TFTSP: Epigraphs
Posted on: June 11, 2024
Tips From the Slush Pile!
Y’all. You know how I feel about Prologues, right? That they’re usually an excuse to infodump and don’t actually benefit the story. Just got a submission that not only has an Prologue but an Epigraph. **Now with more infodumping!** Woot. Please do not do this to me. I want to live to see grandchildren but y’all are giving me such gray hair.
(For those who don’t know, infodumping is when you dump all the story or world-building details instead of letting them occur organically as the story unfolds. This is typically the sign of a new writer who hasn’t learned how to work these details into the narrative. Or who had an English teacher that made them read only the Classics where this sort of writing was acceptable.)
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