Stop Being So Literal!
(show-don’t-tell might not mean what you think)
If there is one piece of writing advice that has stood the test of time, it’s Show-Don’t-Tell (SDT). I remember my undergrad professors saying it 25 years ago, and just as clearly, I hear it in the voices of my favorite writing podcast hosts. It is deeply, inexorably ingrained in writers’ brains, which is great, because it’s great advice —unless writers…