Write setting exposition that vivifies your world Use your own characters’ present, past and/or future in exposition to flesh out their lives and create a vivid sense of time and place. We get a sense of its size and surrounds, as well as the promise of dramatic events in Colonel Buendia’s future (but not yet why they come to pass). Marquez moves seamlessly from describing an intimate memory of the Colonel’s father to describing their hometown, Macondo. Note how expertly Marquez blends his main character’s past (and foreshadows his dramatic future). Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970), p. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. His novel Cien años de soledad (translated as ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’) begins with historical setting exposition and expository character details that bend time: Historical exposition: One Hundred Years of Solitude The Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez blends personal and social history brilliantly in his novels. By page two of The Shining, we already know King’s setting is intimidating and have been introduced to the story’s main characters. If you use dialogue for exposition, keep to information that is relevant to your plot.
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