Post #847720
2026-03-25 18:08 UTC
I used to be so annoyed by that "show, don't tell" advice. Writing fiction is called "storytelling" for a reason! There's no showing without telling. Then I discovered that Chekhov never said that. What he said was: "In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes their eyes they get a picture."
Now, this makes so much more sense.
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@NicolasConstant@cosocial.ca 2026-03-25 18:11
@iwritelike "show, don't tell" is maybe one of the best advice I've had, with another one : "consider your reader intelligent", and both works together : when you show something, you're telling something, but you consider your reader clever enough to get it by himself.