I think I’m learning ways for me to accomplish this. I hope.
Every aspiring creative writer hears it at some point:. It’s one of those great phrases that sound cryptic and meaningful and take a while to puzzle out.
Yes, yes, young grasshopper, I see you’ve written some words on the page here, and I see you’re trying to do something like write fiction, a craft I myself have mastered over many difficult years. Ah, well, you are cute, young grasshopper, I admire your young and precious energy, but you have so much to learn. So let me speak in my greatest guru voice and give you a secret that may take you years to unpack, you who thought you knew so much just from reading fiction. And here’s the advice, young grasshopper. “Show, don’t tell.”
Or as it’s usually phrased, in creative writing guidebooks:
SHOW DON’T TELL
Source: Buster Keaton and The Art of Showing (Not Telling) | The Jackie Wilson Blog
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