Thank you, Emma. I find achieving a balance between Showing and Telling very difficult. It doesn't help that in some fiction-writing classes I've followed, the tutor wants too many adverbs, especially in speech tags - not you, of course, like "Mary pleaded" or Justin scoffed."
I think some readers - and so some tutors - will always want things made more explicit than others. I had an interesting conversation on social media the other day, about someone's sense that younger writers/editors/publishers/readers want things laid out more explicitly, and as a writer you can't rely on them to be interested if it isn't.
Thank you, Emma. I find achieving a balance between Showing and Telling very difficult. It doesn't help that in some fiction-writing classes I've followed, the tutor wants too many adverbs, especially in speech tags - not you, of course, like "Mary pleaded" or Justin scoffed."
I think some readers - and so some tutors - will always want things made more explicit than others. I had an interesting conversation on social media the other day, about someone's sense that younger writers/editors/publishers/readers want things laid out more explicitly, and as a writer you can't rely on them to be interested if it isn't.