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Creating Motion in Fiction Open in new Window. [13+]
How to apply show don't tell principle and adjust the pace of the story
by Joy Author Icon
Review by Annette Author IconMail Icon
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Rated: 13+ | (4.5)
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Hello Joy Author Icon

First impression:

Items that help with writing are always something I am interested in reading. I am glad that you have created this document and make it available to the community in your "Items on the Craft of Writing " Open in new Window. folder.

What works:

Great job presenting several examples of show don't tell that cover a host of different scenes and how to make them more lively.

What needs work:

It's been a theme recently, but it bears repeating. It could be a good idea to increase the font size to 3.5 or 4.0.

The reader of today, because he is so strongly conditioned by the movies *Right* it might be an idea to make the reader gender neutral. The mention of "he" makes me feel as if I'm not included as a woman. And it also makes me think that "he" is a little bit dumb for being so conditioned.

To start with, the show, don't tell principle has to be at work here *Right* the underlined part is clumsy. The words "to start" demand to be offset with a comma, but the thing you're describing has a comma in the middle. It takes very slow reading, more than once, to really get what the sentence means. Considering this text is about not droning on, the words "to start with" should be deleted.

Final thoughts:

I think your suggestion to circle all of the adjectives and adverbs is a good one.



Annette
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