Sunday, November 07, 2010
When is it Okay?
I've read a couple of books lately where there are info dumps in the first two chapters. One, a very popular book, had so much back story in the first two chapters I was wondering when the story would start.
In my critique groups this was one of the biggest no-no's, but I see this happening in books all the time.
So when is it okay?
This is a picture of Trixie. She came up from West Virginia on the day she was supposed to be euthanized. This week she got a new family to love. Yay Trixie!
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IT seems these days that few big publishing houses care about info dumps. They are becoming so common in modern books, yet they trouble me. Maybe that's part of the reason I don't read a lot of recently released books.
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