You have figured out the complex world building for your novel, and you begin to write your story.
Eagerly, you explain the details of your world and its creatures. Ten pages in, your main characters still haven’t shown up, or they’ve not done anything to move the story along, but your world is detailed and exciting.
You show your work to your critique partner, and she promptly starts yawning.
The problem? Info dumping.
Most inexperienced writers dump a bunch of world building into the first few chapters, and they don't realize that they are writing it for themselves to get everything straight, not for the reader who doesn't need that much to get into the story. Most of that world building should be deleted in the first edit.
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