Stop Telling Writers to Show, Not Tell

How a well-meaning piece of advice gets twisted around

Mike B.
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readJul 23, 2020

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We’ve all been there.

You find yourself a beta reader, or you swap manuscripts with another writer, or you take a creative writing class. You share your story and wait for feedback and eventually, inevitably, you get the following advice:

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