Since many people have been asking me through the years, I decided to put everything I know about writing in a book. I hope it helps you improve your writing and motivate you to create.
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Show don't tell
Writing is all about touching someone, reaching through your words someone's mind, heart, and feelings. Passing a message, a story. Transmitting. But for that to happen in the best way possible, you can't just say the story. You have to show the story.
Of course not your whole story has to be shown and not told, because that would leave you with a story full of descriptions of places that may be unnecessary. Show emotions, tell feelings.
Instead of saying she was sad. Show what sadness is, and describe it. what makes her look sad.
Example 1: She was sad and she was crying.
Example 2: She hugged her body as she shrunk to the corner of her bed, the tears that were fogging her vision finally slipping down her cold skin.
As you can see from the examples above, in the second example we have the emotions of sadness shown to us instead of just being told that she was sad, and because it was shown, we can imagine in our head her condition and relate more, feel more for the character, to the point that we could even taste her sadness. That's why showing is important.
Regardless if you already have this skill down or not, I suggest you write and after you finish a chapter, in the proofreading process, you can question yourself, when you find something written and decide if it would be better to show it better, or leave it as a statement on telling.
In the next chapter, I will make sure I provide you with some vocabulary related to emotions and ways of describing certain stages.
See you soon :)
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