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Download Transcript Writing Excuses 10.20: How Do I Write a Story, Not an Encyclopedia? You’ve done piles of world building. How do you convey this world to reader without infodumping? We talk about the different skill levels involved, and then the techniques that you’ll be using as you get better and better at what is probably the most critical skill unique to genre fiction writers. This week’s exercise: Take a spec gee-whiz, and have something go wrong with it. Write a scene in which the main character must deal with the problem. Communicate each of the following: How it works What it looks like The main character’s relationship to it The Autumn Republic, by Brian McClellan