SRW #5: Exposition

By request, from Guy.

Stover's Rule of Writing #5: Exposition

First, a reminder of something that should be obvious but sometimes isn't:

Exposition is the delivery of information to the reader. Period.

So is every other element of writing.

Deliver information is the only thing your language on the page does. The only thing it can do. Are you with me? The most in-your-face action-packed-thrillaminnit scene is, at its core, exposition . . . it's just a bit more vivid than the narrative elements we u...