Androxine Vortex
Archmage
I've heard many people on this forum say "show don't tell" when it comes to describing things and giving detail. I've noticed that in my stories I tent to "tell" a lot. I will be in the middle of telling the actual story and then I will have to kind of pull-over and give the reader some background info. Not necessarily an info-dump but it never looks good when I go back and reread it. But there are some parts in books where it seems you have to give the reader some background info that could be crucial to understand. Anyone care to help me out with this and better explain it to me?