Anders Ämting
Auror
So in my new story, the main character thinks she's a normal teenager, but then gets thrown into a hidden world of magic. Turns out she has magic powers, her sister is an ex-sorceress, etc.
Now, it seems to me that the natural thing for my MC to do is to demand the sister tell her exactly everything about what's going on. Because, of course, that's what I would have done. But I don't want the sister to just sit down and spend like a whole page explaining everything about the magical society in one sitting, because then it looks like I'm just dumping exposition. So I try to think of a way to break it up - the sister doesn't want to confuse the MC with too much information right away, and there are parts she doesn't understand either and need to research. But now that feels kinda like a lame excuse for me to make everything arbitrarily mysterious.
How would you guys deal with this?
Now, it seems to me that the natural thing for my MC to do is to demand the sister tell her exactly everything about what's going on. Because, of course, that's what I would have done. But I don't want the sister to just sit down and spend like a whole page explaining everything about the magical society in one sitting, because then it looks like I'm just dumping exposition. So I try to think of a way to break it up - the sister doesn't want to confuse the MC with too much information right away, and there are parts she doesn't understand either and need to research. But now that feels kinda like a lame excuse for me to make everything arbitrarily mysterious.
How would you guys deal with this?