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16.33: Tell, Don’t Show

Writing Excuses

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This is writing excuses. Tell don't show 15 minutes long because you're in a hurry and we're going to tell you stuff. A novel is mostly the writer just telling you stuff, but there's too many things that happen in a novel for you to show every single component of it rigt. Think about the hill house that whole first paragraph is just shirley jackson telling us about this house. And i think that in forms everything has can come after that. This episode of writing excuses has been brought to you by our listeners, patrons and friends. Visit w w w dot patrion dot com.

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