: Re: Writing techniques or exercises to improve ability to show rather than tell? Does anyone have any effective writing techniques or exercises that you use to help you focus more on showing the

@Jennifer354

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"Show" is an expanded version of "tell." If you expand your "telling" sufficiently, it will become "showing."

For instance, if I write, "The man fell on his behind," that's "telling." In only six words.

"Showing" is something like this: "The man's legs seemed to topple from under him. Soon, they were both in the air, which is to say that he had no more connection to the ground. Then he keeled backward and landed on his behind with a thud."

This passage required forty words, went step by step, and ended in the same place.

See the difference?

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