Eat too much candy last night? Well there is also such a thing as feeding too much exposition to an audience and thereby creating the same situation with their “reader’s stomach.” In this episode we discuss the all important subject of exposition. How much is too much? Do we assume that our audience is well versed in the strange world we have created or do we explain it down to the most minute detail. Also…it’s Halloween…or at least it was yesterday. We discuss our favorite scary things from our childhood.
Roger Colby is a novelist and teacher who has taught English for nearly two decades. He is also an avid reader of science fiction who feels, like many other sci-fi readers, that he has read everything. He writes science fiction for the reader who is looking for the next best thing, something to excite them into reading again. This blog is his journey as a writer and his musings about writing. He also edits manuscripts for a fee and is an expert at helping you reach your full potential as a writer.
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Eat too much candy last night? Well there is also such a thing as feeding too much exposition to an audience and thereby creating the same situation with their “reader’s stomach.” In this episode we discuss the all important subject of exposition. How much is too much? Do we assume that our audience is well versed in the strange world we have created or do we explain it down to the most minute detail. Also…it’s Halloween…or at least it was yesterday. We discuss our favorite scary things from our childhood.
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