Character Description Dumps

'Information dump' is one of those terms that's so descriptive, I could guess its meaning right away.

We can get information dumped on us as a reader in several different ways—in backstory (what happened before the story started), research (when an author is eager to share all the work he did with the reader…even when it's not really necessary to the story), and even a descriptive dump about a character.

You know how it is…you're writing and you're probably trying to get this character c...