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HOW TO SPRINKLE BACKGROUND INFO INTO YOUR WIP

By: Ava Jae

Once upon a time I wrote a post on how to avoid writing info dumps, and while I discussed the importance of sprinkling information gradually over the course of a MS, I didn’t really cover the how as far as spreading out said information goes.

So here we are.

Revealing history and/or background information in your WIP can be tricky—if you reveal too much at once, it’s an info dump, but if you don’t reveal enough, readers may be left with a lot of questions, or the world of your novel may come off as flat and unfinished. The right amount is somewhere in between, and oftentimes it takes quite a bit of tweaking to get it right.

The good news is there are several methods that you can use to sprinkle in whatever information you need to convey without dumping it all at once:

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Read the full article HERE!

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1. Nominalized Verbs http://ow.ly/uOVLH Daily Writing Tips
2. Michael K. Reynolds offers encouragement for those times when you want to give up. @ M_K_Reynolds http://bit.ly/1idGoRR  #SeriouslyWrite
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9. All You Need to Know About Using Exclusivity for Better Product Launches : @ProBlogger http://ow.ly/uQv2f
10. How to Tell a Seductive Story - Copyblogger http://ow.ly/uQv6K
11. What’s wrong with buying your way onto the bestseller list? | The Passive Voice |  http://ow.ly/uQvlz
12. BookMarketingBuzzBlog: Why Your Book Marketing Emails Fail http://ow.ly/uQvnd
13. Writer Unboxed » Free the Writers! (From Each Other) http://ow.ly/uQvoJ
14. Sherlock Holmes vs. C. August Dupin: 4 Ways to Improve Your Writing - Helping Writers Become Authors http://ow.ly/uQvtR
15. How I Assembled My Own Self-Publishing Team by Tatiana Boncompagni — The Book Designer http://ow.ly/uQvwJ
16. Writability: How to Sprinkle Background Info into Your WIP http://ow.ly/uQvzs

Happy writing and running, Kathy