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Free tips and advice for writers: Show who your characters are, what they are like, but don't tell it. Don't expound on their qualities or attributes, demonstrate them.

If you just do one of those information dumps, it's a big yawn. If you give the reader Action, then s/he can become a part of it, relate to it, make it their own experience. See, that's what most readers want, to own the action, the character, the emotions, the experience.

Like I told you, it's a magic you do.

Here's my personal "take" (I hate that phrase): the writer brings the reader's mind to a point or set of points congruent with the writer's own mind. It's a form of magic--a Vulcan Mind Meld.

It's the scene in the movie where the paranormal person touches the protagonist and "shows" them the "actual incident," or whatever--plays it back "live."

Get it? Don't tell me. Show me.

 

 

 

"Don't think you are, know you are." (That's got no bearing here I just love the line, The Matrix. "Do you think that's air you're breathing now?")

Never mind.

The reader has to enter your world--the world of your

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characters, just like in The Matrix (see, a writer can get himself out of anything.)

People want to escape with their feelings into another world, experience what they can't in this one.

If you tell them about it, you just have a summary, shadows.

If you show it to them, like I do in BLACK ROAD 2012, my book, it becomes a scene with scenery and special effects, lights, camera...

A scene is on a stage, and the reader can then enter onto that same stage with the characters.

Data vs. Deed.

Show me vs. Tell me.

Clear? ☺☻

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