Fred East reveals why Show Don’t Tell is good advice…QUOTES FOR WRITERS

If you tell the reader that Bull Beezley is a brutal-faced, loose-lipped bully, with snake’s blood in his veins, the reader’s reaction may be, ‘Oh, yeah!’ But if you show the reader Bull Beezley raking the bloodied flanks of his weary, sweat-encrusted pony, and flogging the tottering, red-eyed animal with a quirt, or have him booting in the protruding ribs of a starved mongrel and, boy, the reader believes!
Fred East (aka Tom West)

Image by Ryan McGuire from Pixabay

2 comments on “Fred East reveals why Show Don’t Tell is good advice…QUOTES FOR WRITERS”

1. Rae Longest

   July 9, 2020

   

   Excellent!

   Reply
2. Rae Longest

   July 9, 2020

   

   Reblogged this on Literacy and Me.

   Reply

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