{"id":822,"date":"2018-04-23T22:49:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T02:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?p=822"},"modified":"2018-05-27T14:00:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T18:00:25","slug":"infodump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"Infodump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?p=816\">&lt;&#8211;Previous Comic<\/a> \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?p=828\">Next Comic&#8211;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-823\" src=\"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/issue83.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/issue83.jpg 829w, https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/issue83-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/issue83-768x691.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?p=816\">&lt;&#8211;Previous Comic<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?p=828\">Next Comic&#8211;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I promise, your backstory is probably fascinating! But it is not reasonable to ask your reader to sit there and let you explain it to them before it&#8217;s relevant to any characters or plot elements that they care about. Blaming the reader for impatience isn&#8217;t practical. It&#8217;s not their job to humor you, and you shouldn&#8217;t want to be humored. You&#8217;re writing this story for them, to bring them into a world you made and to make them care about the people in your world. Don&#8217;t reject feedback like &#8220;You infodumped and I zoned out.&#8221; It&#8217;s not that your information isn&#8217;t important. It&#8217;s that the way you&#8217;re giving it to us is inaccessible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;&#8211;Previous Comic \u00a0 Next Comic&#8211;&gt; &lt;&#8211;Previous Comic\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Next Comic&#8211;&gt; I promise, your backstory is probably fascinating! But it is not reasonable to ask your reader to sit there and let you explain it to them before it&#8217;s relevant to any characters or plot elements that they care about. Blaming the reader for impatience isn&#8217;t practical. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}