Show, don't tell.

 

                                            Show, don’t tell

 

 
   It's often quoted as "Show, don't tell" because, on the whole, beginner writers do too much telling when they should be showing. But of course, it's not nearly as simple as that. Both have their value; the key is to understand their respective strengths, and use each to your story's best advantage. Mind you, like everything in writing, it isn't even binary, but a spectrum, from the telliest tell, to the showiest show. This week session has shown me how I can enhance my stories by showing and not telling.

    I learned Showing sentence is for making the reader feel they’re in there: feel as in smell, touch, see, hear, believe the actual experience of the characters. As Ms. Gillian Lazarus says, it's by being convincing in the reality and detail of how we evoke our imagined world, by what the characters do and say that we persuade the reader to read the story we're telling as if it really happened, even though we all know it didn't. 

    I personally think showing sentences creates an interesting story, the writer needs to show not tell the reader about people, places and things they are writing about, I think it also creates mental pictures in the reader's mind and when the readers get a clear picture, they are more engaged in the writer's story.

                         This is an example of both the showing and the telling sentences.

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