{"id":844178,"date":"2025-10-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/?p=844178"},"modified":"2025-10-16T16:25:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:25:28","slug":"glancing-sideways-looking-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/glancing-sideways-looking-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Glancing sideways, looking straight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This month, as you know, we\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/events\/build-your-book\/\">Build-A-Booking<\/a>: considering everything to do with plot and aiming to get our novel outlines in p-p-perfect shape before November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And? For a lot of writers, there\u2019s a log that lies across the path to a perfect plot. The name of that log is World Building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now yes, a large proportion of you will be thinking, \u201cAh,hey ho, this email doesn\u2019t apply to me, because my book is perfectly grounded in the Real World. My dragon count is zero. There are no badass fairies having raunchy sex with were-creatures. I also have no star-fleets in battle, no wormholes in space, no complicated explanations about the gaseous mix in my atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But we all have to world build.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, your world may operate according to normal rules of physics and technology, but you may still need to explain to the reader:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Your character\u2019s world of work: a hospital, a spy agency, a marketing firm, a special forces unit<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Your character\u2019s key relationships: mother, father, brother, sister, kids, best friends<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Important bits of backstory, not just for your main character but for (say) a best friend, who will end up betraying your character in Chapter xx because of the thing that happened when she and your character were both at university.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The central setting for your book. Even if that\u2019s somewhere as recognisable as Manhattan, there\u2019ll still be a lot to explain if your book involves chases through the subway system, the currency trading system on Wall Street, or how an escort agency operates from the inside.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And all authors have a tendency to think like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Well, gosh, I do need to explain the intricacies of the subway system and Rosa\u2019s betrayal in Chapter xx is going to make no sense unless I reveal the Affair of the Stolen Clock in her university days, so what I\u2019ll do is just set my story down for a moment, while I do my spadework on those important topics. Then, when we get going again, Readers Will Rejoice, because my subway chase is cool and Rosa\u2019s betrayal will be surprising but also kinda logical at the same time<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the story gets set down for a page or four. Yet, strange to say, when the author picks it up again, it\u2019s holding many fewer readers than it was before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s the World-Building Paradox, my friend. Readers buy your book because of the cool new world you offer them. They want to know about the rules of that new world (magic, or spaceships, or just subway tunnels &amp; stolen clocks.) But if you spend time doing what the reader has pretty much asked you to do, the reader flounces off, skirts swishing in disapproval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The solution?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The solution is just what you think it is: you don\u2019t set down your story. But you do create the world the reader wants to inhabit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So let\u2019s say your character is living on a planet, where the atmosphere has large amounts of methane and can easily kill his poor little humanoid self. Here are two options for addressing that fact:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Long essay on origin, chemical structure and medical effects of methane, followed by story.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Your character really wants to itch his nose, but can\u2019t do so without removing his helmet.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s pretty obvious that the second option is the way to go. You will talk less about methane that way, but you\u2019ll tell the reader what they need and want to know. And if the reader cares about your character, then, weirdly enough, they also care about that itchy nose. The fact that the character has a thwarted want, no matter how tiny, is enough to motivate the reader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So: <strong>lead with character<\/strong> \u2013 that\u2019s <strong>rule #1<\/strong>. (And by the way, that\u2019s why this email is called \u2018Glancing sideways, looking straight\u2019. You focus always on character \u2013 that\u2019s the straight ahead bit, the narrow path of story proper. But as you\u2019re ploughing forwards, you can glance to the side now and again. That\u2019s the world-building essential to your task &#8211; but you never drop the forward motion.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>R<strong>ule #2<\/strong> chases along right behind the first, and it\u2019s this: <strong>do less than you think is necessary. The reader won\u2019t care.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes the info-dumping can be brief in the extreme. For example, in one of my books, there was an important sequence involving a south Wales cave. I didn\u2019t want readers to feel that I was just springing something on them unannounced \u2013 that feels a bit cheaty. Nor could I just assume that readers just knew enough about the geology of Wales to know there were caves. So, many chapters earlier, I had a secondary character say, \u2018<em>Those monks. The ones with a brewing licence. They\u2019re up in the Beacons somewhere. Up the valley from that caving place.