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    How to show-not-tell story settings, history, backgrounds?

    Another thing that works well, but can be difficult for me to accept, is that some of the worldbuilding you do just isn't for the reader's eyes. A lot of it is just the scaffolding of the story, holding the set together enough to keep the story going. They don't need to know about the...
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    How to show-not-tell story settings, history, backgrounds?

    Another thing that helps me is to remember that the reader is smarter than you expect, and can handle a little mystery. If you reference things in your worldbuilding, you can just choose to not explain them until they come up. For example, say your world has an advanced transit system just...
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