#58: Three Ways You're Telling When You Should Be Showing

Show, don’t tell has got to be the most canned advice bandied about.

Yes, you should show. But that doesn’t mean you never tell. Telling does have its place.

So the question becomes, when is it better to show rather than tell?

In today’s episode, I’ll share the three main ways writers tell when it’s better to show, and how to convert telling into showing.  There's also a quick writing exercise at the end, so  have your pen and paper handy.

Here’s what we’ll cover:

• Why showing helps your story become your reader's story, and why this is a major gain
• The difference between scene and summary and when to write scene vs summary
• How to use action, language, and metaphor to reveal character
• How to recreate setting so the reader drops right into the world of your story

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