{"id":23909,"date":"2014-01-09T06:30:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T17:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=23909"},"modified":"2014-01-02T20:41:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T07:41:01","slug":"the-most-read-posts-of-on-anything-really-from-2013-one-of-my-most-disliked-tropes-of-sff-epic-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/01\/09\/the-most-read-posts-of-on-anything-really-from-2013-one-of-my-most-disliked-tropes-of-sff-epic-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most-Read Posts of \u201c\u2026On Anything Really\u201d from 2013: &#8220;One Of My \u201cMost Disliked\u201d Tropes Of SFF \/ Epic Fantasy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this post because it was very much in my thoughts as I was plugging away on <strong><em>Daughter of Blood, <\/em>The Wall Of Night Book Three<\/strong> &#8212; but it appears to have struck a chord. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;One of the great dangers of writing SFF is what the great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ursulakleguin.com\/UKL_info.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Ursula Le Guin<\/span><\/a> calls the \u201cExpository Lump\u201d, ie in lieu of a Vulcan Mind meld between author and reader, the author downloads details of worldbuilding, backstory, or other essential plot information in a giant lump of text.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Urrgh, I hear you all cry, quite rightly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">But there is an SFF trope \u2018sometimes\u2019 deployed to counteract this \u2014 or worse, simply to make the plot work \u2014 which drives me crazy as a reader&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To read on, or refresh your recollection, click on:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/07\/10\/one-of-my-most-hated-tropes-of-sff-epic-fantasy\/\">One Of My \u201cMost Disliked\u201d Tropes Of SFF \/ Epic Fantasy<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this post because it was very much in my thoughts as I was plugging away on Daughter of Blood, The Wall Of Night Book Three &#8212; but it appears to have struck a chord. \ud83d\ude09 &#8220;One of the great dangers of writing SFF is what the great Ursula Le Guin calls the \u201cExpository [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,30,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bestof-on-anythingreally","category-epicfantasy","category-most-read-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23909"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23913,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23909\/revisions\/23913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}