Show - don't tell

Nothing kills narrative flow faster than exposition.

For any author - when you find yourself telling your reader what is happening - scrub that sentence and start again.

Let your characters display who they are by their actions, by their choices and by their own words.

Let your characters come alive and live in the imagination of your reader - do not let your writing get in the way of an immersive and emotionally rich reading experience.

Replace, "she was sad", with "she wept". The first tells, the second shows.

The reader is certainly intelligent enough to fill in that the character is sad when they read that they are weeping in a sad context.

Exposition strips the reader of the opportunity to emotionally, intellectually and imaginatively engage with the narrative.

Exposition leaves no room for the reader and is a sign of at best ignorance and at worst disrespect of the author for the reader.

Show - don't tell.