What You'll Learn

In this workshop, we learn how to give our readers all the information they need to know about the world we created, without drowning them in information. Together we learn the art of subtly expositing without showing our authorial hand.

Course curriculum

    1. Full live class video and slide deck

About this course

  • $10.00
  • 1.5 hours of video content
  • Recording of live class
  • Presentation slides

Here's what students are saying:

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Really helpful and enjoyable!

Abby Roberts

Mary Robinette Kowal shared practical advice for writing exposition and was kind enough to spend additional time sharing tools for writing for ADHD.

Mary Robinette Kowal shared practical advice for writing exposition and was kind enough to spend additional time sharing tools for writing for ADHD.

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Extremely Helpful

Elyse Grasso

I love world-building, so my early drafts tend to include chunks of info-dumping. The techniques mentioned in the session have been very helpful for smoothin...

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I love world-building, so my early drafts tend to include chunks of info-dumping. The techniques mentioned in the session have been very helpful for smoothing things out. The reminder to show why a particular bit of world-building is important TO the character or characters has been especially useful.

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Avoiding Info-dumps

Judy Port

Thanks Mary. Great detail and loved the examples given. This has give me the tools and push to run through my draft using all the techniques.

Thanks Mary. Great detail and loved the examples given. This has give me the tools and push to run through my draft using all the techniques.

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Instructor

Hugo-award winning author Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of The Spare Man,The Glamourist Histories series, Ghost Talkers, and the Lady Astronaut Universe. She is part of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses and has received the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, four Hugo awards, the Nebula and Locus awards. Her stories appear in Asimov’s, Uncanny, and several Year’s Best anthologies. Mary Robinette, a professional puppeteer, also performs as a voice actor (SAG/AFTRA), recording fiction for authors including Seanan McGuire, Cory Doctorow, and John Scalzi. She lives in Nashville with her husband Rob and over a dozen manual typewriters. Visit maryrobinettekowal.com

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