Timeline for Is it okay to include world-building facts by "telling" instead of "showing"?
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| Feb 14, 2018 at 21:29 | comment | added | user16226 | @KlaraRaškaj The common rule on this is pretty simple: deliver as much of that as the story needs when the story needs it. The reader is not going to care until it makes a difference to the story. But note that the first stage of a story is "the normal world". Thus Tolkien opened by telling us about the Shire, but all the other world building stuff came later when it mattered. | |
| Feb 14, 2018 at 21:20 | comment | added | Klara Raškaj | Thanks :) I may have phrased my question wrong. I thought people wouldn't understand and would just start explaining to me that I need to show it, not explain it. I basically just wanted to know if delivering worldbuilding facts as part of a narrative was okay when there was really no better alternative. | |
| Feb 14, 2018 at 21:16 | history | answered | user16226 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |