Episode 67 - Lighting the writing fuse, and showing rather than telling about the setting.
Essential Guide to Writing a Novel
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The Importance of Setting in a Story
Jim Thayer: Showing and telling are terms of art in the writing profession. He says showing reveals while telling explains things that are revealed to the reader. Can we show instead of tell regarding the setting? "Without a description of the setting, a novel seems unattached to the ground"
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