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    Episode 9: Showing versus telling

    Episode 9: Showing versus telling

    FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel

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    Episode 9: Showing versus telling

    FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel

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    Length:
    29 minutes
    Released:
    Apr 9, 2022
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    We'll talk about the most critical skill for vivid writing, showing versus telling.  Showing reveals.  Telling explains.  Showing is almost always more involving for the reader, and we'll discuss how to show rather than tell..
    Released:
    Apr 9, 2022
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Hosted by James Thayer, the podcast is a practical, step-by-step manual on how to craft a novel. It presents a set of tools for large issues such as story development and scene construction (Kirkus Reviews said Thayer's novels are "superbly crafted') and it also examines techniques that will make your sentence-by-sentence writing shine. The New York Times Book Review has said Thayer's "writing is smooth and clear. it wastes no words, and it has a rhythm only confident stylists achieve.