11 Tips to Help You Avoid Telling Writing

• Avoid exposition (Show, don’t tell!)  
• How to make your writing show rather than tell  
• Avoid giving readers a big info dump  
• How to get rid of info dumps in your story  
• Avoid ‘As you know’ Syndrome in fiction  
• Avoid dumping backfill into your story 
• Embedding exposition into your story
• To eliminate exposition in story, ‘film it’ 
• What if I edit out too much exposition?  
• When exposition is necessary in a story 
• Be aware of which dramatic mode you’re using  
• BONUS: “No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.” – Lewis Carroll