If your readers/listeners/viewers need background information to understand your story, there are lots of ways to give it to them: characters speaking exposition, environmental clues, overly-detailed maps, omniscient narrator references, sequels, etc. I'm looking for radical approaches: interactive quiz before the story; infographics; author-to-reader messages; reader selection -- these are me brainstorming, but has anyone tried nontraditional approaches in this vein?
Something more knowing, or faster, or adaptable to the reader's current knowledge, or game-like, or just different and interesting - have you encountered, or tried, or considered some alternative way to get information from the writer's mind into the reader's mind? Perhaps to allow the story proper to be as immersive and real as possible, perhaps to lighten the attentional load on the reader, perhaps to increase the sheer amount of information you can give the reader?
I'm interested in nonfiction, fiction, product manuals, legal agreements, children's books, academic articles, news reporting, audio, video - any form of storytelling or even non-story communication. What works in one genre might be adaptable to another genre.
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