*facepalm*

My current audiobook inspired me to add an 18th entry to my list of Tropes Things I Will Never inlude in my Original Stories.

18. Exposition about my setting's history and politics and the wars that shaped it, all delivered within sight of the first page. I mean, the readers barely know my main characters, they don't care yet about the setting's ancient history. Throwing a bunch of names of past empires, their rulers, the generals who made it happen, and the outcomes of those great battles just makes readers' eyes glaze over. I will always wait a few chapters or say, 10,000 words, before I start the history lessons.  And I'll try to deliver them in small doses, to give the readers time to assimilate them and understand why this ancient history is important to the current plot.

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