TIPS 101 #7

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Show rather than tell

Too much description, too many adjectives and adverbs, can slow up your narrative and cause your readers to lose interest. Where possible, it's better to show you readers what a person, the atmosphere in the room, the relationship between your characters is like – show, that is, by what they say, how they interact, what they do. It's more effective than telling the reader through wordy piles of information.

This is a tricky one. You have to do some telling so it's important not to become obsessive about avoiding it. Also, do not cause yourself to lack details and everything else.

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