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Q&A How to handle a massive info dump post-ending?

Maybe you can interleave your 7000 throughout the story by making it a perfectly "parallel" (separated) chain of mini-chapters which are a kind of preface for each chapter of your real timeline. A...

posted 7y ago by AnoE‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T07:57:17Z (about 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar AnoE‭ · 2019-12-08T07:57:17Z (about 5 years ago)
Maybe you _can_ interleave your 7000 throughout the story by making it a perfectly "parallel" (separated) chain of mini-chapters which are a kind of preface for each chapter of your real timeline.

As you wish to avoid spoilers, make it so that it is simply unclear that the mini-chapters are the solution to the main story. Let the reader in the dark as to what your mini-chapters are actually about. Skip mentioning names, use different names, whatever.

At the end, with your great twist, maybe the reader will go back and read the mini-chapters again, now with the complete knowledge, and have many small "a-ha" moments.

I've seen several books where this has been done (not usually with a great twist, more a gradual enlightenment; but I can see it work if you get the twist just right).

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2018-02-14T15:29:33Z (almost 7 years ago)
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