![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The world is often more interesting than what people do to each other. In fact, those scenes are often the most clichéd and boring parts of a novel, and many a novel is boring from start to finish because of that. It also helps to have a narrator that is also a character, one way or another, that likes to explain things or talk about non-human actors in the story, like landscape and technologies and so on.Īs you probably know, when people speak of expository lumps, or worse, “info dumps,” I feel they are bad readers who aren’t getting it, who are in effect being narcissistic, as if nothing could be interesting but dramatized scenes about people interacting. So it helps to pick a cast of characters that do all kinds of different things. Hopefully the story will reveal a lot of the parts of the world. I focus on the characters and let the world-building take care of itself. How did you balance world building with keeping focus on your characters? The novel presents an impressive depiction of a future New York City, but characters are all totally relatable. ![]()
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