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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/37001
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

I'm currently struggling to write the first portion of my science fiction story that involves two characters traveling, and I was wondering if you guys had any writing resources to recommend. My goal is to use the journey as a way for the reader to get immersed in to the world I have created, where the creatures and landscape is unlike our own. However, the characters who are traveling just met and one of them is injured as well as hallucinating, so I don't want to leave out character development and backstory. I also don't want to throw too much at the reader, but at the same time there's so much information I want to convey. Does anybody have any tips? I've been told that writers shouldn't spend too much time writing about the journey when the destination is more important, but I see it as an opportunity to show the world building I've created as well as the characters' personalities as they interact with the environment.

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