Show Don’t Tell Isn’t the Fantastic Advice You Think
Let’s reevaluate narrative techniques and their impact on writing
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8 min readMay 8, 2024
The most common piece of writing advice, after ‘just write’, is ‘show, don’t tell’, a snappy little saying that’s more memorable than useful.
‘Show, don’t tell’ is a bat writers use to bludgeon other writers into tangled descriptions, poor…