The Rules of Show, Don't Tell

"I have two key rules when it comes to description. One, be crunchily specific so avoid big, vague abstract nouns like, family." "The only difference with mine is that it lasted less than a year," he says of his parents' abandonment. "It's just this mire of relativism with nothing for the reader to bite down on" 'Show, don't tell isn't some humiliating set of training wheels you get to discard when you reach artistic maturity,' writes author John Green.