My Favorite Way to Fix Info Dumping In a Novel

Are you looking for a way to fix info dumping in your story? Here are two of my favorite character types to help with just that!
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0:00 - Intro
2:19 - Exposition Characters
3:14 Window Characters

[@skullgarden2417]

I think this is a good time for flashbacks too. That’s literally the whole point of a flashback.

[@AdamSanford]

In the novel "Fan Mail" by Ronald Munson, an "Eliza" computer program serves as the window character for the villain. Eliza was basically an early chatbot - you could get "therapy" by "talking" to it. In the novel (which is also brilliantly written as an epistolary story, told entirely through documents), you get to see the transcripts of the unnamed villain ranting to Eliza about their obsession with the main character, and it's a beautifully done window method into their thoughts.

[@andre_santos2181]

Usually I use the narrator. Before any chapters at the begging, the narrator speaks three paragraphs of info dump - aka, set the scenario - necessary to the characters start speaking. I use a lot of free indirect speech, so the thinking of the characters go seamless into the narrator

[@captainaomaruvomexekutivko4919]

This is really helpful, thanks for the video :)

[@rayv1574]

This is downright brilliant. Thanks for the post.

[@SiobhanYukino]

This helps a lot!!!!!

[@johntuck77]

Great Video as usual! Do you think that when it is "overused" an Expository character can quickly morph into a "Mary Sue" character? I always had that feeling with Hermione in Harry Potter.