Original post edited because after rereading this again, I answered my own question <g>.
Anyway, since I'm here, I agree about the expository problem of having characters launch into dialogue just to have information disseminated. It's very annoying to be treated like we can't figure out stuff ourselves.
I've always understood that any character in a story should serve a purpose, and I have a hard enough time doing that without adding characters whose sole reason for existence is to provide an invisible friend for the hero or heroine. Maybe I'm just a lazy writer <g>.
But I have to concede that too much internal dialogue and introspection does get tedious, so perhaps there is a happy medium.
Lynn
