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I don't know if there's a term for it, but I call these things 'explainers.' I make it my mission to remove all my explainers and see if the story can stand up without them. It usually can. But I like the term 'Ugh' too.

The thing with infodumps is that sometimes the actual information is needed, and just needs to be rewritten as dialog, or maybe presented later, not as backstory. In my case, it is all senseless crap. Or maybe it once had potential to be...

I slash through my text for cutting out, if printed out, or highlight if onscreen, and write CUT in the margin, just so it's clear to me.

I'm going with a Sir Terry Pratchett quote, "The first draft is just you telling yourself the story." We all dream of writing that perfect first draft, but the more books I write, I find it's impossible. I need multiple drafts until I've shaped...

“The best thing about rock bottom is the rock part. You discover the solid bit of you. The bit that can't be broken down further. The thing that you might sentimentally call a soul. At our lowest we find the solid ground of our foundation. And we...

A line is a dot that went for a walk. Paul Klee

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. Salvador Dali

A tech glitch...the link didn't work for me, but googling did. *shrug* Oh, one of our Pop Up guests won this too. I remember critiquing his beginning before he won, I knew him on Australian forum and years later learned he's my best friend's...

If you have a finished manuscript of an adventure type then this is a good contest for you. Last year it looks like they considered more historical and magic realism sort of adventures. A friend won it with her family story of evading Japanese...

I use a thesaurus everyday and if I'm not familiar with a word, I look it up in the dictionary. So what you're doing is totally normal :)

Makes total sense! I guess I'll be reading the dictionary for descriptives to start with then so that I can give my proposal the incendiary vibe it's going to need!