How Over-Explaining Will Kill Your Novel

By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy

Writers have trust issues sometimes. We worry whether or not our readers will get what we're trying to do. Will they spot that oh-so-subtle hint in chapter three? Will they get the subtext between the romantic leads in scene five? Is the protagonist’s backstory clear or should we throw in a flashback that explains it?

We sometimes worry so much that readers might miss something, we end up shoving the story right down their throats.

And that's bad.
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