I’m teaching an exposition workshop June 9th 6:30 pm at Rediscovered Bookshop as part of Boise’s Novel Orchard group.
Here is a snippet from the handout.
Information the character already knows or should know, shouldn’t be told to the reader. She took every form of martial arts? Great. We will see that as she fights. She can tell that to someone who questions her. She can’t tell us and another character shouldn’t tell her either. “Well you know with your seven different black belts and ability to bench press 200 pounds, I figured you could take care of yourself.” WRONG.
Come to the class and I’ll clue you into better ways of giving information to the reader that doesn’t slow the pacing and doesn’t sound unrealistic.
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