Comments on: How to Sneak In Any Amount of Information & Maintain the Fictive Dream https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/12/how-to-sneak-in-any-amount-of-information-maintain-the-fictive-dream/ Author, Blogger, Social Media Jedi Wed, 18 Jan 2017 17:07:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Alex https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/12/how-to-sneak-in-any-amount-of-information-maintain-the-fictive-dream/#comment-62853 Wed, 18 Jan 2017 17:07:22 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=18284#comment-62853 In reply to Meghan T.

Glad it helped.

And yes, throw out any info the reader doesn’t need. They are there to be thrilled by you, not informed.

]]> By: Alex https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/12/how-to-sneak-in-any-amount-of-information-maintain-the-fictive-dream/#comment-62852 Wed, 18 Jan 2017 17:05:43 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=18284#comment-62852 In reply to sarah mussi.

Cool, that’s a great list, Sarah! A little shopping list to dig out of our pockets when we run out of ideas.

The character being hungry for an information is a simple and effective method to do this. You just have to make sure you justify WHY he wants that info so badly.

]]> By: Meghan T https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/12/how-to-sneak-in-any-amount-of-information-maintain-the-fictive-dream/#comment-62851 Wed, 18 Jan 2017 13:39:23 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=18284#comment-62851 A friend shared this post and it’s so timely because I’m on my third draft. I think I sprinkled my info sparingly in the first two drafts but I’m finding I’m putting *more* in the third. Maybe because I know more now. I’m afraid I’m going to be taking a lot of it out in the 4th!

The tip about sneaking the info in before it’s needed so it doesn’t seem constructed by the author definitely has my mind whirling and thinking about revisions. Never would have thought of that.

Thanks for the great post!

]]> By: patriciaruthsusan https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/12/how-to-sneak-in-any-amount-of-information-maintain-the-fictive-dream/#comment-62850 Wed, 18 Jan 2017 08:21:10 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=18284#comment-62850 Reblogged this on Musings on Life & Experience and commented:
A great post on inserting information in a story.

]]> By: sarah mussi https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/12/how-to-sneak-in-any-amount-of-information-maintain-the-fictive-dream/#comment-62849 Wed, 18 Jan 2017 07:45:13 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=18284#comment-62849 Great post Alex – love the tips and have used all of them at one time or another! I only differ one one point : I operate on a need-to-know basis in my fiction when the reader /or fictional character is really hungry for the info , I supply it – if they never get hungry for it I leave it out.I don’t put it in earlier. I write Children’s and YA – so some tricks I’ve used are Show and Tell in the classroom/the good old waking up from a dream sequence and trying to remember important points (can use dramatic irony here and have the reader ahead of the protagonist) / imagined conversations with others or experts(nearly always employing humour)/popular lyrics that one character has an ear-worm problem with/humour – a LOT of humour/delivering info in scenes of heightened tension – you know advert break style/ in fact copying adverts in general by making info fun/Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) style first person stories inside first person stories with a willing listener/cracking clues – so mystery whodunnit style and slipping in the info as the clues are looked for – any way that’s just some of the tricks I’ve used – keep up the goos work. Sarah

]]> By: John https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/12/how-to-sneak-in-any-amount-of-information-maintain-the-fictive-dream/#comment-62848 Wed, 18 Jan 2017 03:43:33 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=18284#comment-62848 In reply to Alex.

Cool. Thanks.

]]> By: Alex https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/12/how-to-sneak-in-any-amount-of-information-maintain-the-fictive-dream/#comment-62847 Wed, 18 Jan 2017 00:31:56 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=18284#comment-62847 In reply to John.

Thanks! Shoot me an email to alex at ridethepen dot com, and I will send the ebook to you.

]]> By: Lynette https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/12/how-to-sneak-in-any-amount-of-information-maintain-the-fictive-dream/#comment-62846 Tue, 17 Jan 2017 22:11:43 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=18284#comment-62846 In reply to wanjookim.

Me too wanjookim – I’m doing a historical fiction and have the characters talking about what has happened – but my critique readers still say it sounds like an information dump. And it’s too early for TV or internet ! Oh well, back to draft ##

]]> By: John https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/12/how-to-sneak-in-any-amount-of-information-maintain-the-fictive-dream/#comment-62845 Tue, 17 Jan 2017 21:26:06 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=18284#comment-62845 Reblogged this on Writing and other stuff and commented:
I tried getting his 44 question ebook for a while now. I keep checking my spam folder and other places in my gmail but no dice. Anyways, very good info here. Thanks and keep them coming.

]]> By: 1authorcygnetbrown https://authorkristenlamb.com/2015/12/how-to-sneak-in-any-amount-of-information-maintain-the-fictive-dream/#comment-62844 Tue, 17 Jan 2017 21:23:02 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=18284#comment-62844 One of the best compliments that I ever received about my historical fiction is that it felt to the reader as if he or she was actually watching the scene. Often I try to do scenes from the aspect of different characters and then combining their reactions through the eyes of the protagonist of the scene. It helps that I have watched a lot of drama on TV and loved drama class!

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