: Re: At what point do you draw the line of showing, and not telling, or vice versa? I often get confused in writing about whether or not something is showing or telling. For example, if my character

If you can, stay within the POV of your characters. That will help readers to stay in the experience, to stay connected to the character.

So if you're in this character's POV, give the information through the character.

How does the character experience the sensation of life energy? If you know that, you can describe what the character is experiencing, and what meaning the character makes of it, and what significance it has to the character, given the character's intentions in the scene.

As a bonus, being visually limited by the mask offers a great opportunity to get this information into the story. The character would feel a certain amount of frustration at the limited field of view, and would naturally compensate by paying more attention to this wonderful racial life-sensing ability.

So both the need to use this ability and the experience of using it would be on the character's mind. So all you gotta do is stay in the character's experience.

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