Comments on: Showing vs. Telling—Do You Smell What I Taste? http://kayedacus.com/2007/01/30/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-smell-what-i-taste/ Thu, 17 May 2012 03:11:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Writer-Talk Tuesday: The Five Senses « KayeDacus.com http://kayedacus.com/2007/01/30/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-smell-what-i-taste/#comment-30062 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:02:14 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-smell-what-i-taste/#comment-30062 [...] reading on incorporating the five senses: Showing vs. Telling—Do You See What I See? Showing vs. Telling—Do You Smell What I Taste? Stir Up Your Setting – Part 2: Using All Five Senses Share [...]

]]> By: Flannery’s Favorites–Day 2 « KayeDacus.com http://kayedacus.com/2007/01/30/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-smell-what-i-taste/#comment-24075 Wed, 11 May 2011 05:03:21 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-smell-what-i-taste/#comment-24075 [...] 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. Telling—Puppets, Cartoon Characters, or Live [...]

]]> By: Debunking Writing Myths: “Showing Is Always Better than Telling” « KayeDacus.com http://kayedacus.com/2007/01/30/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-smell-what-i-taste/#comment-23024 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 05:02:58 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-smell-what-i-taste/#comment-23024 [...] 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. Telling—Puppets, Cartoon Characters, or Live [...]

]]> By: A rose by any other name » Jordan McCollum http://kayedacus.com/2007/01/30/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-smell-what-i-taste/#comment-16328 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:26:36 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-smell-what-i-taste/#comment-16328 [...] Dacus recommends this one: Try this exercise. Close your eyes (well, after you finish reading this paragraph!). [...]

]]> By: Writing Series Spotlight: Showing vs. Telling and POV « KayeDacus.com http://kayedacus.com/2007/01/30/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-smell-what-i-taste/#comment-15759 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:43:36 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-smell-what-i-taste/#comment-15759 [...] 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. Telling—Puppets, Cartoon Characters, or Live [...]

]]> By: Make POV Work for You: Show Don’t Tell (Part 2) « KayeDacus.com http://kayedacus.com/2007/01/30/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-smell-what-i-taste/#comment-12150 Wed, 06 May 2009 16:57:01 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-smell-what-i-taste/#comment-12150 [...] 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 telling in previous posts (WAS and FELT), but would like [...]

]]> By: Showing vs. Telling Refresher « KayeDacus.com http://kayedacus.com/2007/01/30/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-smell-what-i-taste/#comment-11585 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:11:11 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-smell-what-i-taste/#comment-11585 [...] Showing vs. Telling—Do You Smell What I Taste? “…SMELL is such a funny word in that it can be used for the action of taking in and recognizing an aroma as well as describing something as giving off an aroma. If you write It smelled, are you saying that ‘it’ did the action of breathing in through the nose and recognizing a scent or are you saying that ‘it’ is giving off a pungency that is unpleasant? TASTE is the same way. TOUCH can mean to actually come into physical contact with something or to be affected emotionally by something. Therefore, we should be as specific as possible. …” [...]

]]> By: Kaye Dacus http://kayedacus.com/2007/01/30/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-smell-what-i-taste/#comment-191 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:26:09 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-smell-what-i-taste/#comment-191 Erica this is great! Sight, sound, and touch are great details and I get a good feel for the character through this passage.

Just a few questions (because these are the two areas I have the hardest time with in my writing):

Can she smell the smoke from the gunfire from this distance? Taste the saltiness of her tears?

]]> By: Erica Vetsch http://kayedacus.com/2007/01/30/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-smell-what-i-taste/#comment-190 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:06:43 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/showing-vs-telling%e2%80%94do-you-smell-what-i-taste/#comment-190 Christabel gasped, fighting back sobs as she sank to the musty, damp earth under the trees. Leaf litter and twigs hung in her hair and stuck to her wet feet and legs as she crouched in exhaustion. She leaned against a tree, wrapping her arms around the solid bulk and wedging herself against the slope of the riverbank. Dank, muddy water gurgled only yards away, light splintering on its surface, casting odd shadows on the undersides of the overhanging trees. Up the slope, gunfire and shouting continued. How far to the ferry crossing?

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