Next week, I am doing yet another writing class and one topic that I always talk about is how to show not tell in writing. Here is a very useful article that illustrates this concept with examples. This first part deals with how to add emotions into writing. A second part deals with the use of dialogue.
This blog is mostly about teaching and learning English. I am a teacher educator in Singapore and I write for teachers, parents and anyone else interested in English education particularly at the primary school level.
Sometimes I have the urge to write about stuff from my everyday life and tell stories from my childhood. I often give in to these urges. Nobody has to read everything here. But as Lionel Shriver once wrote,
" Untold stories didn't seem quite to have happened."Life does happen, so let the stories unfold...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Learn How to Show Not Tell: A Class in Writing Children’s Fiction
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