Comments on: Showing vs. Telling—Do You See What I See? http://kayedacus.com/2007/01/29/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-see-what-i-see/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:17:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Flannery’s Favorites–Day 2 « KayeDacus.com http://kayedacus.com/2007/01/29/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-see-what-i-see/#comment-24074 Wed, 11 May 2011 05:03:17 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-see-what-i-see/#comment-24074 [...] Wall Showing vs. Telling—In the Eye of the Beholder Showing vs. Telling—Feeeeeeeeeelings . . . Showing vs. Telling—Do You See What I See? Showing vs. Telling—Do You Smell What I Taste? Showing vs. Telling—The Sixth Sense Showing vs. [...]

]]> By: Debunking Writing Myths: “Showing Is Always Better than Telling” « KayeDacus.com http://kayedacus.com/2007/01/29/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-see-what-i-see/#comment-23023 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 05:02:56 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-see-what-i-see/#comment-23023 [...] Wall Showing vs. Telling—In the Eye of the Beholder Showing vs. Telling—Feeeeeeeeeelings . . . Showing vs. Telling—Do You See What I See? Showing vs. Telling—Do You Smell What I Taste? Showing vs. Telling—The Sixth Sense Showing vs. [...]

]]> By: Writing Series Spotlight: Showing vs. Telling and POV « KayeDacus.com http://kayedacus.com/2007/01/29/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-see-what-i-see/#comment-15758 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:43:34 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-see-what-i-see/#comment-15758 [...] Wall Showing vs. Telling—In the Eye of the Beholder Showing vs. Telling—Feeeeeeeeeelings . . . Showing vs. Telling—Do You See What I See? Showing vs. Telling—Do You Smell What I Taste? Showing vs. Telling—The Sixth Sense Showing vs. [...]

]]> By: Eliminate “scaffolding” for elegant deep POV » Jordan McCollum http://kayedacus.com/2007/01/29/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-see-what-i-see/#comment-12995 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:37:24 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-see-what-i-see/#comment-12995 [...] By emphasizing the viewpoint character in these sentences, we are doing exactly what Bickham wants us to—show the viewpoint. However, we’re telling what that character is seeing/feeling/hearing. [...]

]]> By: Make POV Work for You: Show Don’t Tell (Part 2) « KayeDacus.com http://kayedacus.com/2007/01/29/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-see-what-i-see/#comment-12149 Wed, 06 May 2009 16:56:58 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-see-what-i-see/#comment-12149 [...] FIVE SENSES (see also Showing vs. Telling—Do You See What I See? and Showing vs. Telling—Do You Smell What I Taste?) I mentioned on Tuesday two signposts of [...]

]]> By: Showing vs. Telling Refresher « KayeDacus.com http://kayedacus.com/2007/01/29/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-see-what-i-see/#comment-11584 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:11:09 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-see-what-i-see/#comment-11584 [...] Showing vs. Telling—Do You See What I See? “…When we ‘tell’ that a character saw something (She watched him running down the street), we are holding the reader back from truly being inside the head of the character. When I see something, I am not (usually) cognizant of the fact that I am in the process of ‘seeing.’ I just experience the action going on outside of me. So how does this work in prose? …” [...]

]]> By: Erica Vetsch http://kayedacus.com/2007/01/29/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-see-what-i-see/#comment-189 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:26:01 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-see-what-i-see/#comment-189 Can I just say that little lights..nay, flashbulbs, are going off in my head with each post of showing/telling?

Raymond whisked the twenties from the countertop quicker than a con artist playing the shell game.

]]> By: Georgiana D http://kayedacus.com/2007/01/29/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-see-what-i-see/#comment-188 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:37:21 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-see-what-i-see/#comment-188 Raymond’s eyes probed the crowd for onlookers. Seeing none, he slipped the cash–cool and crisp–into his pocket.

Shame on Raymond–sticky fingers! Great post. Thanks for the other buzzwords to look for while editing.

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