How Can You Avoid Info Dumping? | Ep. 191 | The Merry Writer Podcast

EPISODE SHOW NOTES

Info dumping can really slow down the pace of your story, can annoy many readers and even have them skipping over chunks of your work. So what can you do to stop info dumping? Today, Ari and Rachel tackle this issue with some suggestions.

In this episode, we cover:

• What is Info Dumping
• While drafting
• Deal with it in the editing phase not the drafting phase
• Learn your temptations
• Areas where info dumping usually occurs
• Ask yourself: does it matter
• Scale back
• When Info Dumps can work

As always, thanks for listening, and let us know your thoughts on this topic in the comments below.

 

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CREDITS

Hosts

Ari Meghlen & Rachel Poli

Music

Intro & Outro – “Inspired” composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of http://www.incompetech.com | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0

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