SHOWING IS: SUGGESTION, INFERENCE, EVIDENCE (OF)
by zentao

Fiction writers are perpetually urged to SHOW, DON'T TELL, but, while they are given demonstration, definition, and lots and lots of explanation ABOUT what showing is, they are not specifically told the root kernel of how to do it. One of my principle understudies gave me incentive to write this article...because she finally got it. But what, I asked myself, did she "get?"

Showing...to hook, to stimulate reader question, to answer previous reader questions, and to create and maintain two standing needs that must be fulfilled throughout a book:

• to create a reason for a reader to continue reading
• to give them a reason to care about the story.

As the title of this article says: Showing is suggesting, inferring, and giving evidences that allow the reader to discover the story, based upon decisions….

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