Great starting point to learn to avoid the plague of infodumps:
Planetalyx Information Bureau - Of Infodumps and Exposition:
"Of Infodumps and Exposition"
My True and Vivid Writing class had a dialogue exercise this week, and that led some of them to a struggle with the practice of slipping exposition into their characters' conversation: a form of infodumping, in other words. They asked about ways to finesse this and I've quickly surfed up a few links to get them started:
http://www.fiction-writers-mentor.com/info-dump.html
http://www.writing-world.com/sf/infodump.shtml
http://research-writing-techniques.suite101.com/article.cfm/avoid_info_dumps_in_dialogue
http://www.therthdimension.org/FictionWriting/Info_Dump_Avoidance/info_dump_avoidance.htm
Has any of you fought this particular battle, and written anything about it? As always, links and tips are very much appreciated!
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