I recently began writing an SI. Unlike my other attempts, this is a straight-up SI like what we've been seeing come out of Space Battles lately. But that's not the point here...
The thing is, I made the classic blunder of doing a one-thousand word infodump from the get-go. Yeah, horrible, isn't it? Thing is, by the time I had it out of the way, I had such a head of steam that I kept chugging right along for another four-thousand words in that session.
That was a couple of weeks ago. I now have about 40k words of material. And I came to realize something important: as bad as a violation as that infodump was in the beginning, it did help me to nail down my own character-self.
In summary: infodumps may be bad for reading... but they are great for writing.
The thing is, I made the classic blunder of doing a one-thousand word infodump from the get-go. Yeah, horrible, isn't it? Thing is, by the time I had it out of the way, I had such a head of steam that I kept chugging right along for another four-thousand words in that session.
That was a couple of weeks ago. I now have about 40k words of material. And I came to realize something important: as bad as a violation as that infodump was in the beginning, it did help me to nail down my own character-self.
In summary: infodumps may be bad for reading... but they are great for writing.