Muse & the Marketplace 2019

In writing fiction, exposition can be useful in providing the reader with necessary character description and additional contextualizing information. Sometimes, though, too much exposition (or too little) can alter how the reader engages with the story overall.  

In this session, we’ll look at examples from short fiction and novel excerpts, and study how each writer “reveals" exposition. We’ll focus on how such information can be withheld to produce narrative momentum in the current, presented action, and we’ll also look at how explicit information might be, instead, presented implicitly, thereby creating more tension in the story.