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Apr.11.2011 Balancing the Elements This morning I read an article on editing and it suggested that Show Don't Tell is not the only rule in the book. It isn't, but that has been the rule for a very long time. I didn't know that Sol Stein and Donald Maass popularized the technique to "modernize storytelling." As the author...	Feb.04.2011 Show Don't Tell Any writing course or lecture I have ever taken or seen at some point comes to the concept of "Show Don't Tell." It seems easy enough, display through your writing the emotions and events of your story rather than plainly stating these things as a matter of fact to the reader. What it...
Jul.26.2010 R.U.E. When I began writing, my crit partners would often return my pages with passages labeled R.U.E. I think it's a common "beginner's" mistake and I thought it might be worth a mention. Anyone who's undertaken writing has heard "Show, Don’t Tell"—probably more times than they've...	Apr.22.2010 More on the Writing Process First news: I received an email from the publisher for Where Danger Hides letting me know it'll be released a month early. So look for it in May of 2011, not June. This right after I got an email from my editor saying: The novel is extremely clean and one of the most enjoyable edits I've had in...
Aug.30.2009 The Showing and Telling of Torn One of the first axioms writers encounter when they let other writers read their work is "show don't tell." There are writing books dedicated to show don't tell. But sometimes learning can be fun. Here, let me SHOW you. Here's my fun and light example of how writing can come alive when a...