The Universal Rule of Writing (That You Should Discard)

Posted by Matt | Filed under Writing

“Show, don’t tell.”
At first pass, it’s the solution to 90% of bad writing. It’s such a vague, catch-all instruction that if you’re in a writer’s workshop, you can prove you critiqued your peers by writing “show, don’t tell!” all over their stories. Strident red letters work best. I prefer to replace the “don’t” with “not,” [...]

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