Let's start by noticing that Pratchett is maybe the last writer on the planet to learn how to handle view from. Seriously flawed in that...
Maybe instead of saying show versus tell we can say to put the actors into the story, progress it in a forward direction, don't explain things to...
Most of this debate really stems from how showing is most often taught (like every single place you google, for example). Showing is largely...
The best alternative I know about, to resort to telling as opposed to showing is to get heavily involved in the essay writing industry. Business...
Yes, I agree. I call this even writing, insofar as time is evened out and nothing is bypassed for the sake of getting to the meat. People do this...
My thought on that is to read a couple books on fiction writing to help you discover a thing or two to avoid or use. I'll suggest Write Great...
Whenever I find myself feeling like I'm just moving my actors from point A to point B, and the work shifts to a telling mode, my educated impulse...
There is a decent book out about openings called Hooked, by Les Edgerton. The first half of that book articulates the suggested job list for the...
The very last thing you should consider is anything related to her boring life. Do not waste the most important part of a novel by showing...
The real problem with showing versus telling is that almost nobody has a clue what showing is, and thus they get confused when they notice a...
You have a real problem. Stories are about a multitude of things that work off each other. Poking something in the middle, just to fulfill one...
In WW2, things were heating up fast. The United States had a very small army, so if you were a fresh lieutenant (ROTC or West Point), you was...
I am assuming that you are talking about multiple limited POV (not omniscience, though you might be using some form of that), wherein one...
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