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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
#WritersCoffeeClub 18 June
Do you consciously apply show rather than tell in your writing?The advice to "show, don't tell" in genre fic was a corrective from the pulp era, which was renowned for mind-numbingly pointless lectures, frequently started by a cardboard cut-out character saying "tell me, professor …"
I try to show, but if I need an infodump I will infodump ruthlessly, because sometimes a bald paragraph of explanation can do the work of a thousand pages. Right tool for the job, etc.