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1/ Today I want to talk abt an issue that *mostly* plagues SFF authors, but that also has a tendency to creep into character-driven lit fic and women's fic, too. Ready? Here it is: Too much backstory and/or world-building at the start of your book. Let's unpack...
2/ Regardless of genre, you'll tell me that the info you're delivering abt MC or world's history is essential to understanding the primary conflict. And what I'm going to tell you is, you're probably wrong.
3/ Conflict structures are a lot like themes, in the sense that we can frame them in very general terms: MC desires X. [Thing/Person] prevents MC from obtaining X. If MC fails to obtain X, [bad stuff]. That's a primary conflict, my friends. We don't need detail to understand it.
