Date: 2019-06-19 01:53 pm (UTC)
tinny: Jake Peralta from Brooklyn Nine-Nine misquoting "eyes closed, head first, can't lose" (b99_jake eyesclosed headfirst)
From: [personal profile] tinny
Well. Fanfic cuts away a lot of exposition. Mentioning the name of the character is definitely enough to get people into the story. Also, fanfic is often visceral and emotional and just pulling your reader along as fast as possible is a main characteristic of shorter fiction.

And... to be honest, I don't see why novels shouldn't be the same? At least if you are writing an action-packed plot where throwing the reader into medias res is indicative of how the rest of the book is going to be. You can explain the rest later. (I love that, both as a reader and a writer.)

Of course, if you are writing something more sedate, I guess starting sedately, with exposition, makes more sense.
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