Ariel, Chris, and Oren describe the difference between showing elaborate spectacle and simply telling what happens. They discuss how showing can invoke deep emotions and contemplate when telling is warranted. Listen to hear how writers enhance storytelling with showing and telling.
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Opening and closing theme: The Princess Who Saved Herself by Jonathan Coulton. Used with permission.
Show Notes:
Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
Five Ways to Use Pets in Your Story – Without Killing Them
Five Unrealistic Character Traits
Outlander Teaches Us How to Disempower Our Heroine
The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffery Cranor
New Moon (The Twilight Saga Book 2) by Stephanie Meyer
Crow Fishers from Mad Max: Fury Road
I recently found your podcast on iTunes and I need to say, it’s eyeopening. I have beta readers reading my first ever finished novel and one of them told me, “You do a lot of telling, not a lot of showing.” This particular podcast is helping me keep the two of these straight.
Congratulations for getting your first novel to beta readers, that’s no small accomplishment! If our podcast has been helpful in showing (I’m terrible) you how to strengthen your work, we’d be grateful for a review on iTunes, or whatever service you listen through.