Backstory: Avoid Info Dumping by Making It Essential: Part 1 — Guest: Kris Kennedy

Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author :

One aspect of writing craft that can be hard for newer writers to grasp is the importance of context. We hear about showing vs. telling or “writing tight” or leaving things in subtext, but the truth is that most writing elements don’t work if readers don’t have the context to understand what the elements mean.

Showing needs context to be powerful. Sharp dialogue filled with subtext can be just confusing or meaningless without context. We d...