Don’t overexplain.
Trust your readers to pick up on the power of subtlety.
Let your words whisper. 📝✨
Full post ➡️ https://wix.to/snzzzfW
#TonyTipsTuesdays #ShowDontTell #SubtleWriting #FaithAndFiction
#ShowDontTell
The Power of Unspoken Words: How to Write Subtext in Fiction
[From KMW: I’m taking a quick sabbatical this week. I’ll be back next Monday with a post/podcast about “The Disillusionment Arc in Storytelling: A Powerful Tool for Character Growth.” Until then, I hope you enjoy this short post on the important topic of how to write subtext in fiction!] One of the…
https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/how-to-write-subtext-in-fiction/
(Almost) everyone is watching, talking rubbish, commenting and reproducing what has long been obvious. !!! Including me !! Very few people do anything about it! This must be the famous #slacktivism. #showdonttell
#WritingResourceWednesday returns with a video from our YouTube channel: Death to "Show, Don't Tell"
Help us stamp out this outdated piece of writing advice! Or learn why you should ignore it in favor of more nuanced advice from authors Rebecca Makkai and Cecilia Tan.
https://writingtheother.com/death-to-show-dont-tell-resource/
Curtiss Sittenfeld is back with a short story collection that explores marriage, friendship, fame, and artistic ambition. My review: #Bookthreads #Books #Booksky #BookBlogger
#ShowDontTell #NetGalley #RandomHouse #WomensFiction #ARCReview #CurtisSittenfeld #ARCReview #BookReview #RomanticComedy
The typical #FOSS #dev lifecycle:
1. #showerthought idea
2. git init, start #CI pipeline
3. code, don't forget #TDD
It is great for doing what you love to do as a coder: #coding. It is less great if over time your coded work becomes popular, and all kinds of boring other considerations must be dealt with.
One easily ends up in a #OneManArmy situation, and if not delegating timely, on a burnout vector.
This kind of ad-hoc #ShowDontTell also leads to #TechnosphereMyopia: tech-only perspective.
The typical #FOSS #dev lifecycle:
1. #showerthought idea
2. git init, start #CI pipeline
3. code, don't forget #TDD
It is great for doing what you love to do as a coder: #coding. It is less great if over time your coded work becomes popular, and all kinds of boring other considerations must be dealt with.
One easily ends up in a #OneManArmy situation, and if not delegating timely, on a burnout vector.
This kind of ad-hoc #ShowDontTell also leads to #TechnosphereMyopia: tech-only perspective.
A few years ago, I was not sure about using scarce piece of lore in videogames, and know I am inclined to think that it is a hard to master skill.
Writting and introducing a choice-matter dramatic poles system, through a pool of non-elaborated pieces of lore questions, is being fairly more complex than writting an "A or B" test.
😅😅😅
#WritingResourceWednesday returns with a video from our YouTube channel: Death to "Show, Don't Tell"
Help us stamp out this outdated piece of writing advice! Or learn why you should ignore it in favor of more nuanced advice from authors Rebecca Makkai and Cecilia Tan.
https://writingtheother.com/death-to-show-dont-tell-resource/
Falls ihr lieber lest: Ich habe auf LinkedIn einen Artikel zum Schwungrad geschrieben:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/wie-das-schwungrad-nicht-nur-agilen-teams-energie-freisetzt-nba-ypzqe
Kommt eigentlich aus dieser Podcast Folge: https://no-bullshit-agile.de/nba24-das-schwungrad.html
#AgileLeadership #Schwungrad #TeamDynamik #AgileMindset #ShowDontTell #VorbildSein #AgileTeams #EnergieImTeam #AgileTransformation #NoBullshitAgile
#WritingResourceWednesday returns with a video from our YouTube channel: Death to "Show, Don't Tell"
Help us stamp out this outdated piece of writing advice! Or learn why you should ignore it in favor of more nuanced advice from authors Rebecca Makkai and Cecilia Tan.
https://writingtheother.com/death-to-show-dont-tell-resource/
How to shape up your CV -
As always, when it comes to writing: apply Show.Don't.Tell.
Neues aus der Kategorie #ShowDontTell:
die Zuganbindungen in #Europa. 🇪🇺
#Wien ist zB sehr gut angebunden, #Lisboa eher nicht.
🛤️
#mobility #trains #nighttrain #proschiene #ConnectingEurope #interrail #trainmap #DavidJablonski #publictransport #prorail
https://trainmap.davidjablonski.at/?lang=de
Show effective leadership and people will become believers. #ShowDontTell
#WritingResourceWednesday returns with a video from our YouTube channel: Death to "Show, Don't Tell"
Help us stamp out this outdated piece of writing advice! Or learn why you should ignore it in favor of more nuanced advice from authors Rebecca Makkai and Cecilia Tan.
https://writingtheother.com/death-to-show-dont-tell-resource/
I do hope I'm wrong but the trailers for #DoctorWho are looking really bad from a #ShowDontTell perspective. Lore being dictated by Ncuti like he's regenerated into Basil Exposition
🥭 On Developer Marketing
by Lee Robinson @leeerob
#marketing #developermarketing #concise #precise #ShowDontTell
https://leerob.substack.com/p/on-developer-marketing?publication_id=1248526&post_id=142913161
Finally got to see #TheZoneOfInterest , adding it to the very top of my #showdonttell list
Having done my mandatory depression walk, I’m planning to unwind with the premier of #curbyourenthusiasm.
And to think that if the nazi scum had their way, we would’ve been deprived of Larry
Eine klassische Anfänger-Eröffnungsszene besteht aus Charaktersteckbrief-Infodumping: "Ich bin x Jahre alt. Ich wohne in y und habe z Geschwister."
Ein Fortgeschrittener vermeidet dies zumeist via #ShowDontTell in Form eines #ColdOpening.
Ein Profi allerdings mag die Fähigkeit besitzen, eben diesen Stil des Anfängers als bewusstes Stilmittel einzusetzen. Hierfür kann bspw. #Foreshadowing oder sogar ein #unreliableNarrator verwendet werden.
I am going to talk about how awful last night’s episode of Fear the Walking Dead was… again. I don’t think I am going to spoil anything because nothing happened so there was nothing to spoil, but if you’re watching the show and haven’t seen last night’s episode you should probably stop reading.
I’ll give you a second to decide.
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Okay… so… When I was in college I took a creative writing course. I had one phrase drilled into my tiny little brain: Show Don’t Tell. When you’re writing, don’t tell the readers what’s happening, show them. Describe the events as they happen, don’t just have the characters say what’s going on.
The writers of last night’s episode never took that creative writing class. Basically the entire episode is Tell Don’t Show. It’s about 40 minutes of exposition. That is inexcusable in any television situation, but here? There are only two more episodes in the entire series after last night, and they spent 40 minutes on exposition?
They also introduced new characters last night. Really. A whole new group. The story tells us that they met a major character last season… after the actor left the show and was supposed to be dead… What. The. Fuck?
Every week I say that the new episode is as bad as it could possibly get. Every week’s new episode tops the prior week in terribleness. Once again, this is the worst episode imaginable. Unforgivably bad.
https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/11/13/fear-the-walking-exposition/
#awfulTelevision #badTelevision #exposition #fearTheWalkingDead #showDonTTell #televsion #tellDonTShow #terribleTelevision #TheWalkingDead #worstShowEver
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