Show, Don't Tell: The Story Behind the Advice Video Download Build Your Platform In this presentation Hallie Ephron

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Show, Don't Tell: The Story Behind the Advice Video Download Build Your Platform In this presentation Hallie EphronWriters are advised again and again to show and not tell. But there's more to showing and telling in fiction than a blanket prohibition. Sometimes the suggestion to show rather than tell simply doesn't go far enough. Of what value is such advice when neither showing nor telling are explained? when the differences between showing and telling aren't spelled out? when no effort is made to point out that both showing and telling are necessary in fiction