Adam RobertsI blogged about show-don't-tell. Eccentric view, mine, I think (in the strict sense of the term): https://medium.com/adams-notebook/on-showing-not-telling-9ef276b05782
Stephen Cox Author@arrroberts boosted for interest in discussion.
Elbowpatch@stephenwhq @arrroberts
As a secondary school teacher I use the idea of 'showing not telling ' to get the younger students to focus on inference. Often in schools we teach simple, easy to grasp 'rules' which can be broken later, when they have the skills to see when and when not to abide by them. It's once they start breaking the 'rules' though that teaching gets more complex- oh to stop them using so many fragments in their prose...
As a secondary school teacher I use the idea of 'showing not telling ' to get the younger students to focus on inference. Often in schools we teach simple, easy to grasp 'rules' which can be broken later, when they have the skills to see when and when not to abide by them. It's once they start breaking the 'rules' though that teaching gets more complex- oh to stop them using so many fragments in their prose...