![]() ![]() ![]() Understanding Show, Don’t Tell: And Really Getting It (2016) by Jance Hardy is the best book I found. ![]() I read many blog posts and craft books on this subject. This blog post is a summary of my research and learnings on how to recognize a tell from a show. Some obvious red flags help but, honestly, I didn’t have a deep understanding of this subject. I didn’t know exactly where my writing is a tell and when it is a show. To decide consciously between show and tell, at first, we need to recognize tells. It depends on the art and the craft of the storyteller! There is no rule to tell us where to find the balance. I read another piece of advice somewhere that I believe is worth giving to you. It is a piece from a Wikipedia article or a newspaper article. On the other hand, if a story fills only with tells, it is not a story at all. If a book shows everything, the number of details bores the reader. This advice is correct up to a certain level. Show don’t tell is the piece of advice writers and authors, at any stage of their career may give or get. ![]()
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