Corty
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Hello there!
General Kenobi. I was wondering where to put this topic but in the end, It landed here. If it is not the ideal place, sorry.
I'm in the middle of writing my current fantasy story, and the world the story is placed in has an established history, systems, etc. At least in my head, as I dislike info dumping at every chapter. I like writing in a way that things get introduced, and explained while the characters interact with them and with the world.
But I also noticed that some readers would conclude things and draw incorrect assumptions of future things that would be explained later. To avoid this, I had an idea to do a kind of "codex chapter" as an extra. Small, short chapters where I explain stuff, concepts, characters, beasts, whatever that comes to mind, in an in-story, historian/chronicler style. The "character" would only know things that an outsider would understand in the world to avoid possible spoilers related to the main characters.
I made a mock-up image that I would also include in the chapters:
The chapter would be written out then like a biography or some kind of codex page or index page or whatnot, that way the story would go forward unimpeded and I could explain in an extra chapter how the magic vending machine came to existence and who invented it in an extra chapter.
As an author/reader, does this sound to you valid or would it be annoying and break up the pace?
PS: I know I have a typo in the name at the bottom right corner compared to the front page of the book. I noticed it after uploading, will fix it if I post it in my story.
I'm in the middle of writing my current fantasy story, and the world the story is placed in has an established history, systems, etc. At least in my head, as I dislike info dumping at every chapter. I like writing in a way that things get introduced, and explained while the characters interact with them and with the world.
But I also noticed that some readers would conclude things and draw incorrect assumptions of future things that would be explained later. To avoid this, I had an idea to do a kind of "codex chapter" as an extra. Small, short chapters where I explain stuff, concepts, characters, beasts, whatever that comes to mind, in an in-story, historian/chronicler style. The "character" would only know things that an outsider would understand in the world to avoid possible spoilers related to the main characters.
I made a mock-up image that I would also include in the chapters:
The chapter would be written out then like a biography or some kind of codex page or index page or whatnot, that way the story would go forward unimpeded and I could explain in an extra chapter how the magic vending machine came to existence and who invented it in an extra chapter.
As an author/reader, does this sound to you valid or would it be annoying and break up the pace?
PS: I know I have a typo in the name at the bottom right corner compared to the front page of the book. I noticed it after uploading, will fix it if I post it in my story.
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