This just popped up on my feed. You were a bit ahead of the 'show don't tell' backlash. Good job. My main issue is that the instruction (and it's mainly given as an instruction) leads to terrible over-writing. Every example I have ever seen put forward as an argument in favour, replaced a simple action or thought with an overly-specific verbose dictionary-raid. After careful thought (and a lot of coffee), I've come to the conclusion that telling is great to move the plot forward, and showing is good for slowing it down to draw attention to a scene, idea or action. This is unlikely to be an original thought, but I like it.
Could you explain more about cinematic style writing? Could you give some definitive characteristics? Is it just dialogue heavy, white room style writing? Is cinematic style writing usually bad? Is there any more examples. Thank you for the lesson and thank you for the Dan Brown example.
Is it in the movie or book of da vinci code that opening scene is a failure regarding to show don't tell? Can someone please elaborate on taking a few examples of da Vinci code where it has failed so?
This just popped up on my feed. You were a bit ahead of the 'show don't tell' backlash. Good job.
My main issue is that the instruction (and it's mainly given as an instruction) leads to terrible over-writing. Every example I have ever seen put forward as an argument in favour, replaced a simple action or thought with an overly-specific verbose dictionary-raid.
After careful thought (and a lot of coffee), I've come to the conclusion that telling is great to move the plot forward, and showing is good for slowing it down to draw attention to a scene, idea or action. This is unlikely to be an original thought, but I like it.
Could you explain more about cinematic style writing? Could you give some definitive characteristics? Is it just dialogue heavy, white room style writing? Is cinematic style writing usually bad? Is there any more examples. Thank you for the lesson and thank you for the Dan Brown example.
Great job, and Otto was a real star! :-)
Is it in the movie or book of da vinci code that opening scene is a failure regarding to show don't tell? Can someone please elaborate on taking a few examples of da Vinci code where it has failed so?
Kitty!
Your cats are cute.
Couldn't concentrate on what you were saying because of the plopping distractions :(
Show don't tell is four words. Not three.
Gabriele Simionato no it's not. A contraption is one word not two.