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Award Winning Author Maris Soule

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show vs tell

When to Tell/When to Show

August 14, 2013

When is it better to tell what’s happening, and when is it better to show? I’ve blogged about show and tell before, but it’s a topic that keeps popping up, and I’d like to approach it from a different perspective than I did before. Writers are always being told to show, don’t tell, but there […]

Verisimilitude

May 15, 2013

Lately I’ve had the opportunity to read and comment on some stories written by new writers. What I’ve noticed is these writers are so eager to get their stories written, they end up TELLING the story rather than drawing the reader into the story. Often what we tell these writers is you need to SHOW […]