It's Time To Get Rid Of 'Show, Don't Tell'
Show-don't-tell is a mantra for early writers, the training wheels on the bike, the interior wax holding up a bronze sculpture. But. "The real goal of 'show, don't tell' is to force a discipline that encourages the writer to see subjectivity emerging through those details. But that sentence"that command"doesn't say that. It's saying specifically don't […]