong' to literature. If anyone ever tells you otherwise, just ignore them. All those things that you've been told you can never ever ever ever ever ever do, you'll most likely find in published fiction. Maybe even in the greats! Let's face it, if you wrote your first chapter like Chapter One of The Hobbit is written, the critics would have your head for info dumping. Yet this is arguably the most famous piece of high fantasy ever written. How does that work?
Everyone has their preferences, and because of how much high fantasy has pushed the bounds of its genre, there are many different styles. I personally am the type of writer that likes to throw you right into everything and hope you figure things about by context clues (*Amber silently sobs in the corner*). Many of you could be the type to start your story off by a brief, 2,000 word history of your world. If you asked me to critique your work, I'd tell you I got bored right around the family tree of the eighth king of the elfish realm of D'ai'yan'di. If I asked you to critique mine, you'd join Amber over there and demand to know what the heckfire I think I'm doing.
But if we did that, we'd both be wrong!
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