by Terra Caldwell | Aug 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Infodumping In certain genres, infodumping is completely okay. Doorstopper/epic fantasies and science fiction (especially hard science fiction) rely on a certain amount of infodumping and the like to relay the details of their worlds to their readers, and readers...
by Terra Caldwell | Aug 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Whenever we use an adverb related to time,* we are telling. This isn’t always bad, and it’s certainly unavoidable. You want to mention time in your writing. Some sense of time can ground a person into a story, especially if the story plays with time, or...
by Terra Caldwell | Aug 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Another way that people tell their stories instead of showing them is through the use of filter words, especially in first person writing. A filter word is a word such as heard, saw, felt, knew, thought, realized, etc. If you’re unsure why these are not wise to...
