Just a quick post to share a blog post by Michael Pryor, author of (among other things) young adult fantasy series The Laws of Magic.
Writing Disease by Michael Pryor
To this list I would like to add Expositionitis: The tendency to dump dull/irrelevant information on the poor unsuspecting reader, resulting in hideous slabs of exposition lurking between otherwise reasonable paragraphs of prose.
I know that I have suffered from most of these on more than one occasion, and I'm sure most of my other fellow writers will empathise :) I think we need to get these recognised as official medical conditions. That way us writers can use them to take time off work/uni etc to work on our novels :D
Ahh, Expositionitis, a common malady. Take two truncations and see me in the morning.
ReplyDeleteAs a patient you should be aware that this is preferable to Lexicolethargy, a complaint that causes the lack of words printed or written on the page. As a sufferer I can assure you it easily caught by finding other things to do.
Continue to exercise your creative writing and you will be immune.