<\/em>\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s it. Caving established. World built enough for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you want one more rule? Or maybe just a teeny-weeny guideline? OK:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rule #3<\/strong>, that\u2019s maybe more of a Guideline: \u201c<strong>Deliver information <u>after<\/u> the reader cries out for it.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So take that caving issue again. Fiona (who has already figured things out) locates the entrance to a previously unknown cave system. That cave system probably holds the answer to a missing persons case from years before. Fiona has already clocked that, too. Finally, she shows the cave entrance to her superior officer. They sit on a rock and chat:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[Fiona says,] \u2018The main cave there is called Dan-yr-Ogof. You want to guess how far it extends underground?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Burnett shakes his head. \u2018I expect you\u2019re about to tell me.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2018Seventeen kilometres. Eleven miles. One of the main explorers of that system reckons the whole thing will run ninety miles once it\u2019s fully mapped.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2018You\u2019re saying this . . .&nbsp; this . . . tunnel here connects with Dan-yr-Ogof?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I shake my head. \u2018Maybe, I\u2019ve no idea. But this whole area is hollow with caves. Ogof Draenen measures seventy undergound kilometres. Ogof Ffynnon Ddu runs to almost sixty. Agen Allwedd runs to over thirty. And there are dozens more as well, a whole sweep of them. The whole southern edge of the Brecon Beacons and Black Mountains. The chain runs all the way to Abergavenny. Fifty or sixty caves easily and that\u2019s only the ones we know about.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Burnett joins me on the scree. Says, \u2018Fuck.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Says, \u2018Times like this, I\u2019d kill for a cigarette.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I tell him he doesn\u2019t have to kill anyone. Also\u2014and this is really Murder Planning 1.01\u2014he shouldn\u2019t announce his intentions beforehand, particularly to a detective sergeant whose specialism is in major crime<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All this information is delivered after they\u2019ve found the cave, after Burnett orders Fiona to explore the first few yards of it, after she\u2019s crawled into the tunnel, banged her head and been shocked by the deep darkness of this new world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The information is also delivered after Fiona has connected the cave\u2019s existence to the missing persons case. So we\u2019ve had some real action, a real (physical, visceral) entrance into this new world, and a sense that this place is strongly connected to a core story thread in the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By this point, the reader is totally sold. \u201cYes, jeepers, caves are important! I want to know more about caves, I can see they\u2019re going to play a huge role in what follows.\u201d So then Fiona tells the reader, in effect, \u201cThere are lots of caves in south Wales and some of them are really, really big.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That settles the reader for now. It gives a sense of the scale of what might lie ahead \u2013 and also confirms that the author isn\u2019t tricking. Caves are a perfectly legitimate element in a mystery story set in that particular part of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notice that there\u2019s still a lot that I haven\u2019t said. What does a cave look like inside? How are they formed? Can you get large bodies of water inside a cave? All that will matter a bit further on into the story, but those bits of information are delivered later, when they\u2019re needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Log cleared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lead with character. Do less than you think is necessary. Bring information to the reader only once the reader is thirsting for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s true for books about Manhattan or Welsh caves or busy hospitals. It\u2019s also true for books about raunchy fairies, star-fleet battles or grumpy dragons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FEEDBACK FRIDAY \/ Info Dumps<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OK, I want you to find a place in your book where you have an <strong>info dump<\/strong> \u2013 much like my material on caving above. My extract above was about 200 words, but only about 150 words had to do with caves, rather than murder planning. So look for an extract of about <strong>200-250 words<\/strong>, but also give us <strong>plenty of context<\/strong> that introduces your passage. In that little caving scene, it really mattered that the info came after Fiona had physically been inside the cave (albeit only a very short way.) So give us enough to understand how the information you\u2019re giving us connects to the broader story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You got that? You got it. Ready \u2013 GO. Log in and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/myjericho.jerichowriters.com\/forums\/forum\/feedback-friday\/17-october-2025-info-dumps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">share your work on Townhouse<\/a><\/strong> when you&#8217;re ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Til soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, as you know, we\u2019re Build-A-Booking: considering everything to do with plot and aiming to get our novel outlines in p-p-perfect shape before November. And? 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