[Brainstorming]

[kalloway]

Welcome to the first 2015 Brainstorming Post! Feel free to use this space for any brainstorming needs you may have.

A couple of guidelines for this post--

• Everyone has a different opinion on spoilers and how long they stay spoilers before becoming public knowledge (Rosebud was his sled!) - if you are concerned with spoilers in your comments, feel free to use white-text, bumper comments, or whatever method you prefer.

• Nobody is under any obligation to use any suggestions made in this post or to credit any commenter if their suggestions are used (though perhaps if a long, productive exchange occurs, a short author's note might be nice).

• If you have any concerns with any content in the comments, please feel free to PM me.

(Basically, be good to one another. Happy Brainstorming!)

Comments

[alassenya]

From the brief description you've given, it sounds like a massive data dump and I think it's going to be a huge stopping point which might well provide backstory but will absolutely halt the action in the major arc and may well pre-empt your climax.

Can you get around it in another way? Maybe one of the other characters can comment that he has gone to that world for training (or even just that he is absent) and then you can pick up the story again when he comes back and gradually reveal what he's learned along the rest of the story.

If you really don't want to waste your world-building (and I know that feeling, believe me) you could make up a reference document and post it separately so that readers who are interested in that level of detail can read it but it won't break the main story.

[wordstitch]

I second the last thing about the reference document as a work-around. Like an appendix of sorts! You could post it as an addition after the last chapter to tie up loose ends?